Perception of Human Motion. Blake, R. A. S. Annual Review of Psychology, 58:47--73, 2007.
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Humans, being highly social creatures, rely heavily on the ability to perceive what others are doing and to infer from gestures and expressions what others may be intending to do. These perceptual skills are easily mastered by most, but not all, people, in large part because human action readily communicates intentions and feelings. In recent years, remarkable advances have been made in our understanding of the visual, motoric, and affective influences on perception of human action, as well as in the elucidation of the neural concomitants of perception of human action. This article reviews those advances and, where possible, draws links among those findings.
@Article{Blake2007,
  Title                    = {Perception of Human Motion},
  Author                   = {Blake, R. AND Shiffrar, M.},
  Journal                  = {Annual Review of Psychology},
  Year                     = {2007},
  Pages                    = {47--73},
  Volume                   = {58},

  Abstract                 = {Humans, being highly social creatures, rely heavily on the ability to perceive what others are doing and to infer from gestures and expressions what others may be intending to do. These perceptual skills are easily mastered by most, but not all, people, in large part because human action readily communicates intentions and feelings. In recent years, remarkable advances have been made in our understanding of the visual, motoric, and affective influences on perception of human action, as well as in the elucidation of the neural concomitants of perception of human action. This article reviews those advances and, where possible, draws links among those findings.},
  Doi                      = {10.1146/annurev.psych.57.102904.190152},
  Review                   = {Can we figure out who someone is just by looking at their kinematic patterns? Yes, you can. Using motion capture (or 'point light' techniques), where we strip away all information except the kinematics, observers usually have no problem figuring out what the actor is trying to do. For example, putting reflective markers on joints instead of on non-moving parts of the body are more effective for drivers to recognize. Detection coordinates are egocentric (wrt to the user)...they have a much harder time detecting an upside down set of joints than a right-side up one. Not just humans though; they can tell the type of animal, if all they had was animal kinematic data.},
  Timestamp                = {2010.05.07}
}

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