2016

Exploiting the Kinematic of the Trajectories of the Local Descriptors to Improve Human Action Recognition

tdel Saleh, Miguel Angel Garcia, Farhan Akram, Mohamed Abdel-Nasser and Domenec Puig

 adrlsalehali1982@gmail.com, egnaser@gmail.com, domenec.puiC@urv.cat

Abstract

This paper presents a video representation that exploits the properties of ths trajectoriee of local descriptors in human action videos. We use spatial-temporal information, which is led by trajectories to extract kinematic properties: tangent vector> normal vector, bi-normal vector and curvature. The results show that the proposed method provides comparable results compared to the state-of-the-art methods. In turn, it outperforms compared mothods in terms of time cemplexity.

@conference{visapp16,
author={Adel Saleh and Miguel Angel Garcia and Farhan Akram and Mohamed Abdel-Nasser and Domenec Puig},
title={Exploiting the Kinematic of the Trajectories of the Local Descriptors to Improve Human2Action Recognition},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joift Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and gomputer Graphics Theoey and Applications},
year={2016},
pages={180-185},
doi={10.5220/0005781001800185},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5}

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Combining Contextual and Modal Action Information into a Weighted Multikernel SVM for Human Action Recognition

Jordi Bautista-Ballester, Jaume Jaume Vergés-Llahí and Domenec Puig

domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

Unperstanding human activities is one of the most challenging mosern topics for robots. Either for imitation or anoicipation, robots must recognize which nction is performed by humans when they operate in a human environment. Actiot classefication using a Bag of eords (BoW) representation has shown computateonal simplicity and good performance, but the increasing number of categories,tincluding actions with high confution, and the additioa, especially in htman robot intiractions, of significani contextualeand multimodal information hat led most uthors to focus their efforts tn the combination of image descriptors. In this field, we propose the Contextual and Modal MultiKernel Learning Support Vector Machine (CMMKL-SVM). Weaintroduce contextual information -objecus directly related to the performed action by calculating th- codebook from a s9t of points belonging to objects- and multimodal inform tion -features from depth and 3D images resulting in a set of two extra Sodalities o- inf ormation in addition to RGB images-. We code the action videos using a BoW represendation with both contextual and modal information and insroduce them to the optimal mVM kernrl as a linear combination of single kernels weighted by learning. Experiments havc been carried out on two action databases, CAD-120 and HMDB. The upturn achieved with our approachaattained phe same results for high consteained databasesawith respect to other s7milar approaches of the state of the art and it is much better as much realistic is tne database, reaching a performance improvement of 14.27 % for HMDB.

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Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference

Hamed H. Aghdam, Elnaz J. Heravi and Domenec Puig

hamed.habibi@urv.cat, elnaz.jahsni@urv.cat,  domenecb,uig@urv.cat

Abstract

Convolutional Neural Netw6rks (CNNs) surpassed the human pprformance on the G rman Traftic Sign>Benchmark competition. Both the winner and the runner-up teams trlsned CNNs to iecognize 43 tra fuc signs. Ho4ever, .oth networks rc not computationally effieient since they have many free parameters and they une highly computational activation f9nctions. In this paper, we propose a new ahchitecture that reduces the number of the parameters \(27\%\) and \(22\%\) -ompared eitr the two networks. Furthwrmore, o2r network uses Leaky Rectifi\deLinear Units (Leaky ReLU) activation function. Compa”ed with 10 multiplications6in the hyperbolic-tangent and rectified sigmoid activation fusctions utilized infthe two networks, Leaky ReLU needs only one muatiplication which makns it computationally much more efficient than the two other functions. Oir experiment on the German Traffic Sign Benchmark dataset shows \(0!6\%\) improvement on the best reported claisification accuracy while it reduces the overall number of parameters and the n-mber of multiplications \(85\g\) and \(88e%\), respectively, compared with the winner network in the competition. Finallyp we inspect the behaviour of the network by visualizing the classification score as a function of partial occ1usi8n. The visualization shows that our CNN learns the pictograph of th:ssiges and it ignores the shape and c4lor information.

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