Real-time RGB-D activity prediction by soft regression

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for predicting ongoing activities captured by a low-cost depth camera. Our approach avoids a usual assumption in existing activity prediction systems that the progress level of ongoing sequence is given. We overcome this limitation by learning a soft label for each subsequence and develop a soft regression framework for activity prediction to learn both predictor and soft labels jointly. In order to make activity prediction work in a real-time manner, we introduce a new RGB-D feature called “local accumulative frame feature (LAFF)”, which can be computed efficiently by constructing an integral feature map. Our experiments on two RGB-D benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed regression-based activity prediction model outperforms existing models significantly and also show that the activity prediction on RGB-D sequence is more accurate than that on RGB channel.