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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Biomechanics Année : 2022

A kinematic-geometric model based on ankles’ depth trajectory in frontal plane for gait analysis using a single RGB-D camera

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The emergence of RGB-D cameras and the development of pose estimation algorithms offer opportunities in biomechanics. However, some challenges still remain when using them for gait analysis, including noise which leads to misidentification of gait events and inaccuracy. Therefore, we present a novel kinematic-geometric model for spatio-temporal gait analysis, based on ankles’ trajectory in the frontal plane and distance-to-camera data (depth). Our approach consists of three main steps: identification of the gait pattern and modeling via parameterized curves, development of a fitting algorithm, and computation of locomotive indices. The proposed fitting algorithm applies on both ankles’ depth data simultaneously, by minimizing through numerical optimization some geometric and biomechanical error functions. For validation, 15 subjects were asked to walk inside the walkway of the OptoGait, while the OptoGait and an RGB-D camera (Microsoft Azure Kinect) were both recording. Then, the spatiotemporal parameters of both feet were computed using the OptoGait and the proposed model. Validation results show that the proposed model yields good to excellent absolute statistical agreement (0.86≤Rc≤ 0.99). Our kinematic-geometric model offers several benefits: (1) It relies only on the ankles’ depth trajectory both for gait events extraction and spatio-temporal parameters’ calculation; (2) it is usable with any kind of RGB-D camera or even with 3D marker-based motion analysis systems in absence of toes’ and heels’ markers; and (3) it enables improving the results by denoising and smoothing the ankles’ depth trajectory. Hence, the proposed kinematic-geometric model facilitates the development of portable markerless systems for accurate gait analysis.
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hal-03841975 , version 1 (07-11-2022)

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Mehran Hatamzadeh, Laurent Busé, Frédéric Chorin, Pierre Alliez, Jean-Dominique Favreau, et al.. A kinematic-geometric model based on ankles’ depth trajectory in frontal plane for gait analysis using a single RGB-D camera. Journal of Biomechanics, 2022, 145, pp.111358. ⟨10.1016/j.jbiomech.2022.111358⟩. ⟨hal-03841975⟩
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