Human Gait Reconstruction Project

Dr. Rick Parent, Dr. Patrick Flynn, Dr. Kathy Johnson, Suba Varadarajan, Xiaoning Fu

           The Human Gait Reconstruction Project is investigating the use of markerless video for reconstructing the three-dimensional motion of human gait. The objective is to provide remote analysis of a patient's gait using low-tech equipment at the remote location. The motivation for this work is presented by the following scenario.

           A patient visits a clinic for surgery or a prosthesis to correct an abnormal gait. During the visit the patient's leg is measured or digitized and the patient's gait is digitized. The patient returns to a remote location for recovery from surgery or use of prosthesis. At a later time, a video of the patient walking is taken and sent to the clinic for analysis. The 3D motion of the gait is reconstructed using the video and knowledge of the patient's leg and is inspected for significant differences from than recorded in the clinic. Currently, we are able to reconstruct the three-dimensional gait from two-view, simultaneous, non-synced, markerless video.

          We are in the process of quantifying the error between our reconstructed video and the actual 3D motion (from 6-view, simultaneous, synced, marker video). We are also in the process of identifying the sources of error and trying to reduce them to see how accurate we can push this procedure.