Color Based Motion Tracking for Home-based Rehabilitation
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Su, Wen-Jian
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Traditionally patients who sustain a stroke or Frozen Shoulder take physiotherapy with the help of physiotherapists or well-trained carers to diagnose if they are doing the rehabilitation properly. However, because of the staffing shortages of the medical budgets and the need of a prolonged period of time for the rehabilitation exercise, patients are not receiving enough treatment. We propose to develop a visual tracking system to support the rehabilitation program for the patients at home environments so that the burden of hospitals and physiotherapists could be relieved.
In this paper, we propose a color based tracking algorithm for capturing the motion of human body parts for home-based rehabilitation. Different color belts are attached to the body joints of interest and tracked in the video sequence. The home-based rehabilitation requires a visual-tracking system that should be cheap, accurate and nm in real time.
On the other side, virtual reality (VR) has been used for rehabilitation in many studies. However, too expensive and complicated prohibits VR form widespread use in clinical rehabilitation program. In this paper, we try to design a reasonable cost and simple VR program, like visual targets reaching motion. We hope this program can evaluate patients’ upper extremity function via interactive procedure and the data can be an evaluation for the hospitals and physiotherapists.
Subjects
彩色影像處理
Color image processing
Type
thesis
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
ntu-95-R93921125-1.pdf
Size
23.31 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):5fcdb4fed589feab5cc4db838ecae6c1