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2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Dynamic Events as Mixtures of Spatial and Temporal Features
Authors : Karteek Alahari, C. V. Jawahar
Published in: Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Dynamic events comprise of spatiotemporal atomic units. In this paper we model them using a mixture model. Events are represented using a framework based on the Mixture of Factor Analyzers (MFA) model. It is to be noted that our framework is generic and is applicable for any mixture modelling scheme. The MFA, used to demonstrate the novelty of our approach, clusters events into spatially coherent mixtures in a low dimensional space. Based the observations that, (i) events comprise of varying degrees of spatial and temporal characteristics, and (ii) the number of mixtures determines the composition of these features, a method that incorporates models with varying number of mixtures is proposed. For a given event, the relative importance of each model component is estimated, thereby choosing the appropriate feature composition. The capabilities of the proposed framework are demonstrated with an application: recognition of events such as hand gestures, activities.