Complex Human–Object Interactions Analyzer Using a DCNN and SVM Hybrid Approach

Abstract

Nowadays, with the emergence of sophisticated electronic devices, human daily activities are becoming more and more complex. On the other hand, research has begun on the use of reliable, cost-effective sensors, patient monitoring systems, and other systems that make daily life more comfortable for the elderly. Moreover, in the field of computer vision, human action recognition (HAR) has drawn much attention as a subject of research because of its potential for numerous cost-effective applications. Although much research has investigated the use of HAR, most has dealt with simple basic actions in a simplified environment; not much work has been done in more complex, real-world environments. Therefore, a need exists for a system that can recognize complex daily activities in a variety of realistic environments. In this paper, we propose a system for recognizing such activities, in which humans interact with various objects, taking into consideration object-oriented activity information, the use of deep convolutional neural networks, and a multi-class support vector machine (multi-class SVM). The experiments are performed on a publicly available cornell activity dataset: CAD-120 which is a dataset of human–object interactions featuring ten high-level daily activities. The outcome results show that the proposed system achieves an accuracy of 93.33%, which is higher than other state-of-the-art methods, and has great potential for applications recognizing complex daily activities.