Human motion analysis via axis based representations

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Erdem, Sezen

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Visual analysis of human motion is one of the active research areas in computer vision. The trend shifts from computing motion fields to understanding actions. In this thesis, an action coding scheme based on trajectories of the features calculated with respect to a part based coordinate system is presented. The part based coordinate system is formed using an axis based representation. The features are extracted from images segmented in the form of silhouettes. We present some preliminary experiments that demonstrate the potential of the method in action similarity analysis.

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Electronic Computers., Computer Science.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608815/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17126

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S. Erdem, “Human motion analysis via axis based representations,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.