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Doctoral researcher Mechanical Engineering Department Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
ContactMailing addressMechanical Engineering Department - PMA Division Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Celestijnenlaan 300B postbusnr.: 2420 B-3001 Leuven, Belgium Contact info koen_dot_buys_at_mech_dot_kuleuven_dot_be Phone: ++32 16 32 80 59 Office: 01.053 |
Research
Real-time markerless motion analysis with an active camera system. In this project the human motion is analysed in real-time with visual input of a camera system without the need of placing markers on the person. This algorithm will be extended with a specific active camera system. The project is divided in packages: We start with a literature studie to analyse the current 'state-of-the-art' in the different domains. The image-processing package searchs for suitable visual patterns to do person-detection and extraction. It also looks into which possibilities there exist externally to aid this process. The motion-analysis/modelling package is divided in two parts, the first constructs a kinematic and dynamic motionmodel of a human. It will search for a balance in the contradicting relation between a person-based model that implements as much features as possible and a model that keeps the dimensionality low. The second part reconstructs the person based on the data of the image-processing. In the package of the camerasystem we look into the different mechanical, optical and/or software alternatives there are to simplify or accelerate the real-time implementation. The embedded and real-time visualisation package handles both the translation of the algorithm to an embedded system and handles also the useability of the user-interface. Implementation and validation happens with two case-studies: the first is the gait-analysis of revalidating persons and the second is the cooperation between a flexible industrial robotassistent and a human. 
The economical finality of the research is both in the medical sector as in industrial implementations. In the medical sector we think of improving the ergonomics in a gait-analysis lab, the guidance of revalidating people and to support the construction of better orthoses. In the industrial sector the research closely relates to the strategic research agenda put up by the European Industry in the fields of: human-machine interaction, learning by example, security of robots working in a close environment with humans. The research is promoted by Prof. H. Bruyninckx of the Department of Mechanical Eng. on the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. In a close relationship with research done at the Department of Revalidation sciences. |
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