Graph-based approach for human action recognition using spatio-temporal features

Due to the exponential growth of the video data stored and uploaded in the Internet websites especially YouTube, an effective analysis of video actions has become very necessary. In this paper, we tackle the challenging problem of human action recognition in realistic video sequences. The proposed system combines the efficiency of the Bag-of-visual-Words strategy and the power of graphs for structural representation of features. It is built upon the commonly used Space-Time Interest Points (STIP) local features followed by a graph-based video representation which models the spatio-temporal relations among these features. The experiments are realized on two challenging datasets: Hollywood2 and UCF YouTube Action. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.