Fast Adaptive Reparametrization (FAR) with Application to Human Action Recognition

in IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2020)

In this paper, a fast approach for curve reparametrization, called Fast Adaptive Reparamterization (FAR), is introduced. Instead of computing an optimal matching between two curves such as Dynamic Time ... [more ▼]

In this paper, a fast approach for curve reparametrization, called Fast Adaptive Reparamterization (FAR), is introduced. Instead of computing an optimal matching between two curves such as Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and elastic distance-based approaches, our method is applied to each curve independently, leading to linear computational complexity. It is based on a simple replacement of the curve parameter by a variable invariant under specific variations of reparametrization. The choice of this variable is heuristically made according to the application of interest. In addition to being fast, the proposed reparametrization can be applied not only to curves observed in Euclidean spaces but also to feature curves living in Riemannian spaces. To validate our approach, we apply it to the scenario of human action recognition using curves living in the Riemannian product Special Euclidean space SE(3) n. The obtained results on three benchmarks for human action recognition (MSRAction3D, Florence3D, and UTKinect) show that our approach competes with state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy and computational cost. [less ▲]

DeepVI: A Novel Framework for Learning Deep View-Invariant Human Action Representations using a Single RGB Camera

in IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Buenos Aires 18-22 May 2020 (2020)

A View-invariant Framework for Fast Skeleton-based Action Recognition Using a Single RGB Camera

in 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Prague, 25-27 February 2018 (2019, February)

View-invariant action recognition using a single RGB camera represents a very challenging topic due to the lack of 3D information in RGB images. Lately, the recent advances in deep learning made it ... [more ▼]

View-invariant action recognition using a single RGB camera represents a very challenging topic due to the lack of 3D information in RGB images. Lately, the recent advances in deep learning made it possible to extract a 3D skeleton from a single RGB image. Taking advantage of this impressive progress, we propose a simple framework for fast and view-invariant action recognition using a single RGB camera. The proposed pipeline can be seen as the association of two key steps. The first step is the estimation of a 3D skeleton from a single RGB image using a CNN-based pose estimator such as VNect. The second one aims at computing view-invariant skeleton-based features based on the estimated 3D skeletons. Experiments are conducted on two well-known benchmarks, namely, IXMAS and Northwestern-UCLA datasets. The obtained results prove the validity of our concept, which suggests a new way to address the challenge of RGB-based view-invariant action recognition. [less ▲]

Localized Trajectories for 2D and 3D Action Recognition

in Sensors (2019)

The Dense Trajectories concept is one of the most successful approaches in action recognition, suitable for scenarios involving a significant amount of motion. However, due to noise and background motion ... [more ▼]

The Dense Trajectories concept is one of the most successful approaches in action recognition, suitable for scenarios involving a significant amount of motion. However, due to noise and background motion, many generated trajectories are irrelevant to the actual human activity and can potentially lead to performance degradation. In this paper, we propose Localized Trajectories as an improved version of Dense Trajectories where motion trajectories are clustered around human body joints provided by RGB-D cameras and then encoded by local Bag-of-Words. As a result, the Localized Trajectories concept provides an advanced discriminative representation of actions. Moreover, we generalize Localized Trajectories to 3D by using the depth modality. One of the main advantages of 3D Localized Trajectories is that they describe radial displacements that are perpendicular to the image plane. Extensive experiments and analysis were carried out on five different datasets. [less ▲]

Key-Skeleton Based Feedback Tool for Assisting Physical Activity

in 2018 Zooming Innovation in Consumer Electronics International Conference (ZINC), 30-31 May 2018 (2018, May 31)

This paper presents an intuitive feedback tool able to implicitly guide motion with respect to a reference movement. Such a tool is important in multiple applications requiring assisting physical ... [more ▼]

This paper presents an intuitive feedback tool able to implicitly guide motion with respect to a reference movement. Such a tool is important in multiple applications requiring assisting physical activities as in sports or rehabilitation. Our proposed approach is based on detecting key skeleton frames from a reference sequence of skeletons. The feedback is based on the 3D geometry analysis of the skeletons by taking into account the key-skeletons. Finally, the feedback is illustrated by a color-coded tool, which reflects the motion accuracy. [less ▲]

Kinematic Spline Curves: A temporal invariant descriptor for fast action recognition

in Image and Vision Computing (2018), 77

Fast and accurate human action recognition using RGB-D cameras

Doctoral thesis (2017)

A fast and accurate motion descriptor for human action recognition applications

in 2016 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) (2016)

Evaluation of an anatomically augmented Statistical Shape Model of the scapula: Clinical validation and reliability of landmark selection. Submited to

in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering. Imaging and Visualization (2015)

Validation d'un Nouveau Modèle Statistique de Scapula Augmenté de Marqueurs Anatomiques

in TAIMA 2015: Traitement et Analyse de l'Information: Méthodes et Applications (2015)