Motion History Images for Action Recognition and Understanding
Human action analysis and recognition is a relatively mature field, yet one which is often not well understood by students and researchers. The large number of possible variations in human motion and appearance, camera viewpoint, and environment, pr
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Series Editors Stan Zdonik Peng Ning Shashi Shekhar Jonathan Katz Xindong Wu Lakhmi C. Jain David Padua Xuemin Shen Borko Furht V. S. Subrahmanian Martial Hebert Katsushi Ikeuchi Bruno Siciliano
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Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad
Motion History Images for Action Recognition and Understanding
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Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad Department of Applied Physics, Electronics and Communication Engineering University of Dhaka Dhaka Bangladesh
ISSN 2191-5768 ISBN 978-1-4471-4729-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4730-5
ISSN 2191-5776 (electronic) ISBN 978-1-4471-4730-5 (eBook)
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This book is dedicated to— my wife Shahera Hossain (Ruba) & my lovely daughter Rumaisa Fatima!
Foreword
It is commonly observed that what used to be science fiction eventually becomes engineering fact. This is certainly the case for human–computer interaction technologies, where speech recognition and synthesis, gesture recognition, face recognition, facial expression analysis, and other technologies that were introduced to many people in sci-fi settings have become, or are in the process of
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