Journal
SENSORS
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s22051729
Keywords
skeletonization; triangulation; range cameras; multi-camera; ergonomic evaluation; REBA
Funding
- University of Antwerp [42602, 36536]
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This study tested three methods for calculating 3D skeletons from 2D detections and compared them using recordings and a marker-based tracking system, demonstrating that these methods are accurate enough to calculate a useful ergonomic score.
To automatically evaluate the ergonomics of workers, 3D skeletons are needed. Most ergonomic assessment methods, like REBA, are based on the different 3D joint angles. Thanks to the huge amount of training data, 2D skeleton detectors have become very accurate. In this work, we test three methods to calculate 3D skeletons from 2D detections: using the depth from a single RealSense range camera, triangulating the joints using multiple cameras, and combining the triangulation of multiple camera pairs. We tested the methods using recordings of a person doing different assembly tasks. We compared the resulting joint angles to the ground truth of a VICON marker-based tracking system. The resulting RMS angle error for the triangulation methods is between 12 degrees and 16 degrees, showing that they are accurate enough to calculate a useful ergonomic score from.
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