Title
Recognizing Daily Activities From First-Person Videos With Multi-Task Clustering
Abstract
The widespread adoption of low-cost wearable devices requires novel paradigms for analysing human behaviour. In particular, when focusing on first-person cameras continuously recording several hours of the users life, the task of activity recognition is especially challenging. As a huge amount of unlabeled data is automatically generated in this scenario, despite recent notable attempts, more scalable algorithms and more effective feature representations are required. In this paper, we address the problem of everyday activity recognition from visual data gathered from a wearable camera proposing a novel multitask learning framework. We argue that, even if label information is not provided, we can take advantage of the fact that the tasks of recognizing activities of daily life of multiple individuals are related, i. e. typically people tend to perform the same actions in the same environment (e. g. people at home in the morning typically have breakfast and brush their teeth). To exploit this information we propose a novel multi-task clustering approach. With our method, rather than clustering data from different users separately, we look for data partitions which are similar among related tasks. Thorough experiments on two publicly available first-person vision datasets demonstrate that the proposed approach consistently and significantly outperforms several state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-16817-3_34
COMPUTER VISION - ACCV 2014, PT IV
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Activities of daily living,Activity recognition,Wearable computer,Computer science,Exploit,Human–computer interaction,Scalable algorithms,Artificial intelligence,Non-negative matrix factorization,Cluster analysis,Wearable technology
Conference
9006
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
9
0.52
References 
Authors
19
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan Yan169131.13
Elisa Ricci 00022139373.75
Gaowen Liu336311.87
Nicu Sebe47013403.03