Title
On the improvement of human action recognition from depth map sequences using Space-Time Occupancy Patterns
Abstract
We present a new visual representation for 3D action recognition from sequences of depth maps. In this new representation, space and time axes are divided into multiple segments to define a 4D grid for each depth map sequences. Each cell in the grid is associated with an occupancy value which is a function of the number of space-time points falling into this cell. The occupancy values of all the cells form a high dimensional feature vector, called Space-Time Occupancy Pattern (STOP). We then perform dimensionality reduction to obtain lower-dimensional feature vectors. The advantage of STOP is that it preserves spatial and temporal contextual information between space and time cells while being flexible enough to accommodate intra-action variations. Furthermore, we combine depth maps with skeletons in order to obtain view invariance and present an automatic segmentation and time alignment method for on-line recognition of depth sequences. Our visual representation is validated with experiments on a public 3D human action dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.patrec.2013.07.011
Pattern Recognition Letters
Keywords
DocType
Volume
time alignment method,space-time occupancy patterns,occupancy value,new visual representation,visual representation,depth map sequence,depth sequence,depth map,time cell,new representation,time axis,human action recognition,pattern recognition
Journal
36,
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0167-8655
26
0.78
References 
Authors
24
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio W. Vieira1833.18
Erickson R. Do Nascimento226523.10
Gabriel Leivas Oliveira32259.70
zicheng liu43662199.64
Mario F. M. Campos51069.17