Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jun-Wei Hsieh
• Yung-Tai Hsu
• Liao, H.-Y.M.
• Chih-Chiang Chen

Titel

Video-Based Human Movement Analysis and Its Application to Surveillance Systems

Ist Teil von

• IEEE transactions on multimedia, 2008-04, Vol.10 (3), p.372-384

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper presents a novel posture classification system that analyzes human movements directly from video sequences. In the system, each sequence of movements is converted into a posture sequence. To better characterize a posture in a sequence, we triangulate it into triangular meshes, from which we extract two features: the skeleton feature and the centroid context feature. The first feature is used as a coarse representation of the subject, while the second is used to derive a finer description. We adopt a depth-first search (dfs) scheme to extract the skeletal features of a posture from the triangulation result. The proposed skeleton feature extraction scheme is more robust and efficient than conventional silhouette-based approaches. The skeletal features extracted in the first stage are used to extract the centroid context feature, which is a finer representation that can characterize the shape of a whole body or body parts. The two descriptors working together make human movement analysis a very efficient and accurate process because they generate a set of key postures from a movement sequence. The ordered key posture sequence is represented by a symbol string. Matching two arbitrary action sequences then becomes a symbol string matching problem. Our experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method is a robust, accurate, and powerful tool for human movement analysis.