在這篇論文中，我們提出了一種基於深度學習的方法，該方法利用來自影像序列的多人姿態估測來預測群體場景中的個體動作以及群體活動。我們首先應用多人姿態估測來從影像序列中提取人體姿勢資訊，而不需使用人體偵測。其次，我們提出了一種稱為「人體姿勢動態歷史」（Pose Motion History, PMH）的新穎表徵，它將整個場景中多人人體關節的時空動態聚合成一個特徵圖堆疊。然後，從對應整個場景的這個特徵圖堆疊中裁剪出對應每個個體的「單人人體姿勢動態歷史」（Individual Pose Motion History, Indi-PMH），並將其輸入到簡單的 CNN 以獲得個體動作的預測結果。基於這些個體動作預測結果，我們建構了另一種稱為「群體圖」（Collective Map）的新穎表徵，它將群體場景中每個個體的位置和動作編碼成一個簡單的特徵圖堆疊。接著通過融合兩個簡單 CNN 的輸出來獲得最終的群體活動預測結果：一個採用對應整個場景的「人體姿勢動態歷史」，另一個採用「群體圖」作為輸入。我們在一個具有挑戰性的多人群體活動資料集 Volleyball 上進行評估，並透過比前人的方法更簡單的深度網絡架構，達到了具有競爭力的表現。

In this thesis, we propose a deep learning based approach that exploits multi-person pose estimation from an image sequence to predict individual actions as well as the collective activity for a group scene. We first apply multi-person pose estimation to extract pose information from the image sequence without using human detection. Second we propose a novel representation called “pose motion history”(PMH), that aggregates spatio-temporal dynamics of multi-person human joints in the whole scene into a single stack of feature maps. Then, individual pose motion history stacks(Indi-PMH) are cropped from the whole scene stack and sent into a simple CNN to obtain individual action predictions. Based on these individual predictions, we construct another novel representation called “collective map”, that encodes both the position and action of each individual in the group scene into a simple feature map stack. The final collective activity predictions are then obtained by fusing results of two simple CNNs. One takes the whole scene pose motion history stack, and the other takes collective map stack as input. We evaluate the proposed approach on a challenging multi-person activity dataset, “Volleyball”, and achieve competitive performance with a much simpler network architecture than the previous works.

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