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Activity Recognition via Autoregressive Prediction of Velocity Distribution Miha Peternel and Ales? Leonardis University of Ljubljana Faculty of Computer and Information Science Trz?as?ka 25, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia {miha.peternel,ales.leonardis}@fri.uni-lj.si Abstract We present a novel approach for view-based learning and recognition of motion patterns of articulated objects. We formulate the intervals of motion as a predictive model of local spatio-temporal receptive field activation. We compute local velocity distribution using a Bayesian approach, and then approximate the local velocity distribution in space and time using a set of Gaussian receptive fields. The activation sequence of receptive fields over time is modeled in a PCA subspace using linear auto-regression to arrive at a model of the motion pattern. Recognition is performed using the MDL principle. We test the approach on a number of human motion patterns to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach to simple action recognition and identification. 1 Introduction The ability to learn and later recognize articulated activities with few assumptions about the object geometry, appear- ance, and the nature of the activity would have a number of applications in monitoring, video interpretation, video indexing, smart environments, and human-robot interactions. Several models have been developed to enable recognition of motion patterns, trajectories, and consequently activ- ities [7]. Standard methods either use a predefined geometrical model and try to estimate its parameters [8, 1, 2, 11], or attempt to model the observed motion directly [3, 16, 4, 5]. Recently, attempts have been made to summarize motion using local spatio-temporal features [14, 12]. It has been shown [12] that distribution density of local trajectories can be used for learning and recognition of cyclic human motion, however such representation is scale dependent and ap- plies to cyclic motion only. Fablet et al. [6] have