Presentation 2006-11-24
An MDL Approach to Learning Activity Grammars(Gestures)
Kris M. KITANI, Yoichi SATO, Akihiro SUGIMOTO,
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Abstract(in English) Stochastic Context-Free Grammars (SCFG) have been shown to be useful for vision-based human activity analysis. However, action strings from vision-based systems differ from word strings, in that a string of symbols produced by video contains noise symbols, making grammar learning very difficult. In order to learn the basic structure of human activities, it is necessary to filter out these noise symbols. In our work, we propose a new technique for identifying the best subset of non-noise terminal symbols and acquiring the best activity grammar. Our approach uses the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle, to evaluate the trade-offs between model complexity and data fit, to quantify the difference between the results of each terminal subset. The evaluation results are then used to identify a class of candidate terminal subsets and grammars that remove the noise and enable the discovery of the basic structure of an activity. In this paper, we present the validity of our proposed method based on experiments with synthetic data.
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Keyword(in English) Grammatical Inference / Syntactic Analysis / Minimum Description Length Principle / Action Recognition
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Conference Date 2006/11/17(1days)
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Title (in English) An MDL Approach to Learning Activity Grammars(Gestures)
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Keyword(1) Grammatical Inference
Keyword(2) Syntactic Analysis
Keyword(3) Minimum Description Length Principle
Keyword(4) Action Recognition
1st Author's Name Kris M. KITANI
1st Author's Affiliation Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo()
2nd Author's Name Yoichi SATO
2nd Author's Affiliation Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
3rd Author's Name Akihiro SUGIMOTO
3rd Author's Affiliation National Institute of Informatics
Date 2006-11-24
Paper # PRMU2006-133
Volume (vol) vol.106
Number (no) 376
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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