A pair hidden Markov support vector machine for alignment of human actions
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- Conference Proceeding
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- Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2016, 2016-August
- Issue Date:
- 2016-08-25
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© 2016 IEEE. Alignment of human actions in videos is an important task for applications such as action comparison and classification. While well-established algorithms such as dynamic time warping are available for this task, they still heavily rely on basic linear cost models and heuristic parameter tuning. In this paper we propose a novel framework that combines the flexibility of the pair hidden Markov model (PHMM) with the effective parameter training of the structural support vector machine (SSVM). The framework extends the scoring function of SSVM to capture the similarity of two input sequences and introduces suitable feature and loss functions. The proposed approach is evaluated against state-of-the-art algorithms such as dynamic time warping (DTW) and canonical time warping (CTW) on pairs of human actions from the Weizmann and Olympic Sports datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is capable of achieving an accuracy improvement of over 7 percentage points over the runner-up on both datasets.
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