Discriminative-Element-Aware Sparse Representation for Action Recognition
Human action recognition has become one of the most important and challenging problems in computer vision. Sparse representation which encodes the local features with over-complete bases has shown excellent performance for action recognition. Traditional methods treat each feature and dictionary atom equally in the dictionary learning and classification phases respectively. However, we find that: 1)the discriminativeness of different features is uneven; 2) the contribution of different dictionary atoms is uneven. To solve these problem, we proposed a novel method called the discriminative-element-aware sparse representation (DEASR) which considers their contributions and combines them while making a decision. We evaluate the proposed method on two challenging datasets: the 3D Online RGBD Action Dataset, and UCF-101 Dataset. Experimental results show that proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results.