Activity Recognition from Sparsely Labeled Data Using Multi-Instance Learning

  • Authors:
  • Maja Stikic;Bernt Schiele

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer IGD, Germany;TU Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • LoCA '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Activity recognition has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to its potential to enable a number of compelling context-aware applications. As most approaches rely on supervised learning methods, obtaining substantial amounts of labeled data is often an important bottle-neck for these approaches. In this paper, we present and explore a novel method for activity recognition from sparsely labeled data. The method is based on multi-instance learning allowing to significantly reduce the required level of supervision. In particular we propose several novel extensions of multi-instance learning to support different annotation strategies. The validity of the approach is demonstrated on two public datasets for three different labeling scenarios.