PROJECT TITLE :

Latent Hierarchical Model for Activity Recognition

ABSTRACT:

We have a tendency to present a novel hierarchical model for Human Activity Recognition. In contrast with approaches that successively acknowledge actions and activities, our approach jointly models actions and activities during a unified framework, and their labels are simultaneously predicted. The model is embedded with a latent layer that's in a position to capture a richer class of contextual information in each state–state and observation–state pairs. Although loops are gift within the model, the model has an overall linear-chain structure, where the exact inference is tractable. Therefore, the model is very efficient in both inference and learning. The parameters of the graphical model are learned with a structured support vector machine. A data-driven approach is employed to initialize the latent variables; thus, no manual labeling for the latent states is required. The experimental results from using two benchmark datasets show that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art approach, and our model is computationally more economical.