AbstractEstimating 3D human pose and shape from 2D images is a crucial yet challenging task. While prior methods with model-based representations can perform reasonably well on whole-body images, they often fail when parts of the body are occluded or outside frame. Moreover, these results usually do not faithfully capture silhouettes due to their limited representation power deformable models (...

The design of the canopy utilizes conventional rigid body mechanisms which is vulnerable to presence backlash, friction joints or wearing mechanical parts lead short product life. Compliant are employed reduce these problems, owing their zero-joint and monolithic structure. A reference for was chosen modified through reviewing different patent designs. Six configurations pseudo-rigid-body model...

Computer perception of biological motion is key to developing convenient and powerful human-computer interfaces. Successful body tracking algorithms have been developed; however, initialization is done by hand. We propose a method for detecting a moving human body and for labeling its parts automatically. It is based on maximizing the joint probability density function (PDF) of the position and...

Rupture of the volar parts of the capsules of the finger joints has now been defined as a nosological entity within the group of subcutaneous lesions of the fingers. It has not been possible on the basis merely ofstudies ofthe literature to arrive at any satisfactory understanding of the correlation between anatomical conditions and clinical findings in such capsular ruptures. The object of the...

Migration of the Pachycondyla marginata ant is significantly oriented at 13 degrees with respect to the geomagnetic north-south axis. On the basis of previous magnetic measurements of individual parts of the body (antennae, head, thorax and abdomen), the antennae were suggested to host a magnetoreceptor. In order to identify Fe(3+)/Fe(2+) sites in antennae tissue, we used light microscopy on Pr...

INTRODUCTION The shoulder is probably one of the most complex joint mechanisms of the human body. The shoulder consists of four bony elements: Thorax, clavicle, scapula and humerus. The connection thorax-claviclescapula is a closed chain. Due to the closed chain, the rotational and translational degrees of freedom of the scapula and clavicle are constrained, meaning that not every orientation c...

We study the joint recognition problem, which asks for the identification and classification of kinematic joints from a geometric constraint system. By laying the foundation for a rigidity-theoretic study of flexible body-and-cad frameworks, we obtain an O(n) algorithm for identifying prismatic and revolute joints relative to a specific body and an O(n) algorithm for finding all pair-wise joint...