3D Motion Data aided Human Action Recognition and Pose Estimation

3D Motion Data aided Human Action Recognition and Pose Estimation

Place: Large Lecture Room

Affiliation: Computer Vision Centre and Dep. of Computer Science, UAB.  

In this work, we explore human action recognition and pose estimation problems. Different from traditional works of learning from 2D images or video sequences and their annotated output, we seek to solve the problems with additional 3D motion capture information, which helps to fill the gap between 2D image features and human interpretations.

We first compare two different schools of approaches commonly used for 3D pose estimation from 2D pose configuration: modeling and learning methods. By looking into experiments results and considering our problems, we fixed a learning method as the following approaches to do pose estimation. We then establish a framework by adding a module of detecting 2D pose configuration from images with varied background, which widely extend the application of the approach. We also seek to directly estimate 3D poses from image features, instead of estimating 2D poses as a intermediate module. We explore a robust input feature, which combined with the proposed distance measure, provides a solution for noisy or corrupted inputs. We further utilize the above method to estimate weak poses,which is a concise representation of the original poses by using dimension deduction technologies, from image features. Weak pose space is where we calculate vocabulary and label action types using a bog of words pipeline. Temporal information of an action is taken into consideration by considering several consecutive frames as a single unit for computing vocabulary and histogram assignments.

  Thesis Wenjuan Gong