Human activity recognition with action primitives

This paper considers the link between tracking algorithms and high-level human behavioural analysis, introducing the action primitives model that recovers symbolic labels from tracked limb configurations. The model consists of similar short-term actions, action primitives clusters, formed automatically and then labelled by supervised learning. The model allows both short actions and longer activities, either periodic or aperiodic. New labels are added incrementally. We determine the effects of model parameters on the labelling of action primitives using ground truth derived from a motion capture system. We also present a representative example of a labelled video sequence.