Cooking Motion Detection by Using Kinect

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method for detecting cooking motion from video and 3D information. Firstly we try to extract certain feature areas which are important for detecting cooking motion from video, such as cooking materials and arms of cooks. In the second step, cooking operation area can be detected, and finally we identify cooking motions such as ‘mixing', ‘heating' and ‘cutting'. The experimental results show the ability of our proposed method.