Skeleton Based Periodicity Analysis of Repetitive Actions

Abstract

This paper investigates the problem of detecting and recognizing repetitive actions performed by a human. Repetitive action analysis play a major role in detecting many behavioral disorders. In this work, we present a robust framework for detecting and recognizing repetitive actions performed by a human subject based on periodic and aperiodic action analysis. Our framework uses focal joints in the human skeleton for the analysis of repetitive actions which are substantiated by the principles of human anatomy and physiology. Using Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) techniques, in this paper, we introduce a novel model to transform repetitive action count to differentiate the periodicity in human action. Experimental results on a dataset consisting of 371 video clips show that our algorithm outperforms the state-of-art (RepNet) [1] in simultaneous multiple repetitive action counts. Further, while the proposed model and RepNet give comparable results in counting periodic repetitive actions, our model performance surpass RepNet significantly on analysing non-periodic repetitive behavior.