Improved spatio-temporal salient feature detection for action recognition

BMVC 2011 - Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Shabani, Amir H ^a   Clausi, David A ^a   Zelek, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ACTION RECOGNITION; AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; ASYMMETRIC FILTERING; GEOMETRIC VARIATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SALIENT FEATURE DETECTIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL FEATURES; TEMPORAL FILTERING;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 84898483375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5244/C25.100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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