A Technique for Human Upper Body Parts Movement Tracking

Abstract

In this digital world, technology mainly revolves around multimedia content, which is massive. The existing techniques are inadequate to capture the movement of the human upper body parts in real-time. Therefore, a system is urgently required to track the human upper body parts movements from image and video content. The Viola–Jones algorithm based on a novel technique is proposed to detect upper body parts like the eyes and face in this work. Moreover, a face tracking algorithm is employed to track the movement of the upper body parts in real-time. The proposed model improves 13%, 18%, and 10% accuracy for face, eye, and body on Grimace dataset, Face94 Dataset, and Milborrow University of Cape Town (MUCT) dataset, respectively. Furthermore, it is also tested directly on the MATLAB software on a new image or Cam video. It takes less than 25 milliseconds per frame; hence, applicable for real-time applications.

Keywords:

• Computer vision
• Eye detection
• Face detection
• Image processing
• Upper-body parts detection
• Viola–Jones algorithm

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1 http://www.milbo.org/muct/ [Accessed on 15 January 2021]

2 https://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/∼spacelib/faces/faces94.html [Accessed on 10 February 2021]

3 https://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/∼spacelib/faces/grimace.html [Accessed on 20 February 2021]

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Krishan Kumar

Krishan Kumar received the PhD degree and the MTech degree in computer science and engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India, in 2014 and 2019, respectively. He is currently an assistant professor and head with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand, India. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 technical research papers in top-tier conferences and journals including IEEE Transactions. His research interests include cloud computing, virtualization, machine learning, deep learning, big data analytics, bioinformatics, NLP, and cyber-security. Dr Kumar is currently the Editor for the IETE Journal of Research. He is also the TPC Chair and member of various international conferences such as IEEE CICT 2020, IAPR CVIP2020. He was the recipient of the Best Papers Award from IAPR PReMI 2017.

Abhya Mishra

Abhay Mishra is pursuing MTech degree in artificial intelligence specialization in the Dept of CSE from NIT Uttarakhand. His research interests include image processing, video analysis and summarization, object detection. Email: [email protected]

Sanjay Dahiya

Sanjay Dahiya is working as associate professor and head in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ch Devi Lal State Institute of Engineering and Technology Panniwala Mota (Sirsa) – Haryana, India. He is PhD (2013) in computer science and engineering from Ch Devi Lal University, Sirsa- Haryana, India. He has obtained his MTech (Computer Science and Engineering) in 2001 from Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, India. His areas of interest are software testing, database system, system simulation, operating system, design of algorithm & analysis, implementation of information and communication technology in various fields. He is having over 50 research papers publications in international/ national journals and conferences. He is also Member of Editorial Advisory Board of international journal of computer science. He reviews many research papers for international journals, project proposal/ project completion report, national/ international conference/ workshop/ seminar, etc. He has over 20 years of teaching, research and administrative experience. Email: [email protected]

Ajay Kumar

Ajay Kumar AGM, BSNL, Jharkhand Telecom Circle is presently also the Faculty Head of Broadband and Access Technology at Advance Regional Telecom Training Centre (ARTTC) Jharkhand Telecom Circle Ranchi retiring from services 1st Feb 2020 under organization's VRS Scheme. He received the engineering degree in electronics & communication (AMIETE) and MTech in comp science from IETE New Delhi. Subsequently, he obtained post graduate degree in computer applications (PGDCA). Presently, he is perusing PhD computer science degree from Usha Martin University, Ranchi, Jharkhand. His fields of interest include – data communication, broadband and access technology, VLSI Design. He has delivered number of lectures on broadband technologies, NGN, VLSI design for ESDM, NIB, switching, transmission, mobile technologies. He is a member of IETE Governing Council for his second term (2023–26). He is a member of professional societies like, Fellow- Institution of Electronics and Telecom Engineers; Member of VLSI Society of India; and Founder Member of Indian Society for VLSI Education. Email: [email protected]