Moving vistas: Exploiting motion for describing scenes

TitleMoving vistas: Exploiting motion for describing scenes
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsShroff N, Turaga P, Chellappa R
Conference Name2010 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Date Published2010/06/13/18
PublisherIEEE
ISBN Number978-1-4244-6984-0
KeywordsApplication software, Automation, Chaos, chaotic system, Computational modeling, Computer vision, dynamic scene categorization, Educational institutions, HUMANS, image recognition, in the wild dynamic scene, Layout, motion attribute, natural scenes, Physics, probability, scene recognition, Snow, video data
Abstract

Scene recognition in an unconstrained setting is an open and challenging problem with wide applications. In this paper, we study the role of scene dynamics for improved representation of scenes. We subsequently propose dynamic attributes which can be augmented with spatial attributes of a scene for semantically meaningful categorization of dynamic scenes. We further explore accurate and generalizable computational models for characterizing the dynamics of unconstrained scenes. The large intra-class variation due to unconstrained settings and the complex underlying physics present challenging problems in modeling scene dynamics. Motivated by these factors, we propose using the theory of chaotic systems to capture dynamics. Due to the lack of a suitable dataset, we compiled a dataset of `in-the-wild' dynamic scenes. Experimental results show that the proposed framework leads to the best classification rate among other well-known dynamic modeling techniques. We also show how these dynamic features provide a means to describe dynamic scenes with motion-attributes, which then leads to meaningful organization of the video data.

DOI10.1109/CVPR.2010.5539864