Negative space analysis for human action recognition

• Main Author: Shah Atiqur Rahman
• Other Authors: Leung Karhang, Maylor
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/50706
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this thesis a novel region-based method is proposed to recognize human actions. Other region-based approaches work on the silhouette of the human body which is termed as the positive space according to art theory. On the contrary, we investigate and analyze regions surrounding the human body, ter...