Camera System for Efficient non-contact Measurement in Distance Medicine

Patrik Kutilek, Jan Hejda, Lenka Lhotska, Jindrich Adolf, Jaromir Dolezal, Michaela Hourova, Pavel Kral, Yoram Segal, Raz Birman, Ofer Hadar

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Abstract

The posture of body segments can be negatively influenced by many diseases of the nervous, visual and musculoskeletal systems. This article outlines a newly designed system and related procedures to record and evaluate anatomical body angles. The system is equipped with two mutually calibrated cameras allowing the evaluation of body movement in two anatomical planes. The hardware part of the camera system and calibration method was designed for practical use in clinical practice. Moreover, the proposed camera system allows for the recording and evaluation of motion data in a home environment or at a safe distance. It enables non-invasive and non-contact measuring of body segments and, therefore, can be used in distance rehabilitation and distance diagnosing. The study also demonstrates the hardware's performance accelerator based on a human body tracking algorithm. The device utilizes the third party algorithms, such as OpenPose, for the extraction of major body points from selected video frames. Any missing data points are then interpolated through the proposed tracking algorithm. This procedure results in an acceleration of the overall hardware performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2020 19th International Conference on Mechatronics - Mechatronika, ME 2020
EditorsDusan Maga, Jiri Hajek
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728156019
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International Conference on Mechatronics - Mechatronika, ME 2020 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 2 Dec 20204 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2020 19th International Conference on Mechatronics - Mechatronika, ME 2020

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Mechatronics - Mechatronika, ME 2020
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period2/12/204/12/20

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.

Funding

ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was done in the framework of research project LTAIZ19008 - VES19 Israel inter-excellence, sponsored by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic).

FundersFunder number
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy

    Keywords

    • OpenPose
    • body movements
    • camera calibration
    • distance medicine
    • joint angles
    • posture
    • tracking

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