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This book deals with action and activity recognition. In seven chapters, this book covers nomenclature of actions, application realms, low-level processing issues for action representations, various approaches for action recognition, motion history image method, shape representations and feature vector analysis, action datasets, and some future issues. In this Chapter, we define action and its nomenclature, and applications of action recognition.
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Ahad, M.A.R. (2011). Introduction. In: Computer Vision and Action Recognition. Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence, vol 5. Atlantis Press. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-20-6_1
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