A Matlab code is written to recognize human actions namely 'walking', 'jogging','running', 'boxing','hand waving', and 'hand clapping' using Spatio Temporal Interest Points (STIP) and classify the same using a KNN classifier. Please download the KTH Action recognition dataset from the link http://www.nada.kth.se/cvap/actions/ and put them in the folder KTH Dataset folder. How to run ??

1. Place the 'Action Recognition Code' folder in the Matlab Path, add all the folder and subfolder to the path
2. Run Recognize.m
3. Select a video from the KTH Dataset
4. Observe results The code is loosely based on the paper below, please cite and give credit to the authors:

[1] Schüldt, Christian, Ivan Laptev, and Barbara Caputo. "Recognizing human actions: a local SVM approach." Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on. Vol. 3. IEEE, 2004. ftp://ftp.nada.kth.se/CVAP/users/laptev/icpr04actions.pdf

Suggestions and comments are always welcome

Thanks in advance,

Manu B.N