Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied bythe inventors: “Body pose tracking is used in a variety of appl ications, from Augmented Reality (AR) andcomputer gaming to sport and health. T raditional body pose tracking systems are complex, expensiveand inflexible. Gen erally, these systems determine the pose of the body by placing passive infra-re d (IR)markers on the limbs of the body, placing the body within a specifically- designed capture space in whichperipheral IR cameras provide IR images of the b ody from different angles, illuminating the body with IRlight and recoding the IR images, and then estimating the pose of the body based on the locations of the IR markers in the IR images.