Changes in the Heart of Europe: Recent Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, Roma, and Sorbs

Computer vision approaches to human motion analysis have received considerable attention from different research areas over the past couple of years. The strong interest is largely due to their various applications in surveillance, driver assistance systems, human-computer interfaces, marker-less motion capture, biomedical engineering and computer graphics. This thesis investigates the computational integration of different visual representations for the detection of human bodies and the analysis of their movements in both indoor and unconstrained outdoor environments. New image coding schemes are presented in combination with methods from machine learning and dynamic filtering to address issues of complexity, robustness and generalization.McCajor Hall, Timothy is the author of 'Changes in the Heart of Europe: Recent Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, Roma, and Sorbs', published 2006 under ISBN 9783898216067 and ISBN 3898216063.