Regression-Based Feature Selection on Large Scale Human Activity Recognition

In this paper, we present an approach for regression-based feature selection in human activity recognition. Due to high dimensional features in human activity recognition, the model may have over-fitting and can’t learn parameters well. Moreover, the features are redundant or irrelevant. The goal is to select important discriminating features to recognize the human activities in videos. R-Squared regression criterion can identify the best features based on the ability of a feature to explain the variations in the target class. The features are significantly reduced, nearly by 99.33%, resulting in better classification accuracy. Support Vector Machine with a linear kernel is used to classify the activities. The experiments are tested on UCF50 dataset. The results show that the proposed model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Keywords—Action Bank; Template Matching; SpatioTemporal Orientation Energy; Correlation; R-Squared; Support Vector Machine; Logistic Regression; Linear Regression; Human Activity Recognition