Peter Sykora

Dr. Peter Sykora

Department of multimedia and ICT, University of Žilina, Žilina, Žilinský, Slovakia
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13Years (2014-Present)

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17 January 2022 in Applied Sciences
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Interest in utilizing neural networks in a variety of scientific and academic studies and in industrial applications is increasing. In addition to the growing interest in neural networks, there is also a rising interest in video classification. Object detection from an image is used as a tool for various applications and is the basis for video classification. Identifying objects in videos is more difficult than for single images, as the information in videos has a time continuity constraint. Common neural networks such as ConvLSTM (Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory) and 3DCNN (3D Convolutional Neural Network), as well as many others, have been used to detect objects from video. Here, we propose a 3DCNN for the detection of human activity from video data. The experimental results show that the optimized proposed 3DCNN provides better results than neural network architectures for motion, static and hybrid features. The proposed 3DCNN obtains the highest recognition precision of the methods considered, 87.4%. In contrast, the neural network architectures for motion, static and hybrid features achieve precisions of 65.4%, 63.1% and 71.2%, respectively. We also compare results with previous research. Previous 3DCNN architecture on database UCF Youtube Action worked worse than the architecture we proposed in this article, where the achieved result was 29%. The experimental results on the UCF YouTube Action dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed 3DCNN for recognition of human activity. For a more complex comparison of the proposed neural network, the modified UCF101 dataset, full UCF50 dataset and full UCF101 dataset were compared. An overall precision of 82.7% using modified UCF101 dataset was obtained. On the other hand, the precision using full UCF50 dataset and full UCF101 dataset was 80.6% and 78.5%, respectively.

4 March 2023 in Sensors
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Patrik KamencayPatrik Kamencay
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Currently, three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (3DCNNs) are a popular approach in the field of human activity recognition. However, due to the variety of methods used for human activity recognition, we propose a new deep-learning model in this paper. The main objective of our work is to optimize the traditional 3DCNN and propose a new model that combines 3DCNN with Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (ConvLSTM) layers. Our experimental results, which were obtained using the LoDVP Abnormal Activities dataset, UCF50 dataset, and MOD20 dataset, demonstrate the superiority of the 3DCNN + ConvLSTM combination for recognizing human activities. Furthermore, our proposed model is well-suited for real-time human activity recognition applications and can be further enhanced by incorporating additional sensor data. To provide a comprehensive comparison of our proposed 3DCNN + ConvLSTM architecture, we compared our experimental results on these datasets. We achieved a precision of 89.12% when using the LoDVP Abnormal Activities dataset. Meanwhile, the precision we obtained using the modified UCF50 dataset (UCF50mini) and MOD20 dataset was 83.89% and 87.76%, respectively. Overall, our work demonstrates that the combination of 3DCNN and ConvLSTM layers can improve the accuracy of human activity recognition tasks, and our proposed model shows promise for real-time applications.

1 January 2014 in AASRI Procedia
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12 April 2022 in Sensors
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Patrik KamencayPatrik Kamencay
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Peter SykoraPeter Sykora
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Recognizing various abnormal human activities from video is very challenging. This problem is also greatly influenced by the lack of datasets containing various abnormal human activities. The available datasets contain various human activities, but only a few of them contain non-standard human behavior such as theft, harassment, etc. There are datasets such as KTH that focus on abnormal activities such as sudden behavioral changes, as well as on various changes in interpersonal interactions. The UCF-crime dataset contains categories such as fighting, abuse, explosions, robberies, etc. However, this dataset is very time consuming. The events in the videos occur in a few seconds. This may affect the overall results of the neural networks that are used to detect the incident. In this article, we create a dataset that deals with abnormal activities, containing categories such as Begging, Drunkenness, Fight, Harassment, Hijack, Knife Hazard, Normal Videos, Pollution, Property Damage, Robbery, and Terrorism. We use the created dataset for the training and testing of the ConvLSTM (convolutional long short-term memory) neural network, which we designed. However, we also test the created dataset using other architectures. We use ConvLSTM architectures and 3D Resnet50, 3D Resnet101, and 3D Resnet152. With the created dataset and the architecture we designed, we obtained an accuracy of classification of 96.19% and a precision of 96.50%.

1 October 2017 in Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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MBMiroslav Benco
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Animal Recognition System Based on Convolutional Neural Network

1 January 2017 in Procedia Engineering
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