Classification of Multi-class Daily Human Motion using Discriminative Body Parts and Sentence Descriptions

In this paper, we propose a motion model that focuses on the discriminative parts of the human body related to target motions to classify human motions into specific categories, and apply this model to multi-class daily motion classifications. We extend this model to a motion recognition system which generates multiple sentences associated with human motions. The motion model is evaluated with the following four datasets acquired by a Kinect sensor or multiple infrared cameras in a motion capture studio: UCF-kinect; UT-kinect; HDM05-mocap; and YNL-mocap. We also evaluate the sentences generated from the dataset of motion and language pairs. The experimental results indicate that the motion model improves classification accuracy and our approach is better than other state-of-the-art methods for specific datasets, including human–object interactions with variations in the duration of motions, such as daily human motions. We achieve a classification rate of 81.1% for multi-class daily motion classifications in a non cross-subject setting. Additionally, the sentences generated by the motion recognition system are semantically and syntactically appropriate for the description of the target motion, which may lead to human–robot interaction using natural language.