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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2008
Russell Patrick Bobbitt, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Quanfu Fan, Somerville, MA (US);
Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, CT (US);
Frederik Kjeldsen, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti, Darien, CT (US);
Akira Yanagawa, New York, NY (US);
Yun Zhai, White Plains, NY (US);
Russell Patrick Bobbitt, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Quanfu Fan, Somerville, MA (US);
Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, CT (US);
Frederik Kjeldsen, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti, Darien, CT (US);
Akira Yanagawa, New York, NY (US);
Yun Zhai, White Plains, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques for analyzing one or more sequential events performed by a human actor to evaluate efficiency of the human actor are provided. The techniques include identifying one or more segments in a video sequence as one or more components of one or more sequential events performed by a human actor, integrating the one or more components into one or more sequential events by incorporating a spatiotemporal model and one or more event detectors, and analyzing the one or more sequential events to analyze behavior of the human actor.