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Action Categorization from Video Sequences

Jean-Christophe Baillie, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia

This article presents a framework for extracting relevant qualitative chunks from a video sequence. The notion of qualitative descriptors, used to perform the qualitative extraction, will be first described. A grouping algorithm operates on the qualitative descriptions to generate a real-time qualitative segmentation of the image flow. Then, simple pattern recognition methods are used to extract abstract description of basic actions such as "push", "take" or "pull". The method proposed here provides an unsupervised learning technique to generate abstract description of actions from a video sequence.

Keywords: Perception, Qualitative Reasoning, Signal Understanding, Vision

Citation: Jean-Christophe Baillie, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia: Action Categorization from Video Sequences. In W.Horn (ed.): ECAI2000, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2000, pp.643-647.


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