background: human body posture influences on his/her physiological functions. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of forward shoulder correction on pulmonary function of elementary female students. methods: subjects of this quasi-experimental research were two groups (n=20) of students with normal posture (np) and forward shoulder posture(fsp)  which is divided randomly into...

OF THESIS THE WHOLE PICTURE: BODY POSTURE RECOGNITION IN INFANCY Holistic image processing is tied to expertise and is characteristic of face and body processing by adults. Infants process faces holistically, but it is unknown whether infants process body information holistically. In the present study, we examined whether infants discriminate changes in body posture holistically. Body posture i...

This paper describes a physically precise spine model and its application to estimate three dimensional spine posture from the frontal and lateral views of a human body taken by two conventional video cameras. In our method, rough position of each part is estimated by using a simple model applicable to images. Based on the obtained features from the fitting process of the simple model, the forc...

Abstract In the history of body, upright posture has been theme philosophical reflections on human nature and object scientific explorations practical measures ensuring social norms. It is even possible to locate a certain discourse body as model for understanding what it means be human. However, humans have long experimented with opposite: inverted position. The handstand probably epitome this...

A method for temporally integrating appearance-based body-part labelling is presented. We begin by modifying the silhouette labelling method of Ghost[4]; that system first determines which posture best describes the person currently and then uses posture-specific heuristics to generate labels for head, hands, and feet. Our approach is to assign a posture probability and then estimate body part ...