Will Grissom's Vision Page

University of Central Florida Summer 2001 Research Experience for Undergraduates

 

This summer, under the direction of Dr. Lobo and Dr. Shah at UCF, I am working on a computer vision system which will track a person dancing. The system will deduce basic 3D information about the position of the person's limbs and create customizable MIDI signals based on the person's movements for use in controlling electronic instruments and sound modules.

Current Results

Thus far I have implemented tracking of the head, hands and feet of the dancer. This tracking works for the first sixty or so frames of my data before failing. The red boxes around these limbs indicate where they have been found. I have also implemented best-fit lines over the detected skin areas, which appear as white lines within the green regions.

SSD Results:

http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~wgrissom/ssdgoofy.avi

Line-Proximity Results:

http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~wgrissom/orientproximity.avi

 

Here is a paper describing the method I used.

Here is the directory containing my source code:

http://eola.cs.ucf.edu/~wgrissom/

 

UCF Computer Vision Homepage:

http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~vision