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Robust real-time human activity recognition from tracked face displacements

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We are interested in the challenging scientific pursuit of how to characterize human activities in any formal meeting situation by tracking people’s positions with a computer vision system. We present a human activity recognition algorithm that works within the framework of CAMEO (the Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer), a panoramic vision system designed to operate in real-time and in uncalibrated environments. Human activity is difficult to characterize within the constraints that the CAMEO must operate, including uncalibrated deployment and unmodeled occlusions. This paper describes these challenges and how we address them by identifying invariant features and robust activity models. We present experimental results of our recognizer correctly classifying person data.

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      EPIA'05: Proceedings of the 12th Portuguese conference on Progress in Artificial Intelligence
      December 2005
      703 pages
      ISBN:3540307370
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      • Carlos Bento,
      • Am�lcar Cardoso,
      • Ga�l Dias

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