%0 Conference Paper %B 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops) %D 2011 %T The evolution of stochastic grammars for representation and recognition of activities in videos %A Chellapa, Rama %K activity recognition %K activity representation %K Conferences %K Educational institutions %K Grammar %K Image analysis %K image recognition %K image representation %K image understanding %K pattern recognition %K stochastic image grammars %K syntactic pattern recognition methods %K video signal processing %K video understanding %K Videos %X The speaker is one of the privileged many to have been taught syntactic pattern recognition methods by the Late Prof. K.S. Fu. In this talk, I will discuss the evolution of stochastic image grammars from the early seventies to now with a focus on image and video understanding applications. %B 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops) %I IEEE %P 688 - 688 %8 2011/11/06/13 %@ 978-1-4673-0062-9 %G eng %R 10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130309