Abstract:
This paper proposes a novel activity recognition approach from video data obtained with a wearable camera. The objective is to recognise the user's activities from a tiny...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
This paper proposes a novel activity recognition approach from video data obtained with a wearable camera. The objective is to recognise the user's activities from a tiny front-facing camera embedded in his/her glasses. Our system allows carers to remotely access the current status of a specified person, which can be broadly applied to those living with disabilities including the elderly who require cognitive assistance or guidance for daily activities. We collected, trained and tested our system on videos collected from different environmental settings. Sequences of four basic activities (drinking, walking, going upstairs and downstairs) are tested and evaluated in challenging real-world scenarios. An optical flow procedure is used as our primary feature extraction method, from which we downsize, reformat and classify sequence of activities using k-Nearest Neighbour algorithm (k-NN), LogitBoost (on Decision Stumps) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). We suggest the optimal settings of these classifiers through cross-validations and achieve an accuracy of 54.2% to 71.9%. Further smoothing using Hidden Markov Model (HMM) improves the result to 68.5%-82.1%.
Date of Conference: 05-07 December 2012
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 25 March 2013
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- IEEE Keywords
- Index Terms
- Action Recognition ,
- Wearable Cameras ,
- Walking ,
- Support Vector Machine ,
- K-nearest Neighbor ,
- Sequence Of Actions ,
- Hidden Markov Model ,
- Feature Extraction Methods ,
- Optical Flow ,
- Accelerometer ,
- Linear Discriminant Analysis ,
- Class Structure ,
- Image Pairs ,
- Average Pooling ,
- Single Frame ,
- Monocular ,
- Radial Basis Function Kernel ,
- Smart Home ,
- Training Videos ,
- Independent Classification ,
- Flow Motion ,
- Histogram Of Oriented Gradients ,
- Highest Increment ,
- Weak Learners ,
- Electrooculography ,
- Number Of Videos ,
- Near-field Imaging
Keywords assist with retrieval of results and provide a means to discovering other relevant content. Learn more.
- IEEE Keywords
- Index Terms
- Action Recognition ,
- Wearable Cameras ,
- Walking ,
- Support Vector Machine ,
- K-nearest Neighbor ,
- Sequence Of Actions ,
- Hidden Markov Model ,
- Feature Extraction Methods ,
- Optical Flow ,
- Accelerometer ,
- Linear Discriminant Analysis ,
- Class Structure ,
- Image Pairs ,
- Average Pooling ,
- Single Frame ,
- Monocular ,
- Radial Basis Function Kernel ,
- Smart Home ,
- Training Videos ,
- Independent Classification ,
- Flow Motion ,
- Histogram Of Oriented Gradients ,
- Highest Increment ,
- Weak Learners ,
- Electrooculography ,
- Number Of Videos ,
- Near-field Imaging