Partial size-and-shape distributions

[摘要] The concepts of partial size-and-shape and partial shape are defined, with motivation from a study in human movement analysis. Some co-ordinates for partial shape for landmarks in three dimensions are given, and Gaussian models for the landmark co-ordinates are proposed. The main results involve the derivation of the partial size-and-shape distributions for the isotropic and general multivariate normal models for three-dimensional data. The partial shape distribution is given in the isotropic case. Maximum likelihood based inference is explored, and examples using simulated and real human movement data illustrate the methodology. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

[发布日期] 2007-11-01

[关键词] Gaussian;human movement;landmarks;shape;size