Tracking the invisible: Geoinformatics and Human Social Behavior

Introduction

Body tracking is a practice leading to the personal identification of people. With the right technology, we can do better. Skeleton data processing is a great option to analyse human behaviour with an added layer of privacy. In this talk, you will learn from Geoinformatics about body tracking and a few setups to obtain anonymous data.

Motivation

How can we enjoy technological solutions from research and industry while keeping our identities undisclosed? Computer vision. Depth cameras. Skeleton tracking. As more tools became available, more information about our physical bodies could be accessed. Thus, we need to implement techniques that give us a sense of security without giving up new services or products.

Programm

The session includes:

1. Self-introduction (1 minute)
2. Overview session (1 minute)
3. Motivation (2 minutes): Why understanding human social behaviour is important
4. Methodology :
   - Which information can/should be extracted (3 minutes)
   - Technologies available to extract relevant bodily information (5 minutes)
   - Some libraries available to explore (3 minutes)
   - PyZed configuration (with Zed camera) (5 to 7 minutes)
   - Algorithm implemented to process skeleton data in Python (5 to 7 minutes)
5. Conclusions/Summary (1 minute)

What is this talk not about:
- Code specifications related to the main camera development