Predicting Human Activities using Spatio-Temporal Structure of Interest Points
- Gang Yu ,
- Junsong Yuan ,
- Zicheng Liu
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Early recognition and prediction of human activities are of great importance in video surveillance, e.g., by recognizing a criminal activity at its beginning stage, it is possible to avoid unfortunate outcomes. We address early activity recognition by developing a Spatial-Temporal Implicit Shape Model (STISM), which characterizes the space-time structure of the sparse local features extracted from a video. The early recognition of human activities is accomplished by pattern matching through STISM. To enable efficient and robust matching, we propose a new random forest structure, called multi-class balanced random forest, which makes a good trade-off between the balance of the trees and the discriminative abilities. The prediction is done simultaneously for multiple classes, which saves both the memory and computational cost. The experiments show that our algorithm significantly outperforms the state of the arts for the human activity prediction problem.
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