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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2011
Marcel Germann, Zurich, CH;
Stephan Wuermlin Stadler, Zurich, CH;
Richard Keiser, Zurich, CH;
Remo Ziegler, Uster, CH;
Christoph Niederberger, Basel, CH;
Alexander Hornung, Zurich, CH;
Marcus Gross, Uster, CH;
Marcel Germann, Zurich, CH;
Stephan Wuermlin Stadler, Zurich, CH;
Richard Keiser, Zurich, CH;
Remo Ziegler, Uster, CH;
Christoph Niederberger, Basel, CH;
Alexander Hornung, Zurich, CH;
Marcus Gross, Uster, CH;
Liberovision AG, Zurich, CH;
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for estimating a pose of an articulated object model that is a computer basedD model of a real world object observed by one or more source cameras, including the steps of obtaining a source image from a video stream; processing the source image to extract a source image segment maintaining, in a database, a set of reference silhouettes, each being associated with an articulated object model and a corresponding reference pose; comparing the source image segment to the reference silhouettes and selecting reference silhouettes by taking into account, for each reference silhouette, a matching error that indicates how closely the reference silhouette matches the source image segment retrieving the corresponding reference poses of the articulated object models; and computing an estimate of the pose of the articulated object model from the reference poses of the selected reference silhouettes.