Action recognition with skeletal volume and deep learning

The use of depth sensors in activity recognition is a technology that emerges in human computer interaction and motion recognition. In this study, an approach to identify single-person activities using deep learning on depth image sequences is presented. First, a 3D volumetric template is generated using skeletal information obtained from a depth video. The generated 3D volume is used for extracting features by taking images from different angles at different volumes. Actions are recognized by extracting deep features using AlexNet model [1] and Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) features from these images. The proposed method has been tested with MSRAction3D [2] and UTHKinect-Action3D [2] datasets. The obtained results were comparable to similar studies in the literature.