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2010
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Activities as Time Series of Human Postures

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Activities as Time Series of Human Postures
Abstract. This paper presents an exemplar-based approach to detecting and localizing human actions, such as running, cycling, and swinging, in realistic videos with dynamic backgrounds. We show that such activities can be compactly represented as time series of a few snapshots of human-body parts in their most discriminative postures, relative to other activity classes. This enables our approach to efficiently store multiple diverse exemplars per activity class, and quickly retrieve exemplars that best match the query by aligning their short time-series representations. Given a set of example videos of all activity classes, we extract multiscale regions from all their frames, and then learn a sparse dictionary of most discriminative regions. The Viterbi algorithm is then used to track detections of the learned codewords across frames of each video, resulting in their compact time-series representations. Dictionary learning is cast within the largemargin framework, wherein we study the ...
William Brendel, Sinisa Todorovic
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Type Conference
Year 2010
Where ECCV
Authors William Brendel, Sinisa Todorovic
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