Recognising human actions by analysing negative spaces

• Main Authors: Rahman, S. A., Leung, Maylor Karhang, Cho, Siu-Yeung
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107336; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16663
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The authors propose a novel region-based method to recognise human actions. Other region-based approaches work on silhouette of the human body, which is termed as the positive space according to art theory. In contrast, the authors investigate and analyse regions surrounding the human body, termed a...