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Improving human action recognition using score distribution and ranking

  • Minh Hoai
  • , Andrew Zisserman
  • University of Oxford

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Abstract

We propose two complementary techniques to improve the performance of action recognition systems. The first technique addresses the temporal interval ambiguity of actions by learning a classifier score distribution over video subsequences. A classifier based on this score distribution is shown to be more effective than using the maximum or average scores. The second technique learns a classifier for the relative values of action scores, capturing the correlation and exclusion between action classes. Both techniques are simple and have efficient implementations using a Least-Squares SVM. We demonstrate that taken together the techniques exceed the state-of-the-art performance by a wide margin on challenging benchmarks for human actions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision - ACCV 2014 - 12th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsDaniel Cremers, Hideo Saito, Ian Reid, Ming-Hsuan Yang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages3-20
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9783319168135
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event12th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2014 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: Nov 1 2014Nov 5 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9007
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2014
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period11/1/1411/5/14

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