ViHASi: virtual human action silhouette data for the performance evaluation of silhouette-based action recognition methods

  • Authors:
  • Hossein Ragheb;Sergio Velastin;Paolo Remagnino;Tim Ellis

  • Affiliations:
  • Kingston University London, Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom;Kingston University London, Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom;Kingston University London, Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom;Kingston University London, Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • VNBA '08 Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Vision networks for behavior analysis
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We introduce a large body of virtual human action silhouette (ViHASi) data generated recently for the purpose of evaluating a family of action recognition methods. These are the silhouette-based human action recognition methods. This synthetic multi-camera video data-set consists of 20 action classes, 9 actors and up to 40 synchronized perspective cameras. The data-set has been made available online for other researchers to use. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of the ViHASi data we make use of our recent action recognition method that is simple and relatively fast. Moreover, to deal with long video sequences containing several action samples, a practical temporal segmentation algorithm is introduced and tested that is tightly coupled with the action recognition method used. Our experimental methodologies provides a reasonable platform for quantitatively comparing silhouette-based action recognition methods.