Motion Primitives and Probabilistic Edit Distance for Action Recognition

  • Authors:
  • Preben Fihl;Michael B. Holte;Thomas B. Moeslund

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory of Computer Vision and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark;Laboratory of Computer Vision and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark;Laboratory of Computer Vision and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The number of potential applications has made automatic recognition of human actions a very active research area. Different approaches have been followed based on trajectories through some state space. In this paper we also model an action as a trajectory through a state space, but we represent the actions as a sequence of temporal isolated instances, denoted primitives. These primitives are each defined by four features extracted from motion images. The primitives are recognized in each frame based on a trained classifier resulting in a sequence of primitives. From this sequence we recognize different temporal actions using a probabilistic Edit Distance method. The method is tested on different actions with and without noise and the results show recognition rates of 88.7% and 85.5%, respectively.