Action Recognition Areas

Dr. Mubarak Shah
Friday, March 10, 2006
1:30PM - HPA-112

Abstract


Recognition of human actions from video sequences is a very active area of research in Computer Vision. An important step in any action recognition approach is the extraction of useful information from raw video data and its subsequent representation. The representation should account for the variability that arises when arbitrary cameras capture humans performing actions. The UCF Computer Vision group has been very active in the action recognition area. In this talk, I will present our action recognition work employing a variety of representations: a single point, anatomical landmark points on a human body, and complete contour of the human body. We will also explicitly identify three important sources of variability: (1) View point, (2) execution rate, and (3) anthropometry of actors, and propose a model of human actions that allows us to address all three.

Short Bio


Dr. Mubarak Shah, Agere Chair professor of Computer Science, and the founding director of the Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Central Florida (UCF), is a researcher in computer vision. He has published two books, ten book chapters, fifty five papers in top journals and one hundred thirty papers in refereed international conferences.
He has worked in several areas including activity and gesture recognition, violence detection, event ontology, object tracking (fixed camera, moving camera, multiple overlapping and non-overlapping cameras), video segmentation, story and scene segmentation, view morphing, ATR, wide-baseline matching, and video registration. . Dr. Shah is a fellow of IEEE, was an IEEE Distinguished Visitor speaker between 1997 and 2000, and is often invited to present seminars, tutorials and invited talks all over the world. He received the Harris Corporation Engineering Achievement Award in 1999, the IEEE Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 1997, TOKTEN awards from United Nations Development Program in 1995, 1997, and 2000, Teaching Incentive award in 1995 and 2003, Research Incentive Award in 2003, Millionaires' Club award in 2005, 2006 PEGASUS Professor award, an honorable mention for the ICCV 2005 Where Am I? Challenge Problem, and was nominated for the best paper award in ACM Multimedia Conference in 2005 and he is an editor of an international book series on "Video Computing"; editor in chief of Machine Vision and Applications journal, Area editor of Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, and an associate editor of Pattern Recognition journal. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on PAMI, and a guest editor of the special issue of International Journal of Computer Vision on Video Computing.