• A new approach for multi-view gait recognition on unconstrained paths 

      Madrid-Cuevas, F.J.; Carmona Poyato, Ángel; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Medina-Carnicer, R.; López-Fernández, D. (2017)
      Direction changes cause di culties for most of the gait recognition systems, due to appearance changes. We propose a new approach for multi-view gait recognition, which focuses on recognizing people walking on unconstrained ...
    • Comparing Evolutionary Algorithms and Particle Filters for Markerless Human Motion Capture 

      Yeguas-Bolívar, Enrique; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Medina-Carnicer, R.; Carmona Poyato, Ángel (Elsevier, 2014)
      Markerless Human Motion Capture is the problem of determining the joints’ angles of a three-dimensional articulated body model that best matches current and past observations acquired by video cameras. The problem of ...
    • Entropy Volumes for Viewpoint Independent Gait Recognition 

      Medina-Carnicer, R.; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; López-Fernández, D.; Madrid-Cuevas, F.J.; Carmona Poyato, Ángel (2017-02-17)
      Gait as biometrics has been widely used for human identi cation. However, direction changes cause di culties for most of the gait recognition systems, due to appearance changes. This study presents an e cient multi-view ...
    • Fiducial objects: custom design and evaluation 

      García-Ruíz, Pablo; Romero Ramírez, Francisco J.; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Marín-Jiménez, M.J.; Medina-Carnicer, R. (MDPI, 2023)
      Camera pose estimation is vital in fields like robotics, medical imaging, and augmented reality. Fiducial markers, specifically ArUco and Apriltag, are preferred for their efficiency. However, their accuracy and viewing ...
    • Fisher Motion Descriptor for Multiview Gait Recognition 

      Castro, F.M.; Muñoz Salinas, Rafael; Guil, N.; Marín-Jiménez, M.J. (2017)
      The goal of this paper is to identify individuals by analyzing their gait. Instead of using binary silhouettes as input data (as done in many previous works) we propose and evaluate the use of motion descriptors based on ...
    • Human interaction categorization by using audio-visual cues 

      Marín-Jiménez, M.J.; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Yeguas-Bolívar, Enrique; Pérez de la Blanca, N. (Springer Nature, 2013)
      Human Interaction Recognition (HIR) in uncontrolled TV video material is a very challenging problem because of the huge intra-class variability of the classes (due to large differences in the way actions are performed, ...
    • Keypoint descriptor fusion with Dempster-Shafer Theory 

      Mondéjar Guerra, Víctor Manuel; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Marín-Jiménez, M.J.; Carmona Poyato, Ángel; Medina-Carnicer, R. (2017)
      Keypoint matching is the task of accurately nding the location of a scene point in two images. Many keypoint descriptors have been proposed in the literature aiming at providing robustness against scale, translation and ...
    • Mixing body-parts model for 2D human pose estimation in stereo videos 

      López-Quintero, Manuel I.; Marín-Jiménez, M.J.; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Medina-Carnicer, R. (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017)
      This study targets 2D articulated human pose estimation (i.e. localisation of body limbs) in stereo videos. Although in recent years depth-based devices (e.g. Microsoft Kinect) have gained popularity, as they perform very ...
    • Multi-view gait recognition on curved 

      López-Fernández, D.; Madrid-Cuevas, F.J.; Carmona Poyato, Ángel; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Medina-Carnicer, R. (2017-12-11)
      Appearance changes due to viewing angle changes cause difficulties for most of the gait recognition methods. In this paper, we propose a new approach for multi-view recognition, which allows to recognize people walking on ...
    • Optimal online time-series segmentation 

      Carmona Poyato, Ángel; Fernández García, Nicolás Luis; Madrid-Cuevas, F.J.; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Romero Ramírez, Francisco J. (Springer, 2024)
      When time series are processed, the difficulty increases with the size of the series. This fact is aggravated when time series are processed online, since their size increases indefinitely. Therefore, reducing their number ...
    • Parallelization Strategies for Markerless Human Motion Capture 

      Cano, Alberto; Yeguas-Bolívar, Enrique; Medina-Carnicer, R.; Ventura Soto, S.; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael (2015-10-15)
      Markerless Motion Capture (MMOCAP) is the problem of determining the pose of a person from images captured by one or several cameras simultaneously without using markers on the subject. Evaluation of the solutions is ...
    • Reflection-aware generation and identification of square marker dictionaries 

      Garrido-Jurado, Sergio; Garrido, J.; Jurado Rodríguez, David; Vázquez, Francisco; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael (MDPI, 2022)
      Square markers are a widespread tool to find correspondences for camera localization because of their robustness, accuracy, and detection speed. Their identification is usually based on a binary encoding that accounts for ...
    • ReSLAM: Reusable SLAM with heterogeneous cameras 

      Romero Ramírez, Francisco J.; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Marín-Jiménez, M.J.; Carmona Poyato, Ángel; Medina-Carnicer, R. (Elsevier, 2024)
      State-of-the-art SLAM methods are designed to work only with the type of camera employed to create the map, and little attention has been paid to the reusability of the maps created. In other words, the maps generated by ...
    • Semantic segmentation of 3D car parts using UAV-based images 

      Jurado Rodríguez, David; Jurado, Juan M.; Pádua, Luís; Neto, Alexandre; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Sousa, Joaquim J. (Elsevier, 2022)
      Environment understanding in real-world scenarios has gained an increased interest in research and industry. The advances in data capture and processing allow a high-detailed reconstruction from a set of multi-view images ...
    • sSLAM: Speeded-Up Visual SLAM Mixing Artificial Markers and Temporary Keypoints 

      Romero Ramírez, Francisco J.; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Marín-Jiménez, M.J.; Cazorla, Miguel; Medina-Carnicer, R.; Romero Ramírez, Francisco J. (MDPI, 2023)
      Environment landmarks are generally employed by visual SLAM (vSLAM) methods in the form of keypoints. However, these landmarks are unstable over time because they belong to areas that tend to change, e.g., shadows or moving ...
    • Stereo Pictorial Structure for 2D Articulated Human Pose Estimation 

      López-Quintero, Manuel I.; Marín-Jiménez, M.J.; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Madrid-Cuevas, F.J.; Medina-Carnicer, R. (2015)
      In this paper, we consider the problem of 2D human pose estimation on stereo image pairs. In particular, we aim at estimating the location, orientation and scale of upper-body parts of people detected in stereo image ...
    • The AVA Multi-View Dataset for Gait Recognition 

      López-Fernández, D.; Madrid-Cuevas, F.J.; Marín-Jiménez, M.J.; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Carmona Poyato, Ángel (2018)
      In this paper, we introduce a new multi-view dataset for gait recognition. The dataset was recorded in an indoor scenario, using six convergent cameras setup to produce multi-view videos, where each video depicts a ...
    • UCO physical rehabilitation: new dataset and study of human pose estimation methods on physical rehabilitation exercises 

      Aguilar-Ortega, Rafael; Berrral-Soler, Rafael; Jiménez-Velasco, Isabel; Romero Ramírez, Francisco J.; García-Marín, Manuel; Zafra-Palma, Jorge; Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael; Medina-Carnicer, R.; Marín-Jiménez, M.J. (MDPI, 2023)
      Physical rehabilitation plays a crucial role in restoring motor function following injuries or surgeries. However, the challenge of overcrowded waiting lists often hampers doctors’ ability to monitor patients’ recovery ...