Computational Vision Approaches for Event Modeling

Understanding Events: From Perception to Action

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Chellappa, Rama ^a   Cuntoor, Naresh P ^a   Joo, Seong Wook ^a   Subrahmanian, V S ^a   Turaga, Pavan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Baum Welch; Computational efficiency; Event modelling systems; Event perception; Event recognition; Hidden markov model; Video sequences; Viterbi

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891705145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0021     Document Type: Chapter

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