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Visual Analysis of Humans pp 279–288Cite as

On Human Action

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In this chapter we briefly discuss how human actions can be modeled. In particular, we very briefly review different approaches taken in computer vision and robotics. We touch briefly on concepts such as affordances, scene states, object-action complexes, action primitives, imitation learning, etc., and we relate the different approaches taken in Computer Vision and in Robotics. This chapter is meant to provide the bigger frame within which the following chapters of this part of the book are embedded.

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Aaron Bobick

  2. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Ballerup, Denmark

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Bobick, A., Krüger, V. (2011). On Human Action. In: Moeslund, T., Hilton, A., Krüger, V., Sigal, L. (eds) Visual Analysis of Humans. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-997-0_14

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