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Computer Vision in Human Activity Recognition and Behavior Analysis

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 9829

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Steven Davy

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Centre for Sustainable Digital Technologies, Technology University Dublin, D07 EWV4 Dublin, Ireland
Interests: learning (artificial intelligence); neural nets; quality of service; 6G mobile communication; Internet; Internet of Things; agriculture; autonomous aerial vehicles; blockchains; computer networks; computer vision; convolutional neural nets; data privacy; discrete wavelet transforms; feature extraction; gesture recognition; graph theory; handicapped aids; image capture; image classification; image motion analysis; mobile robots; multiprotocol label switching; object detection; optimization

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, with advances being made in computer vision, it is common for intelligent monitoring to observe human activities and behaviors, as well as report abnormal situations. However, it is a different task for the computing environment to extract accurate information about human activities and behaviors from videos or images.

The area of human behavior recognition integrates multi-disciplinary knowledge, such as artificial intelligence, deep learning, video/image processing, machine vision, sensors, and pattern recognition. This Special Issue aims to highlight the state-of-the-art research in computer vision in human activity recognition and behavior analysis, especially trans-domain methods with different sensing and vision technologies, that are energy efficient and make optimal use of compute resources. The topics in focus include, but are not limited to:

  • Human activity recognition;
  • Machine vision;
  • Deep learning;
  • Pattern Behavior Recognition;
  • Movement analysis;
  • Recognize/analyze gestures using smart devices;
  • Human-centric sensing;
  • Early action prediction.

Dr. Steven Davy
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • computer vision
  • behavior analysis
  • machine learning
  • emotion recognition
  • wearable and pervasive sensing

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Improving Time Study Methods Using Deep Learning-Based Action Segmentation Models
by Mihael Gudlin, Miro Hegedić, Matija Golec and Davor Kolar
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(3), 1185; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14031185 - 31 Jan 2024
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In the quest for industrial efficiency, human performance within manufacturing systems remains pivotal. Traditional time study methods, reliant on direct observation and manual video analysis, are increasingly inadequate, given technological advancements. This research explores the automation of time study methods by deploying deep [...] Read more.
In the quest for industrial efficiency, human performance within manufacturing systems remains pivotal. Traditional time study methods, reliant on direct observation and manual video analysis, are increasingly inadequate, given technological advancements. This research explores the automation of time study methods by deploying deep learning models for action segmentation, scrutinizing the efficacy of various architectural strategies. A dataset, featuring nine work activities performed by four subjects on three product types, was collected from a real manufacturing assembly process. Our methodology hinged on a two-step video processing framework, capturing activities from two perspectives: overhead and hand-focused. Through experimentation with 27 distinctive models varying in viewpoint, feature extraction method, and the architecture of the segmentation model, we identified improvements in temporal segmentation precision measured with the F1@IoU metric. Our findings highlight the limitations of basic Transformer models in action segmentation tasks, due to their lack of inductive bias and the limitations of a smaller dataset scale. Conversely, the 1D CNN and biLSTM architectures demonstrated proficiency in temporal data modeling, advocating for architectural adaptability over mere scale. The results contribute to the field by underscoring the interplay between model architecture, feature extraction method, and viewpoint integration in refining time study methodologies. Full article
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Addressing Ergonomic Challenges in Agriculture through AI-Enabled Posture Classification
by Siddhant Kapse, Ruoxuan Wu and Ornwipa Thamsuwan
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(2), 525; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14020525 - 7 Jan 2024
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In this study, we explored the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for posture detection in the context of ergonomics in the agricultural field. Leveraging computer vision and machine learning, we aim to overcome limitations in accuracy, robustness, and real-time application found in traditional [...] Read more.
In this study, we explored the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for posture detection in the context of ergonomics in the agricultural field. Leveraging computer vision and machine learning, we aim to overcome limitations in accuracy, robustness, and real-time application found in traditional approaches such as observation and direct measurement. We first collected field videos to capture real-world scenarios of workers in an outdoor plant nursery. Next, we labeled workers’ trunk postures into three distinct categories: neutral, slight forward bending and full forward bending. Then, through CNNs, transfer learning, and MoveNet, we investigated the effectiveness of different approaches in accurately classifying trunk postures. Specifically, MoveNet was utilized to extract key anatomical features, which were then fed into various classification algorithms including DT, SVM, RF and ANN. The best performance was obtained using MoveNet together with ANN (accuracy = 87.80%, precision = 87.46%, recall = 87.52%, and F1-score = 87.41%). The findings of this research contributed to the integration of computer vision techniques with ergonomic assessments especially in the outdoor field settings. The results highlighted the potential of correct posture classification systems to enhance health and safety prevention practices in the agricultural industry. Full article
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Detection of Anomalous Behavior of Manufacturing Workers Using Deep Learning-Based Recognition of Human–Object Interaction
by Rita Rijayanti, Mintae Hwang and Kyohong Jin
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(15), 8584; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13158584 - 26 Jul 2023
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The increasing demand for industrial products has expanded production quantities, leading to negative effects on product quality, worker productivity, and safety during working hours. Therefore, monitoring the conditions in manufacturing environments, particularly human workers, is crucial. Accordingly, this study presents a model that [...] Read more.
The increasing demand for industrial products has expanded production quantities, leading to negative effects on product quality, worker productivity, and safety during working hours. Therefore, monitoring the conditions in manufacturing environments, particularly human workers, is crucial. Accordingly, this study presents a model that detects workers’ anomalous behavior in manufacturing environments. The objective is to determine worker movements, postures, and interactions with surrounding objects based on human–object interactions using a Mask R-CNN, MediaPipe Holistic, a long short-term memory (LSTM), and worker behavior description algorithm. The process begins by recognizing the objects within video frames using a Mask R-CNN. Afterward, worker poses are recognized and classified based on object positions using a deep learning-based approach. Next, we identified the patterns or characteristics that signified normal or anomalous behavior. In this case, anomalous behavior consists of anomalies correlated with human pose recognition (emergencies: worker falls, slips, or becomes ill) and human pose recognition with object positions (tool breakage and machine failure). The findings suggest that the model successfully distinguished anomalous behavior and attained the highest pose recognition accuracy (approximately 96%) for standing, touching, and holding, and the lowest accuracy (approximately 88%) for sitting. In addition, the model achieved an object detection accuracy of approximately 97%. Full article
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Enhanced Spatial Stream of Two-Stream Network Using Optical Flow for Human Action Recognition
by Shahbaz Khan, Ali Hassan, Farhan Hussain, Aqib Perwaiz, Farhan Riaz, Maazen Alsabaan and Wadood Abdul
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(14), 8003; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13148003 - 8 Jul 2023
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Introduction: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have maintained their dominance in deep learning methods for human action recognition (HAR) and other computer vision tasks. However, the need for a large amount of training data always restricts the performance of CNNs. Method: This paper [...] Read more.
Introduction: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have maintained their dominance in deep learning methods for human action recognition (HAR) and other computer vision tasks. However, the need for a large amount of training data always restricts the performance of CNNs. Method: This paper is inspired by the two-stream network, where a CNN is deployed to train the network by using the spatial and temporal aspects of an activity, thus exploiting the strengths of both networks to achieve better accuracy. Contributions: Our contribution is twofold: first, we deploy an enhanced spatial stream, and it is demonstrated that models pre-trained on a larger dataset, when used in the spatial stream, yield good performance instead of training the entire model from scratch. Second, a dataset augmentation technique is presented to minimize overfitting of CNNs, where we increase the dataset size by performing various transformations on the images such as rotation and flipping, etc. Results: UCF101 is a standard benchmark dataset for action videos, and our architecture has been trained and validated on it. Compared with the other two-stream networks, our results outperformed them in terms of accuracy. Full article
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Dilated Multi-Temporal Modeling for Action Recognition
by Tao Zhang, Yifan Wu and Xiaoqiang Li
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(12), 6934; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13126934 - 8 Jun 2023
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Action recognition involves capturing temporal information from video clips where the duration varies with videos for the same action. Due to the diverse scale of temporal context, uniform size kernels utilized in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) limit the capability of multiple-scale temporal modeling. [...] Read more.
Action recognition involves capturing temporal information from video clips where the duration varies with videos for the same action. Due to the diverse scale of temporal context, uniform size kernels utilized in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) limit the capability of multiple-scale temporal modeling. In this paper, we propose a novel dilated multi-temporal (DMT) module that provides a solution for modeling multi-temporal information in action recognition. By using dilated convolutions with different dilation rates in different feature map channels, the DMT module captures information at multiple scales without the need for costly multi-branch networks, input-level frame pyramids, or feature map stacking that previous works have usually incurred. Therefore, this approach enables the integration of temporal information from multiple scales. In addition, the DMT module can be integrated into existing 2D CNNs, making it a straightforward and intuitive solution for addressing the challenge of multi-temporal modeling. Our proposed method has demonstrated promising results in performance and has achieved about 2% and 1% accuracy improvement on FineGym99 and SthV1. We conducted an empirical analysis that demonstrates how DMT improves the classification accuracy for action classes with varying durations. Full article
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