Incremental slow feature analysis with indefinite kernel for online temporal video segmentation

Abstract

Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) is a subspace learning method inspired by the human visual system, however, it is seldom seen in computer vision. Motivated by its application for unsupervised activity analysis, we develop SFA's first implementation of online temporal video segmentation to detect episodes of motion changes. We utilize a domain-specific indefinite kernel which takes the data representation into account to introduce robustness. As our kernel is indefinite (i.e. defines instead of a Hilbert, a Krein space), we formulate SFA in Krein space. We propose an incremental kernel SFA framework which utilizes the special properties of our kernel. Finally, we employ our framework to online temporal video segmentation and perform qualitative and quantitative evaluation. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.