Human action recognition based on convolutional neural network and spatial pyramid representation

Abstract

Detecting and recognizing human action in natural scenarios, such as indoor and outdoor, is a significant technique in computer vision and intelligent systems, which is widely applied in video surveillance, pedestrian tracking and human-computer interaction. Conventional approaches have been proposed based on various features and achieved impressive performance. However, these methods failed to cope with partial occlusion and changes of posture. In order to address these limitations, we propose a novel human action recognition method. More specifically, in order to capture image spatial composition, we leverage a three-level spatial pyramid feature extraction scheme, where each pyramid is encoded by local features. Thereafter, regions generated by a proposal algorithm are fed into a dual-aggregation net for deep representation extraction. Afterwards, both local features and deep features are fused to describe each image. To describe human action category, we design a metric CXQDA based on Cosine measure and Cross-view Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (XQDA) to calculate the similarity among different action categories. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method can effectively cope with object scale variations, partial occlusion and achieve competitive performance.