Development of Vision-based Human Motion Measurement Systems

碩士 === 長庚大學 === 醫療機電工程研究所 === 96 === Motion captures are techniques of measuring and recording human torso motions in digital representations. The motion capture systems can be used to recording and analyzing motions of athletes or rehabilitation patients as well as producing movies and 3D games. Th...

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Main Authors: Jian-Hong Shih, 施建宏
Other Authors: C. T. Chian
Format: Others
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64071277584377474411
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Summary:碩士 === 長庚大學 === 醫療機電工程研究所 === 96 === Motion captures are techniques of measuring and recording human torso motions in digital representations. The motion capture systems can be used to recording and analyzing motions of athletes or rehabilitation patients as well as producing movies and 3D games. Therefore, the motion capture system is an important research topic. According to the importance of the motion capture system, this work develops a stereoscopic vision based human motion measurement system. A stereoscopic vision module is configured with two parallel CCD cameras, and they are used to capture the images of humans. The image processing and recognition techniques are further used to identify the image coordinates of all active orange markers which are mounted on the joints of human torsos. At the same time, the identity of each marker is traced in terms of comparing two sequential images frames in the time domain. Finally, the spatial coordinates of all markers are calculated via corresponded markers in two image coordinates. At the same time, a 3D graphical library of OpenGL is used to display the torso plot of humans. On the other hand, this work also implements a remote motion representation system using the windows socket libraries to provide online investigations of motions for remote users such as physicians and therapists. Consequently, the works in this thesis consist of a stereoscopic image capture platform, a 3D coordinate positioning module for spatial markers, a motion measurement module, remote 3D torso representation module, and finally system integration, test and evaluation. In the future, the proposed system may combine with mobiles robots to serve as a remote motion measurement platform for distance rehabilitations.