Statistical descriptors for human actions classification

  • Authors:
  • Vassilis Syrris;Vassilios Petridis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical&Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Electrical&Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Venue:
  • MED '09 Proceedings of the 2009 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to investigate alternative ways for representing suitably, with the fewest possible assumptions, the information derived from video recordings. It proposes a set of statistical descriptors capable of summarizing all the available information from each video frame. A sequence of such features expresses the object motion implicitly without the need for object detection techniques and tedious pre-processing. A video application such as the human action recognition is then tackled as a time-series classification problem. Neural networks are used for the time-series learning; when they are simulated with a new human action video, their predictions constitute the input a typical classifier would require, in order for it to decide which model (from the known time-series) has possibly generated this video.