Is human pose enough to tell human action?
With recent papers coming in the area of the detection of Human Action in static images, the question of pose detection has taken center stage. Many papers tend to model the problem in trying to recover the pose or trying to recover body parts.
Question is does finding a pose or representing a human in terms of different body parts tell us what he is doing?
For example, if someone labels all the parts of the players in the following can we make a decision that they are playing cricket?
what about following?
Why it is not just Walking?
Very important thing is CONTEXT: cricket-bat, helmet, pads, green grass, crowd, etc… how much are they needed to define that above guys are playing cricket.
Not to say that there are some poses which actually represent the cricket or other game, e.g. have a look at following
But what about the differentiating between the certain shots of squash and certain poses of batsman in cricket?
Do we should also include the factor that different sports are photographed differently also? e.g Tennis you will find many images taken from camera on top of head of player, looking down . This will be not possible in soccer.
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