Human action recognition based on spatial-temporal descriptors using key poses

Shuo Hu; Yuxin Chen; Huaibao Wang; Yaqing Zuo

doi:10.1117/12.2073115

24 November 2014 Human action recognition based on spatial-temporal descriptors using key poses

Shuo Hu, Yuxin Chen, Huaibao Wang, Yaqing Zuo

Proceedings Volume 9301, International Symposium on Optoelectronic Technology and Application 2014: Image Processing and Pattern Recognition; 930132 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2073115
Event: International Symposium on Optoelectronic Technology and Application 2014, 2014, Beijing, China

Abstract

Human action recognition is an important area of pattern recognition today due to its direct application and need in various occasions like surveillance and virtual reality. In this paper, a simple and effective human action recognition method is presented based on the key poses of human silhouette and the spatio-temporal feature. Firstly, the contour points of human silhouette have been gotten, and the key poses are learned by means of K-means clustering based on the Euclidean distance between each contour point and the centre point of the human silhouette, and then the type of each action is labeled for further match. Secondly, we obtain the trajectories of centre point of each frame, and create a spatio-temporal feature value represented by W to describe the motion direction and speed of each action. The value W contains the information of location and temporal order of each point on the trajectories. Finally, the matching stage is performed by comparing the key poses and W between training sequences and test sequences, the nearest neighbor sequences is found and its label supplied the final result. Experiments on the public available Weizmann datasets show the proposed method can improve accuracy by distinguishing amphibious poses and increase suitability for real-time applications by reducing the computational cost.

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Shuo Hu, Yuxin Chen, Huaibao Wang, and Yaqing Zuo "Human action recognition based on spatial-temporal descriptors using key poses", Proc. SPIE 9301, International Symposium on Optoelectronic Technology and Application 2014: Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 930132 (24 November 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2073115

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