Video-based human behavior understanding: A survey

PVK Borges, N Conci… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding human behaviors is a challenging problem in computer vision that has
recently seen important advances. Human behavior understanding combines image and …

Semisupervised multiview distance metric learning for cartoon synthesis

J Yu, M Wang, D Tao - IEEE transactions on image processing, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In image processing, cartoon character classification, retrieval, and synthesis are critical, so
that cartoonists can effectively and efficiently make cartoons by reusing existing cartoon …

Character recognition in natural scene images using rank-1 tensor decomposition

M Ali, H Foroosh - 2016 IEEE International conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many approaches to solve the problem of scene character recognition utilize local features
such as histograms of oriented gradients (HoG), SIFT, Shape Contexts (SC), Geometric Blur …

Collecting and annotating human activities in web videos

FC Heilbron, JC Niebles - Proceedings of International Conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Recent efforts in computer vision tackle the problem of human activity understanding in
video sequences. Traditionally, these algorithms require annotated video data to learn …

View invariant action recognition using projective depth

N Ashraf, C Sun, H Foroosh - Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the concept of projective depth, demonstrate its application and
significance in view-invariant action recognition. We show that projective depths are …

Modeling geometric-temporal context with directional pyramid co-occurrence for action recognition

C Yuan, X Li, W Hu, H Ling… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a new geometric-temporal representation for visual action
recognition based on local spatio-temporal features. First, we propose a modified …

Feature structure fusion and its application

G Lin, H Zhu, X Kang, C Fan, E Zhang - Information Fusion, 2014 - Elsevier
The structure of data is important to the recognition of data. It is a fundamental question how
measures and complements the structure of multi-features, because the fusion structure of …

UCF-STAR: A large scale still image dataset for understanding human actions

M Safaei, P Balouchian, H Foroosh - … of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
Action recognition in still images poses a great challenge due to (i) fewer available training
data,(ii) absence of temporal information. To address the first challenge, we introduce a …

Self-tuning PID controller with variable parameters based on particle swarm optimization

W **n, L Ran, W Yanghua, P Yong… - 2013 Third International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to deal with the time-varying, nonlinear, and large-lagging problems in the auto-
chlorination control process of tap water, a self-tuning PID chlorination controller with …

Feature-independent action spotting without human localization, segmentation or frame-wise tracking

C Sun, M Tappen, H Foroosh - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2014 - cv-foundation.org
In this paper, we propose an unsupervised framework for action spotting in videos that does
not depend on any specific feature (eg HOG/HOF, STIP, silhouette, bag-of-words, etc.) …