Tehseen Ahsan^1,*, Sohail Khalid¹, Shaheryar Najam¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Ye Jin Kim³, Byoungchol Chang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1089-1105, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034563 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Human action recognition (HAR) attempts to understand a subject’s behavior and assign a label to each action performed. It is more appealing because it has a wide range of applications in computer vision, such as video surveillance and smart cities. Many attempts have been made in the literature to develop an effective and robust framework for HAR. Still, the process remains difficult and may result in reduced accuracy due to several challenges, such as similarity among actions, extraction of essential features, and reduction of irrelevant features. In this work, we proposed an end-to-end framework using… More >

Faheem Shehzad¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Muhammad Asfand E. Yar³, Muhammad Sharif¹, Majed Alhaisoni⁴, Usman Tariq⁵, Arnab Majumdar⁶, Orawit Thinnukool^7,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 5931-5949, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.028743 - 28 December 2022

Abstract Human action recognition (HAR) based on Artificial intelligence reasoning is the most important research area in computer vision. Big breakthroughs in this field have been observed in the last few years; additionally, the interest in research in this field is evolving, such as understanding of actions and scenes, studying human joints, and human posture recognition. Many HAR techniques are introduced in the literature. Nonetheless, the challenge of redundant and irrelevant features reduces recognition accuracy. They also faced a few other challenges, such as differing perspectives, environmental conditions, and temporal variations, among others. In this work,… More >

Chih-Ta Yen^1,*, Tz-Yun Chen², Un-Hung Chen³, Guo-Chang Wang³, Zong-Xian Chen³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 83-99, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032739 - 22 September 2022

Abstract A system for classifying four basic table tennis strokes using wearable devices and deep learning networks is proposed in this study. The wearable device consisted of a six-axis sensor, Raspberry Pi 3, and a power bank. Multiple kernel sizes were used in convolutional neural network (CNN) to evaluate their performance for extracting features. Moreover, a multiscale CNN with two kernel sizes was used to perform feature fusion at different scales in a concatenated manner. The CNN achieved recognition of the four table tennis strokes. Experimental data were obtained from 20 research participants who wore sensors More >

Motasem S. Alsawadi^1,*, El-Sayed M. El-kenawy^2,3, Miguel Rio¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 19-36, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032499 - 22 September 2022

Abstract The ever-growing available visual data (i.e., uploaded videos and pictures by internet users) has attracted the research community's attention in the computer vision field. Therefore, finding efficient solutions to extract knowledge from these sources is imperative. Recently, the BlazePose system has been released for skeleton extraction from images oriented to mobile devices. With this skeleton graph representation in place, a Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network can be implemented to predict the action. We hypothesize that just by changing the skeleton input data for a different set of joints that offers more information about the action of More >

Yang Wu¹, Lei Guo¹, Xiaodong Dai¹, Bin Zhang¹, Dong-Won Park², Ming Ma^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5911-5924, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031664 - 28 July 2022

Abstract Action recognition has become a current research hotspot in computer vision. Compared to other deep learning methods, Two-stream convolutional network structure achieves better performance in action recognition, which divides the network into spatial and temporal streams, using video frame images as well as dense optical streams in the network, respectively, to obtain the category labels. However, the two-stream network has some drawbacks, i.e., using dense optical flow as the input of the temporal stream, which is computationally expensive and extremely time-consuming for the current extraction algorithm and cannot meet the requirements of real-time tasks. In… More >

Sadaf Hafeez¹, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi², Mohammed Alarfaj³, Tamara al Shloul⁴, Ahmad Jalal¹, Shaharyar Kamal¹, Dong-Seong Kim^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 4935-4952, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023841 - 28 July 2022

Abstract Independent human living systems require smart, intelligent, and sustainable online monitoring so that an individual can be assisted timely. Apart from ambient assisted living, the task of monitoring human activities plays an important role in different fields including virtual reality, surveillance security, and human interaction with robots. Such systems have been developed in the past with the use of various wearable inertial sensors and depth cameras to capture the human actions. In this paper, we propose multiple methods such as random occupancy pattern, spatio temporal cloud, way-point trajectory, Hilbert transform, Walsh Hadamard transform and bone More >

Muhammad Naeem Akbar^1,*, Farhan Riaz¹, Ahmed Bilal Awan¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Usman Tariq³, Saad Rehman²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2555-2576, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028696 - 16 June 2022

Abstract Human Action Recognition (HAR) is a current research topic in the field of computer vision that is based on an important application known as video surveillance. Researchers in computer vision have introduced various intelligent methods based on deep learning and machine learning, but they still face many challenges such as similarity in various actions and redundant features. We proposed a framework for accurate human action recognition (HAR) based on deep learning and an improved features optimization algorithm in this paper. From deep learning feature extraction to feature classification, the proposed framework includes several critical steps.… More >

Esam A. AlQaralleh¹, Fahad Aldhaban², Halah Nasseif², Malek Z. Alksasbeh³, Bassam A. Y. Alqaralleh^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5593-5605, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026666 - 21 April 2022

Abstract Real-time video surveillance system is commonly employed to aid security professionals in preventing crimes. The use of deep learning (DL) technologies has transformed real-time video surveillance into smart video surveillance systems that automate human behavior classification. The recognition of events in the surveillance videos is considered a hot research topic in the field of computer science and it is gaining significant attention. Human action recognition (HAR) is treated as a crucial issue in several applications areas and smart video surveillance to improve the security level. The advancements of the DL models help to accomplish improved… More >

Norah Saleh Alghamdi¹, Sami Bourouis^2,*, Nizar Bouguila³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 1139-1156, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022959 - 24 February 2022

Abstract Interest in automated data classification and identification systems has increased over the past years in conjunction with the high demand for artificial intelligence and security applications. In particular, recognizing human activities with accurate results have become a topic of high interest. Although the current tools have reached remarkable successes, it is still a challenging problem due to various uncontrolled environments and conditions. In this paper two statistical frameworks based on nonparametric hierarchical Bayesian models and Gamma distribution are proposed to solve some real-world applications. In particular, two nonparametric hierarchical Bayesian models based on Dirichlet process… More >

Motasem S. Alsawadi^*, Miguel Rio

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4643-4658, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022783 - 14 January 2022

Abstract Action recognition has been recognized as an activity in which individuals’ behaviour can be observed. Assembling profiles of regular activities such as activities of daily living can support identifying trends in the data during critical events. A skeleton representation of the human body has been proven to be effective for this task. The skeletons are presented in graphs form-like. However, the topology of a graph is not structured like Euclidean-based data. Therefore, a new set of methods to perform the convolution operation upon the skeleton graph is proposed. Our proposal is based on the Spatial… More >