A review of silhouette extraction algorithms for use within visual hull pipelines

G Ascenso, MH Yap, T Allen, SS Choppin… - Computer Methods in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Markerless motion capture would permit the study of human biomechanics in environments
where marker-based systems are impractical, eg outdoors or underwater. The visual hull …

A comparative analysis using silhouette extraction methods for dynamic objects in monocular vision

MRM Hasan, NHS Alani - Cloud Computing and Data Science, 2022 - ojs.wiserpub.com
Moving or dynamic object analysis continues to be an increasingly active research field in
computer vision with many types of research investigating different methods for motion …

Using synthetic data for planning, development and evaluation of shape-from-silhouette based human motion capture methods

RH Bakken - International Symposium on Visual Computing, 2012 - Springer
The shape-from-silhouette approach has been popular in computer vision-based human
motion analysis. For the results to be accurate, a certain number of cameras are required …

N-tuple color segmentation for multi-view silhouette extraction

A Djelouah, JS Franco, E Boyer, F Le Clerc… - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2012 - Springer
We present a new method to extract multiple segmentations of an object viewed by multiple
cameras, given only the camera calibration. We introduce the n-tuple color model to express …

[PDF][PDF] Silhouette extraction

B Gooch - Course Notes for Theory and Practice of Non …, 2003 - Citeseer
In computer graphics, silhouette finding and rendering has a central role in a growing
number of applications. The silhouette is the simplest form of line art and is used in cartoons …

Shape from silhouette using Dempster–Shafer theory

L Díaz-Más, R Muñoz-Salinas, FJ Madrid-Cuevas… - Pattern Recognition, 2010 - Elsevier
This work proposes a novel shape from silhouette (SfS) algorithm using the Dempster–
Shafer (DS) theory for dealing with inconsistent silhouettes. Standard SfS methods makes …

Silhouette extraction in hough space

M Olson, H Zhang - Computer Graphics Forum, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Object‐space silhouette extraction is an important problem in fields ranging from non‐
photorealistic computer graphics to medical robotics. We present an efficient silhouette …

Evaluation of unsupervised segmentation algorithms for silhouette extraction in human action video sequences

A Martínez-Usó, G Salgues, SA Velastin - … 9-11, 2011, Proceedings, Part I …, 2011 - Springer
The main motivation of this work is to find and evaluate solutions for generating binary
masks (silhouettes) of foreground targets in an automatic way. To this end, four renowned …

Synthesis of silhouettes and visual hull reconstruction for articulated humans

Z Yue, R Chellappa - IEEE transactions on multimedia, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a complete framework for improved synthesis and understanding
of the human pose from a limited number of silhouette images. It combines the active image …

Silhouette extraction of a human body based on fusion of HOG and graph-cut segmentation in dynamic backgrounds

ND Lakshmi, YM Latha, A Damodaram - 2013 - IET
In this paper we presents a novel and effective way for extracting a region based silhouette
of a human with a moving background thereby facilitating subsequent analysis like action …