Learning a discriminative mid-level feature for action recognition

Science China Information Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1-13

  Liu, CuiWei ^a   Pei, MingTao ^a   Wu, XinXiao ^a   Kong, Yu ^a   Jia, YunDe ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

action recognition; feature fusion; mid level feature; temporal context

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; GRAPHIC METHODS; OPTICAL FLOWS;

ACTION RECOGNITION; CLUTTERED BACKGROUNDS; FEATURE FUSION; HISTOGRAM OF GRADIENTS; MID-LEVEL FEATURES; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TEMPORAL CONTEXT;

RANDOM FORESTS;

EID: 84899489555     PISSN: 1674733X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-013-4938-y     Document Type: Article

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