Action recognition based on histogram of oriented gradients and spatio-temporal interest points

Abstract

In modern years large extent of the work has been carried out to recognize human actions perhaps because of its wide range of applications in the field of surveillance, human-machine interaction and video analysis. Several methods were proposed by researchers to resolve action recognition challenges such as variations in viewpoints, occlusion, cluttered backgrounds and camera motion. To address these challenges, we propose a novel method comprise of features extraction using histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), and their classification using k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) and support vector machine (SVM). Six different experimentations were carried out on the basis of hybrid combinations of feature extractors and classifiers. Two gold standard datasets; KTH and Weizmann were used for training and testing purpose. The quantitative parameters such as recognition accuracy, training time and prediction speed were used for evaluation. To validate the applicability of proposed algorithm, its performance has been compared with spatio-temporal interest points (STIP) technique which was proposed as state of art method in the domain.