Action Recognition Using Stationary Wavelet-Based Motion Images

Human action recognition is one of the most important fields in computer vision, because of the large number of applications that employ action recognition. Many techniques have been proposed for representing and classifying actions; yet these tasks are still non-trivial due to a number of challenges and characteristics. In this paper, a new action representation method is proposed. The proposed method utilizes the 3D Stationary Wavelet Analysis to encode the spatio-temporal characteristics of the motion available in the video sequences in a way similar to motion history images. The proposed representation was tested using Weizmann dataset, exhibiting promising results when compared to the existing state – of – the – art methods.

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