Author(s)

Yiqiao Lin, Xueyan Jiao, Lei Zhao

School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China.

Based on the continuous development of motion capture technology for ordinary video images, unmarked optical motion capture has become the fastest human posture recognition technology. Compared with other technical products, Google’s 3D human body recognition framework—Mediapipe is the most mature representative in this field. However, Mediapipe also has many defects in the detection of 3D human posture. In this paper, firstly, to solve the problem of inaccurate detection of human posture by Mediapipe, the accuracy of 2D human posture detection is improved through the speed threshold correction method for each joint; According to the problem that the monocular camera can not detect the depth Z value in the human posture data accurately, the Z value of the joint point is corrected for the human tilt angle through statistics; Then, according to the inaccurate recognition of Z value caused by large body posture, the accurate correction of Z value of human posture under different body posture is realized by normalizing the simulation proportion of each body limb; Finally, in order to solve the problem of jitter, lag problem and periodic noise in multiple frames caused by the speed change of human joints, one euro filtering and mean filtering of joint data are carried out. This paper verifies that the accuracy of 3D human posture detection based on the improved Mediapipe is more than 90% through the multi-pose recognition test for people of different heights, weights, ages and gender.

Mediapipe, Inaccurate Recognition of Z Value, Speed Threshold Method, Statistical Method, Limb Simulation, One Euro Filtering, Mean Filtering

Lin, Y. , Jiao, X. and Zhao, L. (2023) Detection of 3D Human Posture Based on Improved Mediapipe. Journal of Computer and Communications, 11, 102-121. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2023.112008.