Recognizing human actions based on motion information and SVM

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new system for human action recognition with a view to applications in security systems, man-machine communications and intelligent environments. Our system is based on very simple features in order to achieve high-speed recognition in real-world applications. We have chosen three main techniques to build a system that can work in real-time. Firstly, we choose motion history images and related features. Secondly, we use a template matching methods instead of state-space methods that need expensive modelling processes; finally, we use linear classifier support vector machine (SVM) for fast classification. Experimental results show that this system can achieve good performance in human action recognition in realtime embedded applications, such as intelligent environments. (7 pages)