Recognizing human action at a distance in video by key poses

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1228-1241

  Mukherjee, Snehasis ^a   Biswas, Sujoy Kumar ^a   Mukherjee, Dipti Prasad ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Action recognition; centrality measure; key pose

Indexed keywords

ACTION RECOGNITION; CENTRALITY MEASURES; CODEBOOKS; DATA SETS; DESCRIPTORS; GRAPH CONNECTIVITY; GRAPH-THEORETIC TECHNIQUE; HUMAN ACTIONS; KEY POSE; LARGE VOCABULARY; MOTION PATTERN; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FEATURE VECTORS; POSE INFORMATION; VIDEO FRAME; VISUAL WORD;

DATA PROCESSING; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE RECOGNITION; OPTICAL FLOWS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 80052518600     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2011.2135290     Document Type: Article

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