The PhD-home page of

Thomas Baltzer Moeslund


In the spring of 1998 I started on my Ph.D. within the area of computer vision-based human motion capture. The thesis was finished in the spring of 2003 and I successfully defended it in June 2003. The final version of the thesis was printed in October 2003 and can be download  here. As it is 279 pages (6.9MB) I have separated it into chapters so you can download only the parts that interests you, see table below. Comments are always welcome.



Title page, preface, table of contents etc. Chapter 1: Introduction

A brief introduction is presented together with
an overview of the different chapters
This part also lists the papers that came out of my Ph.D-study.
Chapter 2: Motion Capture and interaction.

Describes different motion capture devices and how motion capture
can be used in interaction.
Chapter 3: Survey

A comprehensive survey on computer vision-based motion capture
Chapter 4: Compact state-space representation

Surveys different state-space representations of the human arm and defines a new and very compact representation
Chapter 5: Pruning

The new state-space representation is pruned significantly by introducing intrinsic and extrinsic constraints
Chapter 6: Pose estimation of shoulder

Describes how the pose of the shoulder can be estimated
Chapter 7: Pose estimation of a human arm

Describes a system that uses the pruned and
compact state-space representation to estimate the pose of a human arm.
Chapter 8: Pose estimation utilising Sequential Monte Carlo technique

Continues the work from chapter 7 by including a Sequential Monte Carlo tracking framework

Chapter 9: Conclusion


Appendices
Back cover of the thesis