Human action recognition using motion energy template

Yanhua Shao; Yongcai Guo; Chao Gao

doi:10.1117/1.OE.54.6.063107

29 June 2015 Human action recognition using motion energy template

Yanhua Shao, Yongcai Guo, Chao Gao

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 54, Issue 6, 063107 (June 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.6.063107

Abstract

Human action recognition is an active and interesting research topic in computer vision and pattern recognition field that is widely used in the real world. We proposed an approach for human activity analysis based on motion energy template (MET), a new high-level representation of video. The main idea for the MET model is that human actions could be expressed as the composition of motion energy acquired in a three-dimensional (3-D) space-time volume by using a filter bank. The motion energies were directly computed from raw video sequences, thus some problems, such as object location and segmentation, etc., are definitely avoided. Another important competitive merit of this MET method is its insensitivity to gender, hair, and clothing. We extract MET features by using the Bhattacharyya coefficient to measure the motion energy similarity between the action template video and the tested video, and then the 3-D max-pooling. Using these features as input to the support vector machine, extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets, Weizmann and KTH, were carried out. Compared with other state-of-the-art approaches, such as variation energy image, dynamic templates and local motion pattern descriptors, the experimental results demonstrate that our MET model is competitive and promising.

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Yanhua Shao, Yongcai Guo, and Chao Gao "Human action recognition using motion energy template," Optical Engineering 54(6), 063107 (29 June 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.6.063107

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