Estimating Anthropometric Marker Locations from 3-D LADAR Point Clouds

An area of interest for improving the identification portion of the system is in extracting anthropometric markers from a Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) point cloud. Analyzing anthropometrics markers is a common means of studying how a human moves and has been shown to provide good results in d...

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Main Author: Maier, Matthew J
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ALGORITHMS
ANTHROPOMETRIC MARKER EXTRACTION
BODY SCANS
CAESAR DATABASE
CAESAR(CIVILIAN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SURFACE ANTHROPOMETRY RESOURCE)
Cybernetics
DISMOUNT CHARACTERIZATION
FACTOR ANALYSIS
HUMAN BODY
Optical Detection and Detectors
OPTICAL RADAR
PCA(PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS)
PERSONNEL DETECTION
SOM(SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS)
Target Direction, Range and Position Finding
TARGET DISCRIMINATION
THESES
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Summary:An area of interest for improving the identification portion of the system is in extracting anthropometric markers from a Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) point cloud. Analyzing anthropometrics markers is a common means of studying how a human moves and has been shown to provide good results in determining certain demographic information about the subject. This research examines a marker extraction method utilizing principal component analysis (PCA), self-organizing maps (SOM), alpha hulls, and basic anthropometric knowledge. The performance of the extraction algorithm is tested by performing gender classification with the calculated markers. The original document contains color images.