The application of multiview human body tracking on the example of hurdle clearance

Abstract

This initial research presents the multiview human body tracking method as a tool to measure hurdle clearance parameters. This study was conducted on high level hurdlers, who were members of the Polish national team. The video sequences were recorded by a multicamera system consisting of three 100 Hz Full HD cameras. The sequences were registered under the simulated starting conditions of a 110 m hurdles race. Kinematic parameters were estimated based on the analysis of images from the multicamera system. These parameters were compared with the parameters obtained from ground truth poses. Mean absolute error and mean relative error were selected as the quality criteria. The main advantage of the method presented here is that it does not need any special clothes, markers or the support of other estimation techniques.