Discriminative Actions for Recognising Events

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Niveau: Supérieur, Doctorat, Bac+8
Discriminative Actions for Recognising Events Karteek Alahari? and C. V. Jawahar Centre for Visual Information Technology, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad 500032, INDIA. Abstract. This paper presents an approach to identify the importance of different parts of a video sequence from the recognition point of view. It builds on the observations that: (1) events consist of more fundamental (or atomic) units, and (2) a discriminant-based approach is more appro- priate for the recognition task, when compared to the standard modelling techniques, such as PCA, HMM, etc. We introduce discriminative actions which describe the usefulness of the fundamental units in distinguishing between events. We first extract actions to capture the fine character- istics of individual parts in the events. These actions are modelled and their usefulness in discriminating between events is estimated as a score. The score highlights the important parts (or actions) of the event from the recognition aspect. Applicability of the approach on different classes of events is demonstrated along with a statistical analysis. 1 Introduction An event may be considered as a long-term temporally varying object, which typically spans over tens or hundreds of frames [1]. The problem of recognising events has received considerable research attention over the past few years [2–7].

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• Oxford Brookes University

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• Publié par: profil-zyak-2012
• Nombre de lectures: 15
• Langue: English

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DiscriminativeActionsforRecognisingEvents KarteekAlahari ? andC.V.Jawahar CentreforVisualInformationTechnology, InternationalInstituteofInformationTechnology,Hyderabad500032,INDIA. [e-mail] Abstract. Thispaperpresentsanapproachtoidentifytheimportance ofdifferentpartsofavideosequencefromtherecognitionpointofview. Itbuildsontheobservationsthat:(1)eventsconsistofmorefundamental (oratomic)units,and(2)adiscriminant-basedapproachismoreappro- priatefortherecognitiontask,whencomparedtothestandardmodelling techniques,suchasPCA,HMM,etc.Weintroduce discriminativeactions whichdescribetheusefulnessofthefundamentalunitsindistinguishing betweenevents.Wefirstextractactionstocapturethefinecharacter- isticsofindividualpartsintheevents.Theseactionsaremodelledand theirusefulnessindiscriminatingbetweeneventsisestimatedasascore. Thescorehighlightstheimportantparts(oractions)oftheeventfrom therecognitionaspect.Applicabilityoftheapproachondifferentclasses ofeventsisdemonstratedalongwithastatisticalanalysis. 1Introduction Aneventmaybeconsideredasalong-termtemporallyvaryingobject,which typicallyspansovertensorhundredsofframes[1].Theproblemofrecognising eventshasreceivedconsiderableresearchattentionoverthepastfewyears[2–7]. Ithasgainedimportancebecauseofitsimmediateapplicabilitytosurveillance, gesturerecognition,signlanguagerecognition,HumanComputerInteraction, etc.[4,8,9].Manyapproacheshavebeenproposedinthepasttorecogniseevents. Earlymethodstypicallyemployed2Dor3Dtrackingtotemporallyisolatethe objectperformingtheevent.Subsequenttotracking,theeventisrecognisedby extractinghigher-orderimagefeatures[6,9].Anexcellentreviewofsuchclassi- calapproachesforeventrecognitioncanbefoundin[2].Owingtotheinherent dynamisminevents,HiddenMarkovModels(HMMs)[10]andFiniteStateMa- chines[5]havebeenpopulartoaddresstheeventrecognitionproblem.Further- more,modelssuchasHMMsprovideelegantwaystoincorporatethevariability inalargecollectionofeventdata. Anothersignificantdirectionineventanalysisresearchistoextractstatic imagefeaturesfromdynamicevents[8,11,12].BobickandDavis[11]introduced MotionHistoryandMotionEnergyImages,whichrepresenttherecencyand spatialdensityofmotionrespectively.Insomesensetheirapproachreducesthe dimensionalityoftheeventrecognitionproblemfroma3Dspatiotemporalspace ?CurrentlyatOxfordBrookesUniversity,UK.