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In order to make computers proactive and assistive, we must enable them to perceive, learn, and predict what is happening in their surroundings. This presents us with the challenge of formalizing computational models of everyday human activities. For a majority of environments, …

Interest in the field of human activity recognition has existed for quite sometime, but has gained popularity in recent years for use in many areas of application. In the security industry, suspicious activities could be detected in high-profile areas. In the medical industry, s…

Human activity recognition is an emerging area of research in computer vision with applications in video surveillance, human-computer interaction, robotics, and video annotation. Despite a number of recent advances, there are still many opportunities for new developments, especi…