NDLI: Combining appearance and motion for human action classification in videos

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Dhillon, P.S. Nowozin, S. Lampert, C.H.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Max Planck Inst. for Biol. Cybern., Tubingen, Germany (Nowozin, S.; Lampert, C.H.) \|\| CIS, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Dhillon, P.S.)
Abstract	An important cue to high level scene understanding is to analyze the objects in the scene and their behavior and interactions. In this paper, we study the problem of classification of activities in videos, as this is an integral component of any scene understanding system, and present a novel approach for recognizing human action categories in videos by combining information from appearance and motion of human body parts. Our approach is based on tracking human body parts by using mixture particle filters and then clustering the particles using local non - parametric clustering, hence associating a local set of particles to each cluster mode. The trajectory of these cluster modes provides the “motion” information and the “appearance” information is provided by the statistical information about the relative motion of these local set of particles over a number of frames. Later we use a “Bag of Words” model to build one histogram per video sequence from the set of these robust appearance and motion descriptors. These histograms provide us characteristic information which helps us to discriminate among various human actions which ultimately helps us in better understanding of the complete scene. We tested our approach on the standard KTH and Weizmann human action datasets and the results were comparable to the state of the art methods. Additionally our approach is able to distinguish between activities that involve the motion of complete body from those in which only certain body parts move. In other words, our method discriminates well between activities with “global body motion” like running, jogging etc. and “local motion” like waving, boxing etc.
Starting Page	22
Ending Page	29
File Size	3255678
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424439942
ISSN	21607508
DOI	10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5204237
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-06-20
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Histograms Event detection Layout Video sequences Humans Detectors Motion detection Acceleration Gabor filters Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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