Muhammad S. Alam^1,5,*, Farhan B. Mohamed^1,3, Ali Selamat², Faruk Ahmed⁴, AKM B. Hossain^6,7

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.39, No.3, pp. 417-436, 2024, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2024.051999

Abstract Real-time indoor camera localization is a significant problem in indoor robot navigation and surveillance systems. The scene can change during the image sequence and plays a vital role in the localization performance of robotic applications in terms of accuracy and speed. This research proposed a real-time indoor camera localization system based on a recurrent neural network that detects scene change during the image sequence. An annotated image dataset trains the proposed system and predicts the camera pose in real-time. The system mainly improved the localization performance of indoor cameras by more accurately predicting the camera More >

Yunfeng Cai¹, Ran Qin¹, Jin Tang¹, Long Zhang¹, Xiaotian Bi¹, Qing Yang^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4979-4994, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050435

Abstract Electric power training is essential for ensuring the safety and reliability of the system. In this study, we introduce a novel Abnormal Action Recognition (AAR) system that utilizes a Lightweight Pose Estimation Network (LPEN) to efficiently and effectively detect abnormal fall-down and trespass incidents in electric power training scenarios. The LPEN network, comprising three stages—MobileNet, Initial Stage, and Refinement Stage—is employed to swiftly extract image features, detect human key points, and refine them for accurate analysis. Subsequently, a Pose-aware Action Analysis Module (PAAM) captures the positional coordinates of human skeletal points in each frame. Finally, More >

Chanho Park¹, Takefumi Ogawa^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.2, pp. 3047-3065, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048901

Abstract Six degrees of freedom (6DoF) input interfaces are essential for manipulating virtual objects through translation or rotation in three-dimensional (3D) space. A traditional outside-in tracking controller requires the installation of expensive hardware in advance. While inside-out tracking controllers have been proposed, they often suffer from limitations such as interaction limited to the tracking range of the sensor (e.g., a sensor on the head-mounted display (HMD)) or the need for pose value modification to function as an input interface (e.g., a sensor on the controller). This study investigates 6DoF pose estimation methods without restricting the tracking… More >

Lingling Chen^1,2,*, Tong Liu¹, Zhuo Gong¹, Ding Wang¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.2, pp. 321-339, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037865

Abstract Human pose estimation is a basic and critical task in the field of computer vision that involves determining the position (or spatial coordinates) of the joints of the human body in a given image or video. It is widely used in motion analysis, medical evaluation, and behavior monitoring. In this paper, the authors propose a method for multi-view human pose estimation. Two image sensors were placed orthogonally with respect to each other to capture the pose of the subject as they moved, and this yielded accurate and comprehensive results of three-dimensional (3D) motion reconstruction that… More >

Sangeeta Yadav¹, Preeti Gulia^1,*, Nasib Singh Gill^1,*, Piyush Kumar Shukla², Arfat Ahmad Khan³, Sultan Alharby⁴, Ahmed Alhussen⁴, Mohd Anul Haq⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 1253-1274, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042869

Abstract Inpatient falls from beds in hospitals are a common problem. Such falls may result in severe injuries. This problem can be addressed by continuous monitoring of patients using cameras. Recent advancements in deep learning-based video analytics have made this task of fall detection more effective and efficient. Along with fall detection, monitoring of different activities of the patients is also of significant concern to assess the improvement in their health. High computation-intensive models are required to monitor every action of the patient precisely. This requirement limits the applicability of such networks. Hence, to keep the… More >

Pengxin Li¹, Rong Wang^1,2,*, Wenjing Zhang¹, Yinuo Liu¹, Chenyue Xu¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.3, pp. 2239-2255, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.030677

Abstract Human pose estimation aims to localize the body joints from image or video data. With the development of deep learning, pose estimation has become a hot research topic in the field of computer vision. In recent years, human pose estimation has achieved great success in multiple fields such as animation and sports. However, to obtain accurate positioning results, existing methods may suffer from large model sizes, a high number of parameters, and increased complexity, leading to high computing costs. In this paper, we propose a new lightweight feature encoder to construct a high-resolution network that… More >

Shaohua Li, Haixiang Zhang^*, Hanjie Ma, Jie Feng, Mingfeng Jiang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3379-3392, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.041538

Abstract Scale variation is a major challenge in multi-person pose estimation. In scenes where persons are present at various distances, models tend to perform better on larger-scale persons, while the performance for smaller-scale persons often falls short of expectations. Therefore, effectively balancing the persons of different scales poses a significant challenge. So this paper proposes a new multi-person pose estimation model called FSA Net to improve the model’s performance in complex scenes. Our model utilizes High-Resolution Network (HRNet) as the backbone and feeds the outputs of the last stage’s four branches into the DCB module. The More >

Sani Salisu^1,2, A. S. A. Mohamed^1,*, M. H. Jaafar³, Ainun S. B. Pauzi¹, Hussain A. Younis^1,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.2, pp. 2385-2400, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035904

Abstract In this article, a comprehensive survey of deep learning-based (DL-based) human pose estimation (HPE) that can help researchers in the domain of computer vision is presented. HPE is among the fastest-growing research domains of computer vision and is used in solving several problems for human endeavours. After the detailed introduction, three different human body modes followed by the main stages of HPE and two pipelines of two-dimensional (2D) HPE are presented. The details of the four components of HPE are also presented. The keypoints output format of two popular 2D HPE datasets and the most More >

Jian Kang¹, Wanshu Fan¹, Yijing Li², Rui Liu¹, Dongsheng Zhou^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.1, pp. 607-629, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.024420

Abstract With the advancement of image sensing technology, estimating 3D human pose from monocular video has become a hot research topic in computer vision. 3D human pose estimation is an essential prerequisite for subsequent action analysis and understanding. It empowers a wide spectrum of potential applications in various areas, such as intelligent transportation, human-computer interaction, and medical rehabilitation. Currently, some methods for 3D human pose estimation in monocular video employ temporal convolutional network (TCN) to extract inter-frame feature relationships, but the majority of them suffer from insufficient inter-frame feature relationship extractions. In this paper, we decompose… More >

Jia-Yu Liang¹, Hong-Bo Zhang^1,*, Qing Lei², Ji-Xiang Du³, Tian-Liang Lin⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3243-3256, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.035812

Abstract Monocular 6D pose estimation is a functional task in the field of computer vision and robotics. In recent years, 2D-3D correspondence-based methods have achieved improved performance in multiview and depth data-based scenes. However, for monocular 6D pose estimation, these methods are affected by the prediction results of the 2D-3D correspondences and the robustness of the perspective-n-point (PnP) algorithm. There is still a difference in the distance from the expected estimation effect. To obtain a more effective feature representation result, edge enhancement is proposed to increase the shape information of the object by analyzing the influence… More >