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In this chapter, first some general theoretical background information about camera and human models are given. Thereafter, elementary computer vision techniques that many of the projects in this book capitalize on are described.

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de Aguiar, E. (2010). Preliminary Techniques. In: Animation and Performance Capture Using Digitized Models. Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10316-2_2

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