Title
Discriminative two-level feature selection for realistic human action recognition
Abstract
Constructing the bag-of-features model from Space-time interest points (STIPs) has been successfully utilized for human action recognition. However, how to eliminate a large number of irrelevant STIPs for representing a specific action in realistic scenarios as well as how to select discriminative codewords for effective bag-of-features model still need to be further investigated. In this paper, we propose to select more representative codewords based on our pruned interest points algorithm so as to reduce computational cost as well as improve recognition performance. By taking human perception into account, attention based saliency map is employed to choose salient interest points which fall into salient regions, since visual saliency can provide strong evidence for the location of acting subjects. After salient interest points are identified, each human action is represented with the bag-of-features model. In order to obtain more discriminative codewords, an unsupervised codeword selection algorithm is utilized. Finally, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) method is employed to perform human action recognition. Comprehensive experimental results on the widely used and challenging Hollywood-2 Human Action (HOHA-2) dataset and YouTube dataset demonstrate that our proposed method is computationally efficient while achieving improved performance in recognizing realistic human actions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.jvcir.2013.07.001
J. Visual Communication and Image Representation
Keywords
Field
DocType
interest point,human action,human perception,discriminative codewords,bag-of-features model,realistic human action,discriminative two-level feature selection,salient interest point,specific action,space-time interest point,realistic human action recognition,human action recognition,support vector machine
Feature selection,Action recognition,Code word,Artificial intelligence,Discriminative model,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Support vector machine,Selection algorithm,Perception,Machine learning,Mathematics,Salient
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
7
1047-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.40
35
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiuxia Wu11039.25
Zhiyong Wang255051.76
Feiqi Deng346871.73
Yong Xia450950.44
Wenxiong Kang510217.58
David Dagan Feng63329413.76