Recognizing Human Actions Using NWFE-Based Histogram Vectors
This study presents a novel system for human action recognition. Two research issues, namely, motion representation and subspace learning, are addressed. In order to have a rich motion descriptor, we propose to combine the distance signal and the width feature so that a silhouette can be characteriz...
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description | This study presents a novel system for human action recognition. Two research issues, namely, motion representation and subspace learning, are addressed. In order to have a rich motion descriptor, we propose to combine the distance signal and the width feature so that a silhouette can be characterized in more detail. These two features provide complementary information and are integrated to yield a better discriminative power. The combined features are subsequently quantized into mid-level features using k-means clustering. In the mid-level feature space, we apply the Nonparametric Weighted Feature Extraction (NWFE) to construct a compact yet discriminative subspace model. Finally, we can simply train a Bayes classifier for recognizing human actions. We have conducted a series of experiments on two publicly available datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system. Compared with the existing approaches, our system has a significantly reduced complexity in classification stage while maintaining high accuracy. |
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spelling | doaj.art-98638d5dee034f6da4262e847c18f4332022-12-22T03:09:16ZengSpringerOpenEURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing1687-61721687-61802010-01-01201010.1155/2010/453064Recognizing Human Actions Using NWFE-Based Histogram VectorsCheng-Hsien LinFu-Song HsuWei-Yang LinThis study presents a novel system for human action recognition. Two research issues, namely, motion representation and subspace learning, are addressed. In order to have a rich motion descriptor, we propose to combine the distance signal and the width feature so that a silhouette can be characterized in more detail. These two features provide complementary information and are integrated to yield a better discriminative power. The combined features are subsequently quantized into mid-level features using k-means clustering. In the mid-level feature space, we apply the Nonparametric Weighted Feature Extraction (NWFE) to construct a compact yet discriminative subspace model. Finally, we can simply train a Bayes classifier for recognizing human actions. We have conducted a series of experiments on two publicly available datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system. Compared with the existing approaches, our system has a significantly reduced complexity in classification stage while maintaining high accuracy.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/453064 |
spellingShingle | Cheng-Hsien Lin Fu-Song Hsu Wei-Yang Lin Recognizing Human Actions Using NWFE-Based Histogram Vectors EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing |
title | Recognizing Human Actions Using NWFE-Based Histogram Vectors |
title_full | Recognizing Human Actions Using NWFE-Based Histogram Vectors |
title_fullStr | Recognizing Human Actions Using NWFE-Based Histogram Vectors |
title_full_unstemmed | Recognizing Human Actions Using NWFE-Based Histogram Vectors |
title_short | Recognizing Human Actions Using NWFE-Based Histogram Vectors |
title_sort | recognizing human actions using nwfe based histogram vectors |
url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/453064 |
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