Motion Binary Patterns for Action Recognition

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel feature type to recognize human actions from video data. By combining the benefit of Volume Local Binary Patterns and Optical Flow, a simple and efficient descriptor is constructed. Motion Binary Patterns (MBP) are computed in spatio-temporal domain while static object appearances as well as motion information are gathered. Histograms are used to learn a Random Forest classifier which is applied to the task of human action recognition. The proposed framework is evaluated on the well-known, publicly available KTH dataset, Weizman dataset and on the IXMAS dataset for multi-view action recognition. The results demonstrate state-of-the-art accuracies in comparison to other methods.