View-independent human action recognition based on multi-view action images and discriminant learning

In this paper a novel view-independent human action recognition method is proposed. A multi-camera setup is used to capture the human body from different viewing angles. Actions are described by a novel action representation, the so-called multi-view action image (MVAI), which effectively addresses the camera viewpoint identification problem, i.e., the identification of the position of each camera with respect to the person´s body. Linear Discriminant Analysis is applied on the MVAIs in order to to map actions to a discriminant feature space where actions are classified by using a simple nearest class centroid classification scheme. Experimental results denote the effectiveness of the proposed action recognition approach.