A Scalable and Accurate Descriptor for Dynamic Textures Using Bag of System Trees.

The bag-of-systems (BoS) representation is a descriptor of motion in a video, where dynamic texture (DT) codewords represent the typical motion patterns in spatio-temporal patches extracted from the video. The efficacy of the BoS descriptor depends on the richness of the codebook, which depends on the number of codewords in the codebook. However, for even modest sized codebooks, mapping videos onto the codebook results in a heavy computational load.

Clustering dynamic textures with the hierarchical em algorithm for modeling video.

Dynamic texture (DT) is a probabilistic generative model, defined over space and time, that represents a video as the output of a linear dynamical system (LDS). The DT model has been applied to a wide variety of computer vision problems, such as motion segmentation, motion classification, and video registration. In this paper, we derive a new algorithm for clustering DT models that is based on the hierarchical EM algorithm.