Patent ID: 11928849
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to implement an action-object interaction detection mechanism for recognizing actions in cluttered video scenes and further causes the computing device to:
process frames in an action-object interaction video to generate an object bounding contour, associated with an object of interest, in a set of frames of the action-object interaction video;
for each frame in the set of frames:
refine the object bounding contour of the frame using knowledge of the object of interest thereby forming an associated refined object bounding contour; and
crop the frame based on the associated refined object bounding contour, thereby forming a set of cropped frames from the cropping of each frame in the set of frames; and

generate an output indicating whether a specified action is detected as being performed in the action-object interaction video based on a processing of the set of cropped frames.