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This paper presents an approach to identify the importance of different parts of a video sequence from the recognition point of view. It builds on the observations that: (1) events consist of more fundamental (or atomic) units, and (2) a discriminant-based approach is more appropriate for the recognition task, when compared to the standard modelling techniques, such as PCA, HMM, etc. We introduce discriminative actions which describe the usefulness of the fundamental units in distinguishing between events. We first extract actions to capture the fine characteristics of individual parts in the events. These actions are modelled and their usefulness in discriminating between events is estimated as a score. The score highlights the important parts (or actions) of the event from the recognition aspect. Applicability of the approach on different classes of events is demonstrated along with a statistical analysis.
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Alahari, K., Jawahar, C.V. (2006). Discriminative Actions for Recognising Events. In: Kalra, P.K., Peleg, S. (eds) Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11949619_49
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