Title
A Better Trajectory Shape Descriptor For Human Activity Recognition
Abstract
Sparse representation is one of the most popular methods for human activity recognition. Sparse representation describes a video by a set of independent descriptors. Each of these descriptors usually captures the local information of the video. These features are then mapped to another space, using Fisher Vectors, and an SVM is used for clustering them. One of the sparse representation methods proposed in the literature uses trajectories as features. Trajectories have been shown to be discriminative in many previous works on human activity recognition. In this paper, a more formal definition is given to trajectories and a new more effective trajectory shape descriptor is proposed. We tested the proposed method against our challenging dataset and demonstrated through experiments that our new trajectory descriptor outperforms the previously existing main shape descriptor with a good margin. For example, in one case the obtained results had a 5.58% improvement, compared to the existing trajectory shape descriptor. We run our tests over sparse feature sets, and we are able to reach comparable results to a dense sampling method, with fewer computations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-59876-5_37
IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION, ICIAR 2017
Keywords
Field
DocType
Human activity recognition, Trajectory descriptor, Trajectory encoding, Shape descriptor, Shape encoding
Computer vision,Activity recognition,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Sparse approximation,Support vector machine,Sampling (statistics),Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Discriminative model,Trajectory,Computation
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10317
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pejman Habashi141.79
Boubakeur Boufama216222.02
Imran Shafiq Ahmad34311.20