Human movement analysis using stereophotogrammetry, II:​ instrumental errors

Chiari, Lorenzo; Della Croce, Ugo; Leardini, Alberto; Cappozzo, Aurelio

Affiliations

¹Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy

²Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Viale San Pietro 43c, 07100 Sassari, Italy

³Laboratorio di Analisi del Movimento, Centro di Ricerca Codivilla-Putti, Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Via di Barbiano 1/10, 40136 Bologna, Italy

⁴Istituto Universitario di Scienze Motorie, Piazza Lauro de Bosis 15, 00194 Roma, Italy

Abstract and keywords

This paper reviews the main aspects involved with the management of instrumental errors associated with video-based optoelectronic stereophotogrammetry. Insights on how such errors propagate to kinematic quantities are of great interest in the field of human movement analysis to improve the precision and reliability of measurements. The review focuses on the technical assessment and analytical compensation procedures to cope with instrumental errors. Relevant contributions dealing with intrinsic sources of systematic and random errors, such as the issues concerning camera calibration and filtering and smoothing of marker position data, are presented. Procedures for marker imaged processing, and missing marker recovery are also surveyed. Methods for checking the accuracy and precision of stereophotogrammetric systems are then reviewed. Finally, since the desired outcome of the movement measurements is a reliable estimate of body segment kinematics, state-of-the-art techniques proposed for minimization of error propagation arising from a cluster of external markers are described.

Keywords: Human movement analysis; Optoelectronic stereophotogrammetry; Measurement errors; Spot-check; Experiment design

Links

DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2004.04.004

PubMed: 15639399

WoS: 000226568400009

History

Received: 2004-04-2

Accepted: 2004-04-9

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