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3D action recognition from novel viewpoints

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Publication date27/06/2016
Host publication2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
PublisherIEEE
Pages1506-1515
Number of pages10
ISBN (print)9781467388511
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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Name2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

We propose a human pose representation model that transfers human poses acquired from different unknown views to a view-invariant high-level space. The model is a deep convolutional neural network and requires a large corpus of multiview training data which is very expensive to acquire. Therefore, we propose a method to generate this data by fitting synthetic 3D human models to real motion capture data and rendering the human poses from numerous viewpoints. While learning the CNN model, we do not use action labels but only the pose labels after clustering all training poses into k clusters. The proposed model is able to generalize to real depth images of unseen poses without the need for re-training or fine-tuning. Real depth videos are passed through the model frame-wise to extract view-invariant features. For spatio-temporal representation, we propose group sparse Fourier Temporal Pyramid which robustly encodes the action specific most discriminative output features of the proposed human pose model. Experiments on two multiview and three single-view benchmark datasets show that the proposed method dramatically outperforms existing state-of-the-art in action recognition.