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Recognizing physical activity from Ego-motion of a camera

  • Hong Zhang
  • , Lu Li
  • , Wenyan Jia
  • , John D. Fernstrom
  • , Robert J. Sclabassi
  • , Mingui Sun*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A new image based activity recognition method for a person wearing a video camera below the neck is presented in this paper. The wearable device is used to capture video data in front of the wearer. Although the wearer never appears in the video, his or her physical activity is analyzed and recognized using the recorded scene changes resulting from the motion of the wearer. Correspondence features are extracted from adjacent frames and inaccurate matches are removed based on a set of constraints imposed by the camera model. Motion histograms are defined and calculated within a frame and we define a new feature called accumulated motion distribution derived from motion statistics in each frame. A Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is trained with this feature and used to classify physical activities in different scenes. Our results show that different types of activities can be recognized in low resolution, field acquired real-world video.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
Pages5569-5572
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2010 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Duration: 31 Aug 20104 Sep 2010

Publication series

Name2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Conference

Conference2010 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
Country/TerritoryArgentina
CityBuenos Aires
Period31/08/104/09/10

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