Cross-View Action Recognition via a Continuous Virtual Path

• Published in: 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition pp. 2690 - 2697
• Main Authors: Zhong Zhang, Chunheng Wang, Baihua Xiao, Wen Zhou, Shuang Liu, Cunzhao Shi
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2013
• Subjects: Feature extraction; Kernel; Pattern recognition; Robustness; Target recognition; Training; Vectors
• ISSN: 1063-6919; 1063-6919
• DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2013.347

In this paper, we propose a novel method for cross-view action recognition via a continuous virtual path which connects the source view and the target view. Each point on this virtual path is a virtual view which is obtained by a linear transformation of the action descriptor. All the virtual views are concatenated into an infinite-dimensional feature to characterize continuous changes from the source to the target view. However, these infinite-dimensional features cannot be used directly. Thus, we propose a virtual view kernel to compute the value of similarity between two infinite-dimensional features, which can be readily used to construct any kernelized classifiers. In addition, there are a lot of unlabeled samples from the target view, which can be utilized to improve the performance of classifiers. Thus, we present a constraint strategy to explore the information contained in the unlabeled samples. The rationality behind the constraint is that any action video belongs to only one class. Our method is verified on the IXMAS dataset, and the experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves better performance than the state-of-the-art methods.