Human Motion Recognition using Gaussian Processes Classification

This paper investigates the applicability of Gaussian Processes (GP) classification for recognition of articulated and deformable human motions from image sequences. Using Tensor Subspace Analysis (TSA), space-time human silhouettes (extracted from motion videos) are transformed to low-dimensional multivariate time series, based on which structure-based statistical features are calculated to summarize the motion properties. GP classification is then used to learn and predict motion categories. Experimental results on two real-world state-of-the-art datasets show that the proposed approach is effective, and outperforms Support Vector Machine (SVM).