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Nonparametric Recognition of Nonrigid Motion
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@TechReport{Polana:TR95,
  author = 	 {Ramprasad B. Polana and Randal C. Nelson},
  title = 	 {Nonparametric Recognition of Nonrigid Motion},
  institution =  {Comp. Sci Dept University of Rochester},
  year = 	 {1995},
  number = 	 {575},
  address = 	 {Rochester NY},
  month = 	 {March},
  abstract =   {
The recognition of nonrigid motion, particularly that arising from human movement 
(and by extension from the locomotory activity of animals) has typically made use 
of high-level parametric models representing the various body parts (legs, arms, 
trunk, head, etc.) and their connections to each other. Such model-based 
recognition has been successful in some cases; however, the methods are often 
difficult to apply to real-world scenes, and are severely limited in their 
generalizability. The first problem arises from the difficulty of acquiring and 
tracking the requisite model parts, usually specific joints such as knees, elbows 
or ankles. This generally requires some prior high-level understanding and 
segmentation of the scene, or initialization by a human operator. The second 
problem is due to the fact that the human model is not much good for dogs or 
birds; for each new type of motion, a new model must be hand-crafted. In this 
paper, we show that the recognition of human or animal locomotion, and, in fact, 
any repetitive activity, can be done using low-level, non-parametric 
representations. Such an approach has the advantage that the same underlying 
representation is used for all examples, and no individual tailoring of models or 
prior scene understanding is required. We show in particular that repetitive 
motion is such a strong cue that the moving actor can be segmented, normalized 
spatially and temporally, and recognized by matching against a spatio-temporal 
template of motion features. We have implemented a real-time system that can 
recognize and classify repetitive motion activities in normal gray-scale image 
sequences. Results on a number of real-world sequences are described.  }
}