A FAST VOTING-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION IN VIDEO SEQUENCES

Duc-Hieu Tran, Wooi-Boon Goh

2012

Abstract

Human action recognition has been an active research area in recent years. However, building a robust human action recognition system still remains a challenging task due to the large variations in action classes, varying human appearances, illumination changes, camera motion, occlusions and background clutter. Most previous work focus on the goal of improving recognition rates. This paper describes a computationally fast votingbased approach for human action recognition, in which the action in the video sequence is recognized based on the support of the local spatio-temporal features. The proposed technique requires no parameter tuning and can produce recognition rates that are comparable to those in recent published literature. Moreover, the technique can localize the single human action in the video sequence without much additional computation. Recognition results on the KTH and Weizmann action dataset are presented.

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Tran D. and Goh W. (2012). A FAST VOTING-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION IN VIDEO SEQUENCES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-03-7, pages 613-619. DOI: 10.5220/0003850606130619


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@conference{visapp12,
author={Duc-Hieu Tran and Wooi-Boon Goh},
title={A FAST VOTING-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION IN VIDEO SEQUENCES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={613-619},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003850606130619},
isbn={978-989-8565-03-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - A FAST VOTING-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION IN VIDEO SEQUENCES
SN - 978-989-8565-03-7
AU - Tran D.
AU - Goh W.
PY - 2012
SP - 613
EP - 619
DO - 10.5220/0003850606130619