A novel feature fusion based Human Action Recognition in 2D Videos

  • Authors

    • K Rajendra Prasad
    • P Srinivasa Rao
    2018-04-18
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.20.13297
  • Human action recognition (HAR), Feature Fusion, Support vector machine, Scale invariant feature transform, Speed up robust features, Histogram of oriented gradient, Local binary patterns.

  • Abstract

    Human action recognition from 2D videos is a demanding area due to its broad applications. Many methods have been proposed by the researchers for recognizing human actions. The improved accuracy in identifying human actions is desirable. This paper presents an improved method of human action recognition using support vector machine (SVM) classifier. This paper proposes a novel feature descriptor constructed by fusing the various investigated features. The handcrafted features such as scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) features, speed up robust features (SURF), histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) features and local binary pattern (LBP) features are obtained on online 2D action videos. The proposed method is tested on different action datasets having both static and dynamically varying backgrounds. The proposed method achieves shows best recognition rates on both static and dynamically varying backgrounds. The datasets considered for the experimentation are KTH, Weizmann, UCF101, UCF sports actions, MSR action and HMDB51.The performance of the proposed feature fusion model with SVM classifier is compared with the individual features with SVM. The fusion method showed best results. The efficiency of the classifier is also tested by comparing with the other state of the art classifiers such as k-nearest neighbors (KNN), artificial neural network (ANN) and Adaboost classifier. The method achieved an average of 94.41% recognition rate.

     

     

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    Rajendra Prasad, K., & Srinivasa Rao, P. (2018). A novel feature fusion based Human Action Recognition in 2D Videos. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.20), 207-213. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.20.13297

    Received date: 2018-05-26

    Accepted date: 2018-05-26

    Published date: 2018-04-18