Motion recognition approach to solve overwriting in complex actions

Motion overwriting due to motion self-occlusion is a big concern in motion and activity recognition. This paper presents a directional motion recognition approach that can solve the motion overwriting for complex actions or activities. Optical flow is split into four directions to compute motion templates. These templates are used to create feature vectors by Hu moments. Very satisfactory recognition results are achieved for various complex actions, which encompass motion overwriting. This method is compared with the basic motion history image method and multi-level motion history image method. The latter method professed that it can overcome motion self-occlusion problem and hence we compare these methods for several complex datasets with complex dimensions.