Building A Visual Tracking System for Home - Based Rehabilitation

Visual tracking of human movement has attracted increasing attention recently because of its wide spectrum of applications, including athletic and clinical performance analysis, human-computer interface, surveillance, motion capture for games and animation. There are two main techniques in the visual tracking of the human movement community: marker-based tracking and marker-free tracking. This paper presents a visual tracking system, which exploits both marker-based and marker-free methods, to support the home-based rehabilitation program. It provides a useful and complete tracking system to help the patients’ who sustain a stroke to recover and improve their mobility at a home environment.