Improved strategy for human action recognition; experiencing a cascaded design

Abstract

Human motion analysis has received a lot of attention in the computer vision community during the last few years. This research domain is supported by a wide spectrum of applications including video surveillance, patient monitoring systems, and pedestrian detection, to name a few. In this study, an improved cascaded design for human motion analysis is presented; it consolidates four phases: (i) acquisition and preprocessing, (ii) frame segmentation, (iii) features extraction and dimensionality reduction, and (iv) classification. The implemented architecture takes advantage of CIE-Lab and National Television System Committee colour spaces, and also performs contrast stretching using the proposed red–green–blue* colour space enhancement technique. A parallel design utilising attention-based motion estimation and segmentation module is also proposed in order to avoid the detection of false moving regions. In addition to these contributions, the proposed feature selection technique called entropy controlled principal components with weights minimisation, further improves the classification accuracy. The authors claims are supported with a comparison between six state-of-the-art classifiers tested on five standard benchmark data sets including Weizmann, KTH, UIUC, Muhavi, and WVU, where the results reveal an improved correct classification rate of 96.55, 99.50, 99.40, 100, and 100%, respectively.