Tensor baseado em fluxo óptico para descrição global de movimento em vídeos

Abstract

Motion is one of the main characteristics that describe the semantic information of videos. One of the techniques of motion estimation is the extraction of optical flow. The optical flow is a bidimensional representation of velocities in a sequence of adjacent frames, in other words, is the 2D projection of the 3D motion projected on the camera. In this work it is proposed a global video descriptor based on orientation tensor. This descriptor is composed by coefficients of Legendre polynomials calculated for each video frame. The coefficients are found though the projection of the optical flow on Legendre polynomials, obtaining a polynomial representation of the motion. The tensorial descriptor created is evaluated by a classification of the KTH video database with a SVM (support vector machine) classifier. Results show that the precision of our approach is greater than those obtained by global descriptors in the literature.