Assessing the Quality of Actions
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Author(s)
Pirsiavash, Hamed
Torralba, Antonio
Vondrick, Carl Martin
Date Issued
2014
Journal
Computer Vision – ECCV 2014
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Springer-Verlag
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Pirsiavash, Hamed, Carl Vondrick, and Antonio Torralba. “Assessing the Quality of Actions.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2014): 556–571.
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Abstract
While recent advances in computer vision have provided reliable methods to recognize actions in both images and videos, the problem of assessing how well people perform actions has been largely unexplored in computer vision. Since methods for assessing action quality have many real-world applications in healthcare, sports, and video retrieval, we believe the computer vision community should begin to tackle this challenging problem. To spur progress, we introduce a learning-based framework that takes steps towards assessing how well people perform actions in videos. Our approach works by training a regression model from spatiotemporal pose features to scores obtained from expert judges. Moreover, our approach can provide interpretable feedback on how people can improve their action. We evaluate our method on a new Olympic sports dataset, and our experiments suggest our framework is able to rank the athletes more accurately than a non-expert human. While promising, our method is still a long way to rivaling the performance of expert judges, indicating that there is significant opportunity in computer vision research to improve on this difficult yet important task.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10599-4_36
