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Abstract

Alignment of time series is an important problem to solve in many scientific disciplines. In particular, temporal alignment of two or more subjects performing similar activities is a challenging problem due to the large temporal scale difference between human actions as well as the inter/intra subject variability. In this paper we present canonical time warping (CTW), an extension of canonical correlation analysis (CCA) for spatio-temporal alignment of human motion between two subjects. CTW extends previous work on CCA in two ways: (i) it combines CCA with dynamic time warping (DTW), and (ii) it extends CCA by allowing local spatial deformations. We show CTW's effectiveness in three experiments: alignment of synthetic data, alignment of motion capture data of two subjects performing similar actions, and alignment of similar facial expressions made by two people. Our results demonstrate that CTW provides both visually and qualitatively better alignment than state-of-the-art techniques based on DTW.

Notes

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Vision and Autonomous Systems Center

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): Human Sensing and Component Analysis

Text Reference

Feng Zhou and Fernando De la Torre Frade, "Canonical Time Warping for Alignment of Human Behavior," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS), December, 2009.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Zhou_2009_6478,
   author = "Feng Zhou and Fernando {De la Torre Frade}",
   title = "Canonical Time Warping for Alignment of Human Behavior",
   booktitle = "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS)",
   month = "December",
   year = "2009",
}

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