Cross-domain self-supervised complete geometric representation learning for real-scanned point cloud based pathological gait analysis
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Author(s)
Gu, Xiao
Guo, Yao
Yang, Guang-Zhong
Lo, Benny
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Accurate lower-limb pose estimation is a prereq-uisite of skeleton based pathological gait analysis. To achievethis goal in free-living environments for long-term monitoring,single depth sensor has been proposed in research. However,the depth map acquired from a single viewpoint encodes onlypartial geometric information of the lower limbs and exhibitslarge variations across different viewpoints. Existing off-the-shelfthree-dimensional (3D) pose tracking algorithms and publicdatasets for depth based human pose estimation are mainlytargeted at activity recognition applications. They are relativelyinsensitive to skeleton estimation accuracy, especially at thefoot segments. Furthermore, acquiring ground truth skeletondata for detailed biomechanics analysis also requires consid-erable efforts. To address these issues, we propose a novelcross-domain self-supervised complete geometric representationlearning framework, with knowledge transfer from the unlabelledsynthetic point clouds of full lower-limb surfaces. The proposedmethod can significantly reduce the number of ground truthskeletons (with only 1%) in the training phase, meanwhileensuring accurate and precise pose estimation and capturingdiscriminative features across different pathological gait patternscompared to other methods.
Date Issued
2022-03-01
Date Acceptance
2021-08-22
Citation
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2022, 26 (3), pp.1034-1044
ISSN
2168-2194
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
1034
End Page
1044
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Volume
26
Issue
3
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Sponsor
British Council (UK)
British Council (UK)
Grant Number
330760239
IL-NXPO2019/20
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-08-27