Human motion analysis and simulation tools: a survey

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

João F. Nunes (Author) FEUP; Pedro M. Moreira (Author) Other; João Manuel R. S. Tavares (Author) FEUP

Book

Title: Handbook of Research on Computational Simulation and Modeling in Engineering

Pages: 356-386

ISBN: 978-146668824-7

Indexing

Scopus - 6 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00K-634

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8823-0.ch012

Abstract (EN): Computational systems to identify objects represented in image sequences and tracking their motion in a fully automatic manner, enabling a detailed analysis of the involved motion and its simulation are extremely relevant in several fields of our society. In particular, the analysis and simulation of the human motion has a wide spectrum of relevant applications with a manifest social and economic impact. In fact, usage of human motion data is fundamental in a broad number of domains (e.g.: sports, rehabilitation, robotics, surveillance, gesture-based user interfaces, etc.). Consequently, many relevant engineering software applications have been developed with the purpose of analyzing and/or simulating the human motion. This chapter presents a detailed, broad and up to date survey on motion simulation and/or analysis software packages that have been developed either by the scientific community or commercial entities. Moreover, a main contribution of this chapter is an effective framework to classify and compare motion simulation and analysis tools.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 30