A Simplified Skeleton Joints Based Approach For Human Action Recognition

Abstract

The growing technological development in the field of computer vision in general, and human action recognition (HAR), in particular, have attracted increasing number of researchers from various disciplines. Amid the variety of challenges in the field of human action recognition, one of the major issues is complex modelling which requires multiple parameters leading to troublesome training which further requires heavy configuration machines for real-time recognition. Therefore, there is a need to develop a simplified method that could result in reduced complexity, without compromising the performance accuracy. In order to address the mentioned issue, this paper proposes an approach that extracts the mean, variance and median from the skeleton joint locations and directly uses them in the classification process. The system used MCAD dataset for extracting 2D skeleton features with the help of OpenPose technique, which is suitable for the extraction of skeleton features from the 2D image instead of 3D image or using a depth sensor. Henceforth, we avoid using either the RGB images or the skeleton images in the recognition process. The method shows a promising performance with an accuracy of 73.8% when tested with MCAD dataset.