Patent ID: 9098766
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A computer based method for estimating a pose of a human subject, the method comprising: receiving an image of the human subject; detecting a plurality of detected features of the human subject on the image, the detected features comprising representations of anatomical body parts on the human subject; determining that at least one undetected feature is missing or occluded based on the detected features; augmenting the detected features with at least one predicted feature to replace the at least one undetected feature, the at least one predicted feature generated using a previous pose estimated using a posture model and a previously received image; and estimating a pose of the human subject using the posture model, the posture model estimating the pose using the detected features, the at least one predicted feature, and a plurality of kinematic constraints, the posture model using an inverse kinematic computation configured to, for each of the expected features: