Rodrigues, Thiago Braga ORCID: 0000-0002-2017-4492, Ó Catháin, Ciarán ORCID: 0000-0002-8526-8924, Devine, Declan ORCID: 0000-0002-1364-5583, Moran, Kieran ORCID: 0000-0003-2015-8967, O'Connor, Noel E. ORCID: 0000-0002-4033-9135 and Murray, Niall ORCID: 0000-0002-5919-0596 (2019) An evaluation of a 3D multimodal marker-less motion analysis system. In: ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2019 (MMSys’19), 18 - 21 June, 2019, Amherst, MA, USA. ISBN 978-1-4503-6297-9
Abstract
Motion analysis is a technique used by clinicians (among many
others) that quantifies human movement by using camera-based
systems. Marker-based motion analysis systems have been used
across a variety of application domains, from Interactive 3D TeleImmersion (i3DTI) environments to the diagnosis of
neuromuscular and musculoskeletal diseases. Although such
analysis is performed in several laboratories in many countries,
numerous issues exist: (1) the high cost of precise motion capture
systems; (2) scarcity of qualified personnel to operate them; (3)
expertise required to interpret their results; (4) space requirements
to install and store these systems; (5) complexity in terms of
measurement protocol required for such systems; (6) limited
availability; (7) and in some situations the use of markers means
they are unsuitability for certain clinical use cases (e.g. for patients
recovering from orthopaedic surgery). In this paper, we present,
from a system perspective, an alternative, cheaper, and more
accessible system for motion analysis. The ultimate aim is to use
the output of this multimodal marker-less system as part of an
immersive multimedia gait re-education tool. In real-time, it will
advise the user on their gait performance (as well as potentially
providing accurate clinical data to clinicians). With the initial focus
on the capture system, we have developed and evaluated a novel
multimodal system which integrates Multiple Microsoft Kinects
(which employ RGB-D cameras) with multiple Shimmer Inertial
Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors. We have compared this system
with the VICON system (the gold standard in motion capture). Our
marker-less motion capture system combines data from 4 skeletons
generating 3D and complete 360 degrees in view skeleton. The
system combines unit quaternions from each Kinect joint with
quaternions from 4 inertial measurement units to promote
integration. We used our system to measure 3D points of 12 joints
from the Kinect fused skeleton and flexion-extension angles of the
knee and hip in a walking trial in 8 participants with 8-10 trials per
participant. The analysis found component similarity of 0.97 for
knee angles and 0.98 for hip angles. These results show that our
system, through combination of Multi Kinect system and Shimmer
IMUs, offers a cheaper, sufficiently accurate and more accessible
human motion analysis system
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Motion capture; marker-less, inertial sensors; 3D Model; Multimodal data fusion; GAIT Re-education; Immersive Multimedia |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Interactive computer systems Computer Science > Multimedia systems |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science and Health > School of Health and Human Performance Research Initiatives and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics |
Published in: | Proceedings of ACM Multimedia System Conference (MMSys’19). . ACM. ISBN 978-1-4503-6297-9 |
Publisher: | ACM |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3304109.3306236 |
Copyright Information: | © 2019 Association for Computing Machinery |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland grant number SFI/12/RC/2289 and SFI/12/RC/3918., Irish Research Council under grant GOIPG/2017/803 |
ID Code: | 22993 |
Deposited On: | 20 Feb 2019 09:50 by Noel Edward O'connor . Last Modified 19 Oct 2020 12:19 |
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