A new approach to speed up in action recognition based on key-frame extraction

Human action recognition is the process of labeling videos contain human motion with action classes. The run time complexity is one of the most important challenges in action recognition. In this paper, we address this problem using video abstraction techniques including key-frame extraction and video skimming. At first we extract key-frames and then skim the video clip by concatenating excerpts around the selected key-frames. This shorter sequence is used as input for classifier. Our proposed approach not only reduces the space complexity but also reduces the run time in both train and test steps. The experimental results provided on KTH action datasets show that the proposed method achieves good performance without losing considerable classification accuracy.