Representing activities with layers of velocity statistics for multiple human action recognition in surveillance applications

5 March 2014 Representing activities with layers of velocity statistics for multiple human action recognition in surveillance applications

Fabio Martínez, Antoine Manzanera, Eduardo Romero

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Proceedings Volume 9026, Video Surveillance and Transportation Imaging Applications 2014; 90260G (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042588
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

A novel action recognition strategy in a video-surveillance context is herein presented. The method starts by computing a multiscale dense optical flow, from which spatial apparent movement regions are clustered as Regions of Interest (RoIs). Each ROI is summarized at each time by an orientation histogram. Then, a multilayer structure dynamically stores the orientation histograms associated to any of the found RoI in the scene and a set of cumulated temporal statistics is used to label that RoI using a previously trained support vector machine model. The method is evaluated using classic human action and public surveillance datasets, with two different tasks: (1) classification of short sequences containing individual actions, and (2) Frame-level recognition of human action in long sequences containing simultaneous actions. The accuracy measurements are: 96:7% (sequence rate) for the classification task, and 95:3% (frame rate) for recognition in surveillance scenes.

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Fabio Martínez, Antoine Manzanera, and Eduardo Romero "Representing activities with layers of velocity statistics for multiple human action recognition in surveillance applications", Proc. SPIE 9026, Video Surveillance and Transportation Imaging Applications 2014, 90260G (5 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042588

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