Recognising human actions by analysing negative spaces

IET Computer Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 197-213

  Rahman, S A ^a   Cho, S Y ^a   Leung, M K H ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION RECOGNITION; BACKGROUND SEGMENTATION; DATA SETS; HUMAN ACTIONS; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN-ACTION RECOGNITION; NEGATIVE REGIONS; REGION-BASED; REGION-BASED METHODS; SEGMENTATION ERROR; SPACE REGIONS;

ERRORS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; IMAGE RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SEMANTICS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 84861174805     PISSN: 17519632     EISSN: 17519640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cvi.2011.0185     Document Type: Article

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