Human Posture Recognition Based on Images Captured by the Kinect Sensor

In this paper we combine several image processing techniques with the depth images captured by a Kinect sensor to successfully recognize the five distinct human postures of sitting, standing, stooping, kneeling, and lying. The proposed recognition procedure first uses background subtraction on the d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wen-June Wang, Jun-Wei Chang, Shih-Fu Haung, Rong-Jyue Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-03-01
Series:International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5772/62163