Visual Analysis of Human Motion: A Survey on Recent Advances and Applications

Abstract

This paper summarizes the recent progress in human motion analysis and its applications. The first part of this paper reviews the motion capture systems and the representations of human's motion data. Next, the paper sketches the advanced human motion data processing technologies, including motion data filtering, temporal alignment, and segmentation. The following parts overview the state-of-the-art approaches of action recognition and dynamics measuring. The last part discusses the emerging applications of human motion analysis in healthcare and human robot interaction. The promising research topics of human motion analysis in the future are also summarized in the last part.