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Correction of Joint Angles From Kinect for Balance Exercising and Assessment.

J Appl Biomech. 2013 Jul 22;

Authors: de Rosario H, Belda-Lois JM, Fos F, Medina E, Poveda-Puente R, Kroll M

Abstract
The new generation of videogame interfaces such as Microsoft's Kinect opens the possibility of implementing exercise programs for physical training, and of evaluating and reducing the risks of elderly people falling. However, applications such as these might require measurements of joint kinematics that are more robust and accurate than the standard output given by the available middleware. This paper presents a method based on particle filters for calculating joint angles from the positions of the anatomical points detected by PrimeSense's NITE software. The application of this method to the measurement of lower limb kinematics reduced the error by one order of magnitude, to less than 10º, except for hip axial rotation, and it was advantageous over inverse kinematic analysis, in ensuring a robust and smooth solution without singularities, when the limbs are out-stretched and anatomical landmarks are aligned.

PMID: 23877057 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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