Main description:

This is the first book which informs about recent progress in biomechanics, computer vision and computer graphics - all in one volume. Researchers from these areas have contributed to this book to promote the establishment of human motion research as a multi-facetted discipline and to improve the exchange of ideas and concepts between these three areas. The book combines carefully written reviews with detailed reports on recent progress in research.

Contents:

2D Tracking.- Understanding Human Motion: A Historic Review.- The Role of Manifold Learning in Human Motion Analysis.- Recognition of Action as a Bayesian Parameter Estimation Problem over Time.- The William Harvey Code: Mathematical Analysis of Optical Flow Computation for Cardiac Motion.- Detection and Tracking of Humans in Single View Sequences Using 2D Articulated Model.- Learning.- Combining Discrete and Continuous 3D Trackers.- Graphical Models for Human Motion Modelling.- 3D Human Motion Analysis in Monocular Video: Techniques and Challenges.- Spatially and Temporally Segmenting Movement to Recognize Actions.- Topologically Constrained Isometric Embedding.- 2D-3D Tracking.- Contours, Optic Flow, and Prior Knowledge: Cues for Capturing 3D Human Motion in Videos.- Tracking Clothed People.- An Introduction to Interacting Simulated Annealing.- Motion Capture for Interaction Environments.- Markerless Motion Capture for Biomechanical Applications.- Biomechanics and Applications.- Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects of Movement: The Discrepancy Between Clinical Gait Analysis and Activities of Daily Life.- Optimization of Human Motion Exemplified with Handbiking by Means of Motion Analysis and Musculoskeletal Models.- Imitation Learning and Transferring of Human Movement and Hand Grasping to Adapt to Environment Changes.- Accurate and Model-free Pose Estimation of Crash Test Dummies.- Modelling and Animation.- A Relational Approach to Content-based Analysis of Motion Capture Data.- The Representation of Rigid Body Motions in the Conformal Model of Geometric Algebra.- Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People.- Interacting Deformable Objects.- From Performance Theory to Character Animation Tools.