Understanding action recognition in still images

Abstract

Action recognition in still images is closely related to various other computer vision tasks such as pose estimation, object recognition, image retrieval, video action recognition and frame tagging in videos. This problem is focused on recognizing a person's action or behavior using a single frame. Unlike action recognition in videos - a relatively very well established area of research where spatio-temporal features are used, these are not available for still images, making the problem more challenging. In the present work only actions that involve objects are considered. A complex action is broken down into components based on semantics. The importance of each of these components in action recognition is systematically studied.