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Monitoring the spontaneous kicking patterns of infants can give insight into their development. A computer vision based method for estimating the pose of an infant's leg from range images is presented in this paper. After some manual inputs for initialization, the range data associated with the infant is extracted. The method uses Robust Point Set Registration (RPSR) to fit an articulated model to...
The paper describes a computer vision method for estimating the clinical gait metrics of walking patients in unconstrained environments. The method employs background subtraction to produce a silhouette of the subject and a randomized decision forest to detect their feet. Given the feet detections, the stride and step length, cadence, and walking speed are estimated. Validation of the system is presented...
The scales on the skin of a snake are an integral part of the snake's locomotive capabilities. It stands to reason that the integration of scales into the design of robotic snakes would open new properties to exploit. In this work, we present a robotic snake design that incorporates rigid scales in the casing of each module. To validate the impact of the scales, locomotion is tested under three conditions:...
In the rehabilitation field, determining the effectiveness of an intervention protocol begins by comparing the individual's movement characteristics against a baseline. In most settings, this baseline is determined through clinical studies involving a range of patients belonging to the same demographic group. Unfortunately, this leads to a process that is difficult to repeat for all patient demographics,...
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