Computational Models of Human Movement

Computational Human Body Models

Computational human body models are widely used for automotive crash-safety research and design and as such have significantly contributed to a reduction of traffic injuries and fatalities. Currently crash simulations are mainly performed using models based on crash-dummies. However crash dummies differ significantly from the real human body and moreover crash dummies are only available for a l...

Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics

Object and scene recognition is one of the most essential functionalities of human vision. It is also of fundamental importance for machines to be able to learn and recognize meaningful objects and scenes. In this thesis, we explore the following four aspects of object and scene recognition. It is well known that humans can be “blind” even to major aspects of natural scenes when we attend elsew...

Development, validation, and sensitivity analyses of human eye movement models.

A, Why the Ocular Motor Systems? The ocular motor systems are ideal for studying the control of human movement. Eye movements are easy to measure, and the control of saccadic eye movements is simpler than the control of other neuromuscular systems. It is simpler because the load presented by the eyeball and extraocular tissues is small and constant. Horizontal eye movements offer a further simp...

Human Movement Analysis Based on Explicit Motion Models

Generation of human computational models with machine learning

Services in smart environments pursue to increase the quality of people’s lives. The most important issues when developing this kind of environments is testing and validating such services. These tasks usually imply high costs and annoying or unfeasible real-world test-ing. In such cases, artificial societies may be used to simulate the smart environment (i.e. physical environment, equipment an...