Reconnaissance des actions humaines à partir d'une séquence vidéo

The work done in this master's thesis, presents a new system for the recognition of human actions from a video sequence. The system uses, as input, a video sequence taken by a static camera. A binary segmentation method of the the video sequence is first achieved, by a learning algorithm, in order to detect and extract the different people from the background. To recognize an action, the system then exploits a set of prototypes generated from an MDS-based dimensionality reduction technique, from two different points of view in the video sequence. This dimensionality reduction technique, according to two different viewpoints, allows us to model each human action of the training base with a set of prototypes (supposed to be similar for each class) represented in a low dimensional non-linear space. The prototypes, extracted according to the two viewpoints, are fed to a $K$-NN classifier which allows us to identify the human action that takes place in the video sequence. The experiments of our model conducted on the Weizmann dataset of human actions provide interesting results compared to the other state-of-the art (and often more complicated) methods. These experiments show first the sensitivity of our model for each viewpoint and its effectiveness to recognize the different actions, with a variable but satisfactory recognition rate and also the results obtained by the fusion of these two points of view, which allows us to achieve a high performance recognition rate.