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Compared with visual signals, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) placed on human limbs can capture accurate motion signals while being robust to lighting variation and occlusion. While these characteristics are intuitively valuable to help…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Mingfang Zhang , Yifei Huang , Ruicong Liu , Yoichi Sato

Inertial measurement units (IMUs) increasingly function as a basic component of wearable sensor network (WSN)systems. IMU-based joint angle estimation (JAE) is a relatively typical usage of IMUs, with extensive applications. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Chunzhi Yi , Feng Jiang , Baichun Wei , Chifu Yang , Zhen Ding , Jubo Jin , Jie Liu

Tracking human full-body motion using sparse wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) overcomes the limitations of occlusion and instrumentation of the environment inherent in vision-based approaches. However, purely IMU-based tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ying Xue , Jiaxi Jiang , Rayan Armani , Dominik Hollidt , Yi-Chi Liao , Christian Holz

MEMS Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) as ubiquitous proprioceptive motion measurement devices are available on various everyday gadgets and robotic platforms. Nevertheless, the direct inference of geometrical transformations or odometry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 R. Khorrambakht , H. Damirchi , H. D. Taghirad

Inertial motion capture is a promising approach for capturing motion outside the laboratory. However, as one major drawback, most of the current methods require different quantities to be calibrated or computed offline as part of the setup…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Michael Lorenz , Bertram Taetz , Gabriele Bleser-Taetz , Didier Stricker

In motion tracking of connected multi-body systems Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are used in a wide variety of applications, since they provide a low-cost easy-to-use method for orientation estimation. However, in indoor environments or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Dustin Lehmann , Daniel Laidig , Raphael Deimel , Thomas Seel

Human motion capture is frequently used to study rehabilitation and clinical problems, as well as to provide realistic animation for the entertainment industry. IMU-based systems, as well as Marker-based motion tracking systems, are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Omid Taheri , Hassan Salarieh , Aria Alasty

Tracking kinematic chains has many uses from healthcare to virtual reality. Inertial measurement units, IMUs, are well-recognised for their body tracking capabilities, however, existing solutions rely on gravity and often magnetic fields…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Greg K. Stretton , George Alex Koulieris

The flexibility and range of motion in human hands play a crucial role in human interaction with the environment and have been studied across different fields. Researchers explored various technological solutions for gathering information…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Alessandro Carfì , Mohamad Alameh , Valerio Belcamino , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on wearable inertial sensors plays a critical role in remote health monitoring. In patients with movement disorders, the ability to detect abnormal patient movements in their home environments can…

We demonstrate a novel deep neural network capable of reconstructing human full body pose in real-time from 6 Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) worn on the user's body. In doing so, we address several difficult challenges. First, the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Yinghao Huang , Manuel Kaufmann , Emre Aksan , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges , Gerard Pons-Moll

The ability to sense, localize, and estimate the 3D position and orientation of the human body is critical in virtual reality (VR) and extended reality (XR) applications. This becomes more important and challenging with the deployment of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Nguyen Quang Hieu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Mohammad Abu Alsheikh

We are living in a world surrounded by diverse and "smart" devices with rich modalities of sensing ability. Conveniently capturing the interactions between us humans and these objects remains far-reaching. In this paper, we present I'm-HOI,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Chengfeng Zhao , Juze Zhang , Jiashen Du , Ziwei Shan , Junye Wang , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang , Lan Xu

Wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) provide a cost-effective approach to assessing human movement in clinical and everyday environments. However, developing the associated classification models for robust assessment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andreas Spilz , Heiko Oppel , Jochen Werner , Kathrin Stucke-Straub , Felix Capanni , Michael Munz

Foot-mounted inertial sensors become popular in many indoor or GPS-denied applications, including but not limited to medical monitoring, gait analysis, soldier and first responder positioning. However, the foot-mounted inertial navigation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Maoran Zhu , Yuanxin Wu , Shitu Luo

Inertial navigation systems for pedestrians are infrastructure-less and can achieve sub-meter accuracy in the short/medium period. However, when low-cost inertial measurement units (IMU) are employed for their implementation, they suffer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are interceptive modalities that provide ego-motion measurements independent of the environmental factors. They are widely adopted in various autonomous systems. Motivated by the limitations in processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Rooholla Khorrambakht , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Hamed Damirchi , Zhenghua Chen , Zhengguo Li

Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) enable portable, multibody motion capture (MoCap) in diverse environments beyond the laboratory, making them a practical choice for diagnosing mobility disorders and supporting rehabilitation in clinical or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hassan Osman , Daan de Kanter , Jelle Boelens , Manon Kok , Ajay Seth

We aim to enable robots to visually localize a target person through the aid of an additional sensing modality -- the target person's 3D inertial measurements. The need for such technology may arise when a robot is to meet person in a crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Xi Sun , Xinshuo Weng , Kris Kitani

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable devices such as smart watches embedded with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors has various applications relevant to our daily life, such as workout tracking and health monitoring. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Wenjin Tao , Haodong Chen , Md Moniruzzaman , Ming C. Leu , Zhaozheng Yi , Ruwen Qin