A Survey of Vision-Based Methods for Action Representation, Segmentation and Recognition

Action recognition has become a very important topic in computer vision, with many fundamental applications, in robotics, video surveillance, human computer interaction and multimedia retrieval among others. The number of works published is steadily increasing and action recognition is meanwhile presented with numerous publications at recent conferences. A large variety of approaches have been described. The purpose of this survey is to give an overview and categorization of the approaches used