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    Area of Science:

    • Computer Vision
    • Biomechanics
    • Statistical Analysis

    Background:

    • Advancements in depth sensors and 3D skeletal estimation enable automated human movement analysis.
    • Current methods often focus on individual joints, limiting holistic assessment.
    • Applications span sports, medical diagnosis, physical therapy, and elderly monitoring.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a comprehensive geometric framework for quantifying and statistically evaluating kinematic features of human movement.
    • To represent movements as temporal trajectories on full-body skeleton shape space, moving beyond joint-centric analysis.
    • To define higher-level kinematic features like spatial symmetry (sS), temporal symmetry (tS), velocity (Vl), and balance (Bl).

    Main Methods:

    • Representing human movements as trajectories on the shape space of full-body skeletons.
    • Developing metrics with invariance properties for these trajectories.
    • Defining and analyzing higher-level kinematic features: spatial symmetry (sS), temporal symmetry (tS), action's velocity (Vl), and body's balance (Bl).
    • Utilizing functional data analysis for hypothesis testing in feature space.

    Main Results:

    • The framework allows for the quantification of complex kinematic features that capture motion cadence and individual subject quantification.
    • Hypothesis testing in feature space validated existing assumptions about human movement.
    • New relationships between kinematic features and demographic factors (age, gender, athletic training) were discovered.
    • Demonstrated utility using the K3Da Kinect dataset.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed geometric framework offers a novel approach to statistical analysis of human kinematic data.
    • The defined higher-level features provide a more holistic quantification of body movements.
    • This methodology facilitates the discovery of clinically relevant relationships between kinematic data and demographic/health factors.