TAVE: Template-based Augmentation of Visual Effects to Human Actions in Videos

We present TAVE, a framework that allows novice users to add interesting visual effects by mimicking human actions in a given template video, in which pre-defined visual effects have already been associated with specific human actions. Our framework is mainly based on high-level features of human pose extracted from video frames, and uses low-level image features as the auxiliary information. We encode an action into a set of code sequences representing joint motion directions and use a finite state machine to recognize the action state of interest. The visual effects, possibly with occlusion masks, can be automatically transferred from the template video to a target video containing similar human actions.