(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-10) Von Petersdorff, Hagen Alexander; Van der Merwe, A. F.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Industrial Engineering.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This final year project report describes the creation of a computer vision solution to assess worker performance in a manual labour environment. Time-study data is gathered by the system and performance feedback is given to workers in real-time. The system consists of a Microsoft Xbox Kinect camera, connected via USB to a PC. The Kinect camera is used alongside OpenNI software to perform skeletal-tracking on the worker, and this data is processed by an application created in C++ to perform cycle recognition. Performance is calculated by assessing the time period between successive cycles and simple feedback is given to the worker after each cycle by an LCD display. Performance data are stored for subsequent analysis.