Real-time 3D object/body pose estimation

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With increasing interest in the applications of human and robot interactions, the need for easy robotprogramming and their understanding from their surrounding has become a priority. In particular, there is astrong demand for robotic systems in various fields including telepresence, security and health monitoring thathave become very popular in many industrial and commercial applications. Majority of the previousapproaches, developed many years ago, are designed for an environment under various limitations and are notapplicable to commercial products. Besides they have been mainly devised for laboratory conditions orcontrolled challenges such as Amazon grand challenge.A major challenge of the industry is to develop fast and robust understanding of the objects or bodies in theenvironment seen by the robot and estimate their 3D poses accurately. Crosswing is pursuing the goal toempower family, friends, shoppers, travelers, doctors, clinicians, security and office staff to reach out to othersby coupling leading media devices with semi-autonomous motion systems, through its patented virtualMETMIPR platform. As a result, they plan to meet the challenge of delivering low cost, yet real-world functionality infields spanning from health care to personal security. Development and integration of the proposed poseestimation method will expand the company's market and competitiveness. In addition to the benefits to thecompany, the proposed work will create training and job opportunities for the graduate students andpostdoctoral fellows engaged in this project and/or its continuation.