Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Generating synthetic images of human skeletal motion for pose
By Lavikainen J et al.·2025·Department of Technical Physics·View original on Europe PMC →
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Original publication title: Generating synthetic images of human skeletal motion for pose and kinematics estimation tasks.
Plain-English summary
This study focused on creating a computer program that makes images of how people move, based on detailed models of human bones and muscles. The program can produce many different images from just a few basic poses by changing things like the camera angle, background, and even the appearance of the person. This is useful for training computer systems to recognize human movements more accurately than existing methods, which often rely on images marked by people who may not be experts. The software also allows users to add their own specific markers to the images, making it flexible for different needs. Overall, this program could improve the accuracy of motion tracking and pose estimation in various applications.
Abstract
We developed a software that generates images of human motion from kinematics calculated using musculoskeletal modelling. The images are automatically annotated with information from the underlying skeletal model, including 3D positions of joint centers. The software enables the generation of an arbitrary number of images from a small number of skeletal poses by varying visual factors such as camera angle, background, body morphology, and skin and clothing textures of the person. The generation of synthetic images can be helpful in generating training data for supervised learning-based human pose estimation and motion tracking models. Because our software uses information from biomechanical models of the human musculoskeletal system, its annotations have the potential to be more accurate than those of existing large datasets of real images, where non-experts have marked the positions of anatomical landmarks. Additionally, new annotation points can be defined by editing the virtual marker set of the musculoskeletal model, which allows the generation of images with user-defined annotations.
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Search related cases →Original publication on Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/41407721