Human action recognition based on scene semantics

Like outdoors, indoor security is also a critical problem and human action recognition in indoor area is still a hot topic. Most studies on human action recognition ignored the semantic information of a scene, whereas indoors contains varieties of semantics. Meanwhile, the depth sensor with color and depth data is more suitable for extracting the semantics context in human actions. Hence, this paper proposed an indoor action recognition method using Kinect based on the semantics of a scene. First, we proposed a trajectory clustering algorithm for a three-dimensional (3D) scene by combining the different characteristics of people such as the spatial location, movement direction, and speed. Based on the clustering results and scene context, it concludes a region of interest (ROI) extraction method for indoors, and dynamic time warping (DTW) is used to study the abnormal action sequences. Finally, the color and depth-data-based 3D motion history image (3D–MHI) features and the semantics context of the scene were combined to recognize human action. In the experiment, two datasets were tested and the results demonstrate that our semantics-based method performs better than other methods.