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US 12,243,314 · App. 18/007,599 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Method and system for recognizing human action in apron based on thermal infrared vision

Inventors: Meng Ding (Nanjing, CN); Yuanyuan Ding (Nanjing, CN); Xianghao Kong (Nanjing, CN); Yiming Xu (Nanjing, CN); Yi Wu (Nanjing, CN); Wei Lu (Nanjing, CN)
Assignee: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
G06V20/52G06V10/7715G06V10/774G06V20/41G06V20/70G06V40/20
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Patent No.
US 12,243,314
App. No.
18/007,599
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a method and system for recognizing human action in an apron based on thermal infrared vision, the method comprises: acquiring a plurality of video sequences from an infrared monitoring video; labeling a set target in each image frame in each video sequence with a target box to obtain a target tracking result; intercepting, for each image frame in the video sequence, a target-box enlarged area according to the labeled target box; adding, for each image frame in the video sequence, the position information of the image labeled with target box to the target-box enlarged area to obtain a three-channel sub-image; training an action recognition model by using three-channel sub-image sequences corresponding to a plurality of video sequences as a training set, to obtain a trained action recognition model; obtaining a to-be-recognized video sequence from another infrared monitoring video, and obtaining a three-channel sub-image sequence corresponding to the to-be-recognized video sequence; inputting the three-channel sub-image sequence corresponding to the to-be-recognized video sequence into the trained action recognition model to output a target action type.

Claims (88)

1. A method for recognizing a human action in an apron based on thermal infrared vision, comprising:

acquiring a plurality of video sequences from an infrared monitoring video, wherein the plurality of video sequences comprise a plurality of types of preset target actions;

labeling a set target in each image frame in each video sequence with a target box to obtain a target tracking result, wherein the target tracking result comprises position information of an image labeled with the target box, in each frame;

intercepting, for each image frame in each video sequence, a target-box enlarged area according to the labeled target box, wherein a side length of the target-box enlarged area is greater than a maximum side length of the corresponding labeled target box;

adding, for each image frame in each video sequence, the position information of the image labeled with target box to the target-box enlarged area to obtain a three-channel sub-image, wherein the three-channel sub-image includes an abscissa channel image, an ordinate channel image and an image corresponding to the target-box enlarged area, and various three-channel sub-images are arranged in chronological order to form a three-channel sub-image sequence;

training an action recognition model by using a plurality of three-channel sub-image sequences corresponding to a plurality of video sequences as a training set, to obtain a trained action recognition model;

obtaining a to-be-recognized video sequence from another infrared monitoring video, and obtaining a three-channel sub-image sequence corresponding to the to-be-recognized video sequence;

inputting the three-channel sub-image sequence corresponding to the to-be-recognized video sequence into the trained action recognition model to output a target action type.

2. The method according to 1 , wherein the action recognition model includes a spatial feature extraction network and a spatiotemporal feature extraction network, an output of the spatial feature extraction network is connected to an input of the spatiotemporal feature extraction network; the spatial feature extraction network includes six convolutional layers and three maximum pooling layers; and the spatiospatial feature extraction network includes three layers of convLSTM.

3. The method according to 1 , wherein an input of the action recognition model is a three-channel sub-image sequence of 30 frames.

4. The method according to 1 , wherein the action recognition model also includes a Softmax function, and the Softmax function is used to determine classification results.

5. The method according to 1 , wherein the target-box enlarged area is a square, and a side length of the square is expressed as:

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6. A system for recognizing a human action in an apron based on thermal infrared vision, comprising:

a video sequence obtaining module configured to obtain a plurality of video sequences from an infrared monitoring video, wherein the plurality of video sequences include a plurality of types of preset target actions;

a target box labeling module configured to label a set target in each image frame in each video sequence with a target box, to obtain a target tracking result, wherein the target tracking result includes position information of an image labeled with the target box, in each frame;

a target box enlargement module configured to, for each image frame in each video sequence, intercept a target-box enlarged area according to the labeled target box, wherein a side length of the target-box enlarged area is greater than a maximum side length of the corresponding labeled target box;

a three-channel sub-image sequence determining module configured to, for each image frame in each video sequence, add the position information of the image labeled with the target box to the target-box enlarged area so as to obtain a three-channel sub-image, wherein the three-channel sub-image includes an abscissa channel image, an ordinate channel image, and an image corresponding to the target-box enlarged area; and various three-channel sub-images are arranged in chronological order to form a three-channel sub-image sequence;

an action recognition model training module configured to train an action recognition model by using a plurality of three-channel sub-image sequences corresponding to a plurality of video sequences as a training set, so as to obtain a trained action recognition model;

a to-be-recognized video sequence obtaining module configured to obtain the to-be-recognized video sequence from another infrared monitoring video, and to obtain a three-channel sub-image sequence corresponding to the to-be-recognized video sequence;

a target action recognition module configured to input the three-channel sub-image sequence corresponding to the to-be-recognized video sequence into the trained action recognition model, so as to output a target action type.

7. The system according to 6 , wherein the action recognition model includes a spatial feature extraction network and a spatiotemporal feature extraction network, an output of the spatial feature extraction network is connected to an input of the spatiotemporal feature extraction network; the spatial feature extraction network includes six convolutional layers and three maximum pooling layers; and the spatiospatial feature extraction network includes three layers of convLSTM.

8. The system according to 6 , wherein an input of the action recognition model is a three-channel sub-image sequence of 30 frames.

9. The system according to 6 , wherein the action recognition model also includes a Softmax function, and the Softmax function is used to determine classification results.

10. The system according to 6 , wherein the target-box enlarged area is a square, and a side length of the square is expressed as:

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where L i represents a side length of the target-box enlarged area corresponding to a i-th frame image in the video sequence, α is a scale coefficient, w i represents a short side length of the target box, and h i represents a long side length of the target box.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 2, 2022
From: DING, MENG; DING, YUANYUAN; KONG, XIANGHAO; XU, YIMING; WU, YI; LU, WEI
To: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202111362718.1 · Nov 17, 2021 · national
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