Optimization Algorithms for Non-Linear Series Models with applications to 3D Human Motion Analysis in Video

1. INTRODUCTION 2. RESEARCH IN 3D HUMAN TRACKING 3. MODELING 4. COVARIANCE SCALED SAMPLING 5. COMPUTING ROADMAPS OF LOCAL MINIMA ON DYNAMIC NON-CONVEX COST FUNCTIONS 6. ACCELERATED HYPERDYNAMIC SAMPLING 7. ANALYSIS OF THE SEARCH PROBLEM 8. PERSPECTIVES AND OPEN PROBLEMS A. SUPERQUADRICS AND DEFORMATIONS B. THE MULLER POTENTIAL C. VISION SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION