Action recognition based on statistical analysis from clustered flow vectors

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• 作者：Upal Mahbub (1)
  Hafiz Imtiaz (1)
  Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad (2)
  
• 关键词：Motion ; based representation ; Action recognition ; Optical flow ; RANSAC ; SVM
• 刊名：Signal, Image and Video Processing
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：February 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：8
• 期：2
• 页码：243-253
• 全文大小：544 KB
• 作者单位：Upal Mahbub (1)
  Hafiz Imtiaz (1)
  Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad (2)
  
  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Bangladesh, University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh
  2. Department of Applied Physics, Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  
• ISSN：1863-1711

文摘

A new technique for action clustering-based human action representation on the basis of optical flow analysis and random sample consensus (RANSAC) method is proposed in this paper. The apparent motion of the human subject with respect to the background is detected and localized by using optical flow analysis. The next task is to characterize the action through the frequent movement of the optical flow points or interest points at different regions of the moving subject. The RANSAC algorithm is used to filter out any unwanted interested points all around the scene and keep only those that are related to that particular subject’s motion. From the remaining salient key interest points, the area of the human body within the frame is estimated. The rectangular area surrounding the human body is then segmented both horizontally and vertically. Now, the percentage of change of interest points in each horizontal and vertical segments from frame to frame is estimated. Similar results are obtained for different persons performing the same action and the corresponding values are averaged for respective segments. The matrix constructed by this strategy is used as a feature vector for that particular action. Similar data are calculated for each block created at the intersections of the horizontal and vertical segments. In addition to these, the change in the position of the person along X- and Y-axes is accumulated for an action and included in the feature vectors. Afterward, for the purpose of recognition using the extracted feature vectors, a distance-based similarity measure and a support vector machine-based classifiers have been exploited. Several combination of the feature vectors is examined. From extensive experimentation upon benchmark motion databases, it is found that the proposed method offers not only a very high degree of accuracy but also computational savings.