Movement pattern histogram for action recognition and retrieval

Arridhana Ciptadi, Matthew S. Goodwin, James M. Rehg

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Abstract

We present a novel action representation based on encoding the global temporal movement of an action. We represent an action as a set of movement pattern histograms that encode the global temporal dynamics of an action. Our key observation is that temporal dynamics of an action are robust to variations in appearance and viewpoint changes, making it useful for action recognition and retrieval. We pose the problem of computing similarity between action representations as a maximum matching problem in a bipartite graph. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method for cross-view action recognition on the IXMAS dataset. We also show how our representation complements existing bag-of-features representations on the UCF50 dataset. Finally we show the power of our representation for action retrieval on a new real-world dataset containing repetitive motor movements emitted by children with autism in an unconstrained classroom setting.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputer Vision, ECCV 2014 - 13th European Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer
Pages695-710
Number of pages16
EditionPART 2
ISBN (Print)9783319106045
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event13th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2014 - Zurich, Switzerland
Duration: Sep 6 2014Sep 12 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume8690 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other13th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2014
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityZurich
Period9/6/149/12/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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