Mean of Means: Human Localization with Calibration-free and Unconstrained Camera Settings (extended version)

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Tianyi, Zhang, Wengyu, Zhang, Xulu, Wu, Jiaxin, Wei, Xiao-Yong, Cao, Jiannong, Li, Qing
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2025
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866910834809110528
author Zhang, Tianyi
Zhang, Wengyu
Zhang, Xulu
Wu, Jiaxin
Wei, Xiao-Yong
Cao, Jiannong
Li, Qing
author_facet Zhang, Tianyi
Zhang, Wengyu
Zhang, Xulu
Wu, Jiaxin
Wei, Xiao-Yong
Cao, Jiannong
Li, Qing
contents Accurate human localization is crucial for various applications, especially in the Metaverse era. Existing high precision solutions rely on expensive, tag-dependent hardware, while vision-based methods offer a cheaper, tag-free alternative. However, current vision solutions based on stereo vision face limitations due to rigid perspective transformation principles and error propagation in multi-stage SVD solvers. These solutions also require multiple high-resolution cameras with strict setup constraints.To address these limitations, we propose a probabilistic approach that considers all points on the human body as observations generated by a distribution centered around the body's geometric center. This enables us to improve sampling significantly, increasing the number of samples for each point of interest from hundreds to billions. By modeling the relation between the means of the distributions of world coordinates and pixel coordinates, leveraging the Central Limit Theorem, we ensure normality and facilitate the learning process. Experimental results demonstrate human localization accuracy of 96\% within a 0.3$m$ range and nearly 100\% accuracy within a 0.5$m$ range, achieved at a low cost of only 10 USD using two web cameras with a resolution of 640$\times$480 pixels.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2502_13017
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Mean of Means: Human Localization with Calibration-free and Unconstrained Camera Settings (extended version)
Zhang, Tianyi
Zhang, Wengyu
Zhang, Xulu
Wu, Jiaxin
Wei, Xiao-Yong
Cao, Jiannong
Li, Qing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
Accurate human localization is crucial for various applications, especially in the Metaverse era. Existing high precision solutions rely on expensive, tag-dependent hardware, while vision-based methods offer a cheaper, tag-free alternative. However, current vision solutions based on stereo vision face limitations due to rigid perspective transformation principles and error propagation in multi-stage SVD solvers. These solutions also require multiple high-resolution cameras with strict setup constraints.To address these limitations, we propose a probabilistic approach that considers all points on the human body as observations generated by a distribution centered around the body's geometric center. This enables us to improve sampling significantly, increasing the number of samples for each point of interest from hundreds to billions. By modeling the relation between the means of the distributions of world coordinates and pixel coordinates, leveraging the Central Limit Theorem, we ensure normality and facilitate the learning process. Experimental results demonstrate human localization accuracy of 96\% within a 0.3$m$ range and nearly 100\% accuracy within a 0.5$m$ range, achieved at a low cost of only 10 USD using two web cameras with a resolution of 640$\times$480 pixels.
title Mean of Means: Human Localization with Calibration-free and Unconstrained Camera Settings (extended version)
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13017