1. The document summarizes research on improving a single person pose recognition and tracking system using computer vision techniques. The goal is to better detect body parts and recognize poses in real-time using a single camera. 2. Key aspects of the system include using a mixture of Gaussians model for background subtraction, and a particle filter for tracking the torso and head. Hand detection is improved by combining skin color detection with the human blob silhouette. 3. The research aims to improve pose recognition performance by classifying "non-poses" - poses that are different from the predefined poses. Experiments show that increasing the dataset size and adding a "non-pose" class leads to better detection results.