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    Modeling geometric-temporal context with directional pyramid co-occurrence for action recognition

    Yuan, C. and Li, X. and Hu, W. and Ling, H. and Maybank, Stephen J. (2014) Modeling geometric-temporal context with directional pyramid co-occurrence for action recognition. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 23 (2), pp. 658-672. ISSN 1057-7149.

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    Abstract

    In this paper, we present a new geometric-temporal representation for visual action recognition based on local spatio-temporal features. First, we propose a modified covariance descriptor under the log-Euclidean Riemannian metric to represent the spatio-temporal cuboids detected in the video sequences. Compared with previously proposed covariance descriptors, our descriptor can be measured and clustered in Euclidian space. Second, to capture the geometric-temporal contextual information, we construct a directional pyramid co-occurrence matrix (DPCM) to describe the spatio-temporal distribution of the vector-quantized local feature descriptors extracted from a video. DPCM characterizes the co-occurrence statistics of local features as well as the spatio-temporal positional relationships among the concurrent features. These statistics provide strong descriptive power for action recognition. To use DPCM for action recognition, we propose a directional pyramid co-occurrence matching kernel to measure the similarity of videos. The proposed method achieves the state-of-the-art performance and improves on the recognition performance of the bag-of-visual-words (BOVWs) models by a large margin on six public data sets. For example, on the KTH data set, it achieves 98.78% accuracy while the BOVW approach only achieves 88.06%. On both Weizmann and UCF CIL data sets, the highest possible accuracy of 100% is achieved.

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    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
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    Date Deposited: 05 Nov 2015 11:18
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:37
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13350

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