Learning to Recognize Human Action Sequences

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  • ICDL '02 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning
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  • 2002

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Abstract

One of the major sources of cues in developmentallearning is that of watching another person.An observercan gain a comprehensive description of the purposes of actions by watching the other person's detailed body movements.Action recognition has traditionally studied processing fixed camera observations while ignoring non-visual information.This paper explores the dynamic properties of eye movements in natural tasks: eye and head movements are quite tightly coupled with actions. We present a method that utilizes eye gaze and head position information to detect the performer's focus of attention.Attention, as represented by eye fixation, is usedfor spotting the target object related to the action.Attention switches are calculated and used to segment the action sequence into action units which are recognized by Hidden Markov Models.An experimental system is built for recognizing actions in the natural task of "stapling a letter" which demonstrates the effectiveness of the approach.