Group Activity Recognition with Group Interaction Zone

Young-Ji Kim, Nam-Gyu Cho, Seong-Whan Lee

Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of recognizing group activities that include interactions between human objects based on their motion trajectory analysis. In order to resolve the complexity and ambiguity problems caused by a large number of human objects, we propose a Group Interaction Zone (GIZ) to detect meaningful groups in a scene so as to be robust against noisy information. Two novel features, Group Interaction Energy feature and Attraction and Repulsion Features, are proposed to better describe group activities within a GIZ. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method with other methods on the public BEHAVE dataset.