HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION USING CONTINUOUS HMMS AND HOG/HOF SILHOUETTE REPRESENTATION

Mohamed Ibn Khedher, Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, Bernadette Dorizzi

2012

Abstract

This paper presents an alternative to the mainstream approach of STIP-based SVM recognition for human recognition. First, it studies whether or not whole silhouette representation by Histogram-of-Oriented-Gradients (HOG) or Histogram-of-Optical-Flow (HOF) descriptors is more discriminated when compared to sparse spatio-temporal interest points (STIPs). Second, it investigates whether explicitly modeling the temporal order of features using continuous HMMs outperforms the standard Bag-of-Words (BoW) representation that overlooks such an order. When both whole silhouette representation and temporal order modeling are combined, a significant improvement is shown on the Weizmann database over STIP-based SVM recognition.

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Ibn Khedher M., A. El-Yacoubi M. and Dorizzi B. (2012). HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION USING CONTINUOUS HMMS AND HOG/HOF SILHOUETTE REPRESENTATION . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-8425-99-7, pages 503-508. DOI: 10.5220/0003695905030508


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@conference{icpram12,
author={Mohamed Ibn Khedher and Mounim A. El-Yacoubi and Bernadette Dorizzi},
title={HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION USING CONTINUOUS HMMS AND HOG/HOF SILHOUETTE REPRESENTATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,},
year={2012},
pages={503-508},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003695905030508},
isbn={978-989-8425-99-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,
TI - HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION USING CONTINUOUS HMMS AND HOG/HOF SILHOUETTE REPRESENTATION
SN - 978-989-8425-99-7
AU - Ibn Khedher M.
AU - A. El-Yacoubi M.
AU - Dorizzi B.
PY - 2012
SP - 503
EP - 508
DO - 10.5220/0003695905030508