Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: 5th International Conference, AMDO 2008, Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 9-11, 2008. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Inverse Kinematics Using Sequential Monte Carlo Methods....Pages 1-10
Estimation of Dense, Non-rigid Motion Fields from a Multi-camera Array Using a Hierarchical Mixture Model....Pages 11-21
Learning to Look at Humans — What Are the Parts of a Moving Body?....Pages 22-31
Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition in the Learned Hierarchical Latent Variable Space....Pages 32-41
Real-Time 3D Body Pose Tracking from Multiple 2D Images....Pages 42-52
Applying Space State Models in Human Action Recognition: A Comparative Study....Pages 53-62
Bone Glow: An Improved Method for the Assignment of Weights for Mesh Deformation....Pages 63-71
Analysis of Human Motion, Based on the Reduction of Multidimensional Captured Data – Application to Hand Gesture Compression, Segmentation and Synthesis....Pages 72-81
Exploiting Structural Hierarchy in Articulated Objects Towards Robust Motion Capture....Pages 82-91
Estimating Human Skeleton Parameters and Configuration in Real-Time from Markered Optical Motion Capture....Pages 92-101
Dealing with Self-occlusion in Region Based Motion Capture by Means of Internal Regions....Pages 102-111
Model-Based Analysis and Synthesis of Time-Varying Mesh....Pages 112-121
Mesh Vertex Pose and Position Interpolation Using Geometric Algebra....Pages 122-131
An Audiovisual Talking Head for Augmented Speech Generation: Models and Animations Based on a Real Speaker’s Articulatory Data....Pages 132-143
Towards Efficiency in Cloth Simulation....Pages 144-155
2D Articulated Body Tracking with Self-occultations Handling....Pages 156-165
A Two-Step Approach for Detecting Individuals within Dense Crowds....Pages 166-174
3D Modeling for Deformable Objects....Pages 175-187
Active-Vision System Reconfiguration for Form Recognition in the Presence of Dynamic Obstacles....Pages 188-207
View-Invariant Human Action Detection Using Component-Wise HMM of Body Parts....Pages 208-217
A Generative Model for Motion Synthesis and Blending Using Probability Density Estimation....Pages 218-227
Gestural Interaction Using Feature Classification....Pages 228-237
Predicting Missing Markers to Drive Real-Time Centre of Rotation Estimation....Pages 238-247
Accurate Human Motion Capture Using an Ergonomics-Based Anthropometric Human Model....Pages 248-258
A Deformable Surface Model with Volume Preserving Springs....Pages 259-268
Temporal Nearest End-Effectors for Real-Time Full-Body Human Actions Recognition....Pages 269-278
Fusing Edge Cues to Handle Colour Problems in Image Segmentation....Pages 279-288
Body-Part Templates for Recovery of 2D Human Poses under Occlusion....Pages 289-298
Autonomous Virtual Agents for Performance Evaluation of Tracking Algorithms....Pages 299-308
A Manipulable Vision-Based 3D Input Device for Space Curves....Pages 309-318
A Comparative Study on Using Zernike Velocity Moments and Hidden Markov Models for Hand Gesture Recognition....Pages 319-327
Deformable Volumetric Simplex Meshes....Pages 328-337
Analytical Simulation of B-Spline Surfaces Deformation....Pages 338-348
Apperance-Based Tracking and Face Identification in Video Sequences....Pages 349-358
Interactive Constrained Deformations of NURBS Surfaces: N-SCODEF....Pages 359-369
A 3D Shape Descriptor for Human Pose Recovery....Pages 370-379
Fast Detection and Modeling of Human-Body Parts from Monocular Video....Pages 380-389
Kinetic Pseudo-energy History for Human Dynamic Gestures Recognition....Pages 390-399
An Improved Algorithm for Estimating the ICA Model Concerning the Convergence Rate....Pages 400-408
Automatic Adjustment of Rigs to Extracted Skeletons....Pages 409-418
Real-Time Recognition of Human Gestures for 3D Interaction....Pages 419-430
Effective Emotional Classification Combining Facial Classifiers and User Assessment....Pages 431-440
Online and Offline Fingerprint Template Update Using Minutiae: An Experimental Comparison....Pages 441-448
Users with Disabilities: Maximum Control with Minimum Effort....Pages 449-456
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