Am I Done? Predicting Action Progress in Videos

In this paper we deal with the problem of predicting action progress in videos. We argue that this is an extremely important task since it can be valuable for a wide range of interaction applications. To this end we introduce a novel approach, named ProgressNet, capable of predicting when an action takes place in a video, where it is located within the frames, and how far it has progressed during its execution. To provide a general definition of action progress, we ground our work in the linguistics literature, borrowing terms and concepts to understand which actions can be the subject of progress estimation. As a result, we define a categorization of actions and their phases. Motivated by the recent success obtained from the interaction of Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks, our model is based on a combination of the Faster R-CNN framework, to make frame-wise predictions, and LSTM networks, to estimate action progress through time. After introducing two evaluation protocols for the task at hand, we demonstrate the capability of our model to effectively predict action progress on the UCF-101 and J-HMDB datasets

Large-Scale Mapping of Human Activity using Geo-Tagged Videos

This paper is the first work to perform spatio-temporal mapping of human activity using the visual content of geo-tagged videos. We utilize a recent deep-learning based video analysis framework, termed hidden two-stream networks, to recognize a range of activities in YouTube videos. This framework is efficient and can run in real time or faster which is important for recognizing events as they occur in streaming video or for reducing latency in analyzing already captured video. This is, in turn, important for using video in smart-city applications. We perform a series of experiments to show our approach is able to accurately map activities both spatially and temporally. We also demonstrate the advantages of using the visual content over the tags/titles.Comment: Accepted at ACM SIGSPATIAL 201

New Hybrid Deep Learning Method to Recognize Human Action from Video

There has been a tremendous increase in internet users and enough bandwidth in recent years. Because Internet connectivity is so inexpensive, information sharing (text, audio, and video) has become more popular and faster. This video content must be examined in order to classify it for different purposes for users. Several machine learning approaches for video classification have been developed to save users time and energy. The use of deep neural networks to recognize human behavior has become a popular issue in recent years. Although significant progress has been made in the field of video recognition, there are still numerous challenges in the realm of video to be overcome. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are well-known for requiring a fixed-size image input, which limits the network topology and reduces identification accuracy. Despite the fact that this problem has been solved in the world of photos, it has yet to be solved in the area of video. We present a ten stacked three-dimensional (3D) convolutional network based on the spatial pyramid-based pooling to handle the input problem of fixed size video frames in video recognition. The network structure is made up of three sections, as the name suggests: a ten-layer stacked 3DCNN, DenseNet, and SPPNet. A KTH dataset was used to test our algorithms. The experimental findings showed that our model outperformed existing models in the area of video-based behavior identification by 2% margin accuracy

Attributes and action recognition based on convolutional neural networks and spatial pyramid VLAD encoding

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.Determination of human attributes and recognition of actions in still images are two related and challenging tasks in computer vision, which often appear in fine-grained domains where the distinctions between the different categories are very small. Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have demonstrated their remarkable representational learning capability through various examples. However, the successes are very limited for attributes and action recognition as the potential of CNNs to acquire both of the global and local information of an image remains largely unexplored. This paper proposes to tackle the problem with an encoding of a spatial pyramid Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors (VLAD) on top of CNN features. With region proposals generated by Edgeboxes, a compact and efficient representation of an image is thus produced for subsequent prediction of attributes and classification of actions. The proposed scheme is validated with competitive results on two benchmark datasets: 90.4% mean Average Precision (mAP) on the Berkeley Attributes of People dataset and 88.5% mAP on the Stanford 40 action dataset