Dynamic Texture Recognition Using Time-Causal Spatio-Temporal Scale-Space Filters

This work presents an evaluation of using time-causal scalespace filters as primitives for video analysis. For this purpose, we present a new family of video descriptors based on regional statistics of spatiotemporal scale-space filter responses and evaluate this approach on the problem of dynamic texture recognition. Our approach generalises a previously used method, based on joint histograms of receptive field responses, from the spatial to the spatio-temporal domain. We evaluate one member in this family, constituting a joint binary histogram, on two widely used dynamic texture databases. The experimental evaluation shows competitive performance compared to previous methods for dynamic texture recognition, especially on the more complex DynTex database. These results support the descriptive power of time-causal spatio-temporal scale-space filters as primitives for video analysis.