Motion Tracker: Camera-Based Monitoring of Bodily Movements Using Motion Silhouettes.

ABSTRACT: Researchers in the cognitive and affective sciences investigate how thoughts and feelings are reflected in the bodily response systems including peripheral physiology, facial features, and body movements. One specific question along this line of research is how cognition and affect are manifested in the dynamics of general body movements. Progress in this area can be accelerated by inexpensive, non-intrusive, portable, scalable, and easy to calibrate movement tracking systems. Towards this end, this paper presents and validates Motion Tracker, a simple yet effective software program that uses established computer vision techniques to estimate the amount a person moves from a video of the person engaged in a task (available for download from http://jakory.com/motion-tracker/). The system wo

SUBMITTER: Kory Westlund J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4472690 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature