Stereoscopic system for human body tracking in natural scenes

Human body detection and tracking in a scene constitutes a very active working field clue to their applicability to many areas, specially as a man-machine interface (MMI) means. The system presented aims to improve the reliability and efficiency of teleoperation. The system is of application to teleoperated manipulation in civil applications such as big robots in shipyards, mines, public works or even cranes. Image segmentation is performed from movement detection. The recognition of moving bodies is verified by means of a simplified articulated cylindrical model, thus allowing to operate with a low computational cost.