Oriented gradients for human action recognition

  • Authors:
  • Yuan Shen;Zhenjiang Miao

  • Affiliations:
  • Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, P.R. China;Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • ICIMCS '10 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this study, we present a simple and effective approach to human action recognition in real time video. We use oriented gradients to represent human contour and recognize human action. First, we detect the human area and obtain human contour information. And then, we use the binary image of contour to extract features and divide the contour area of each frame into several blocks. In each block, we calculate the histogram of oriented gradients and extract the main orientation of gradients as the block feature. In each frame, features of all blocks are concatenated to one feature vector to represent human pose. Then, we concatenate human pose features of sequential frames as an action feature using a sliding window with overlapping ratio. After that, we train a SVM classifier by these action features. In the experiments, our approach has a good recognition performance compared with state-of-the-art methods.