Human shape recognition using the method of moments and artificial neural networks
Christos A. Nicolaou, Allan L. Egbert, Robert C. Lacher, SS Bassett · 2003
The research described in the paper explores the feasibility of an automated adaptive system capable of recognizing that a moving object in a sequence of two-dimensional images is a human or, at the very least has a human shape. To address this problem a method employing the method of standard moments, and artificial neural networks has been designed and implemented The results of the method implementation and testing indicate the validity of the system design and the techniques used. The automated human recognition system developed recognizes left and right human profiles with a success rate of 87.5% and 92.5% respectively. The system is also successful in distinguishing images of human profiles from images of tailgating persons, crouching persons, objects, persons with objects and plain image noise.