Single person pose recognition and tracking

Abstract

The goal of this thesis is to research detection and tracking of a single person with just one camera and recognize and track human poses in order to improve the performance of an interactive spatial game that uses the horizontal position of the person and the performed poses for its control. Of course the results achieved with this research are not attached to this application only but to any application that can be imagined for using human poses detection as input. The use of one single camera restricts considerably the depth information and it is more challenging for detection and tracking when self occlusions occur but, on the other hand, it has the advantage that you only need a simple camera to run applications of this kind so it is interesting for commercial use on laptops or personal computers with a web camera. These types of games controlled by human poses can develop physical aptitudes and coordination while having fun playing with them and also re lieves you from the load of holding a mouse or stick; it is just you and the screen.