Imperial College London
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ProfessorKrystianMikolajczyk

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor in Computer Vision and Machine Learning
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6220k.mikolajczyk

 
 
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Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{De:2011:10.1109/WACV.2011.5711524,
author = {De, Campos T and Barnard, M and Mikolajczyk, K and Kittler, J and Yan, F and Christmas, W and Windridge, D},
doi = {10.1109/WACV.2011.5711524},
pages = {344--351},
title = {An evaluation of bags-of-words and spatio-temporal shapes for action recognition},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711524},
year = {2011}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Bags-of-visual-Words (BoW) and Spatio-Temporal Shapes (STS) are two very popular approaches for action recognition from video. The former (BoW) is an un-structured global representation of videos which is built using a large set of local features. The latter (STS) uses a single feature located on a region of interest (where the actor is) in the video. Despite the popularity of these methods, no comparison between them has been done. Also, given that BoW and STS differ intrinsically in terms of context inclusion and globality/locality of operation, an appropriate evaluation framework has to be designed carefully. This paper compares these two approaches using four different datasets with varied degree of space-time specificity of the actions and varied relevance of the contextual background. We use the same local feature extraction method and the same classifier for both approaches. Further to BoW and STS, we also evaluated novel variations of BoW constrained in time or space. We observe that the STS approach leads to better results in all datasets whose background is of little relevance to action classification. © 2010 IEEE.
AU  - De,Campos T
AU  - Barnard,M
AU  - Mikolajczyk,K
AU  - Kittler,J
AU  - Yan,F
AU  - Christmas,W
AU  - Windridge,D
DO  - 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711524
EP  - 351
PY  - 2011///
SP  - 344
TI  - An evaluation of bags-of-words and spatio-temporal shapes for action recognition
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711524
ER  -
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