Motion-Based Sign Language Video Summarization using Curvature and Torsion

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Main Authors: Sartinas, Evangelos G., Psarakis, Emmanouil Z., Kosmopoulos, Dimitrios I.
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Published: 2023
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author Sartinas, Evangelos G.
Psarakis, Emmanouil Z.
Kosmopoulos, Dimitrios I.
author_facet Sartinas, Evangelos G.
Psarakis, Emmanouil Z.
Kosmopoulos, Dimitrios I.
contents An interesting problem in many video-based applications is the generation of short synopses by selecting the most informative frames, a procedure which is known as video summarization. For sign language videos the benefits of using the $t$-parameterized counterpart of the curvature of the 2-D signer's wrist trajectory to identify keyframes, have been recently reported in the literature. In this paper we extend these ideas by modeling the 3-D hand motion that is extracted from each frame of the video. To this end we propose a new informative function based on the $t$-parameterized curvature and torsion of the 3-D trajectory. The method to characterize video frames as keyframes depends on whether the motion occurs in 2-D or 3-D space. Specifically, in the case of 3-D motion we look for the maxima of the harmonic mean of the curvature and torsion of the target's trajectory; in the planar motion case we seek for the maxima of the trajectory's curvature. The proposed 3-D feature is experimentally evaluated in applications of sign language videos on (1) objective measures using ground-truth keyframe annotations, (2) human-based evaluation of understanding, and (3) gloss classification and the results obtained are promising.
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spellingShingle Motion-Based Sign Language Video Summarization using Curvature and Torsion
Sartinas, Evangelos G.
Psarakis, Emmanouil Z.
Kosmopoulos, Dimitrios I.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
68T45, 68U10
I.4.9; I.5.4; I.2.7
An interesting problem in many video-based applications is the generation of short synopses by selecting the most informative frames, a procedure which is known as video summarization. For sign language videos the benefits of using the $t$-parameterized counterpart of the curvature of the 2-D signer's wrist trajectory to identify keyframes, have been recently reported in the literature. In this paper we extend these ideas by modeling the 3-D hand motion that is extracted from each frame of the video. To this end we propose a new informative function based on the $t$-parameterized curvature and torsion of the 3-D trajectory. The method to characterize video frames as keyframes depends on whether the motion occurs in 2-D or 3-D space. Specifically, in the case of 3-D motion we look for the maxima of the harmonic mean of the curvature and torsion of the target's trajectory; in the planar motion case we seek for the maxima of the trajectory's curvature. The proposed 3-D feature is experimentally evaluated in applications of sign language videos on (1) objective measures using ground-truth keyframe annotations, (2) human-based evaluation of understanding, and (3) gloss classification and the results obtained are promising.
title Motion-Based Sign Language Video Summarization using Curvature and Torsion
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
68T45, 68U10
I.4.9; I.5.4; I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16801