Simultaneous Team Assignment and Behavior Recognition from Spatio-Temporal Agent Traces

This paper addresses the problem of activity recognition for physically-embodied agent teams. We define team activity recognition as the process of identifying team behaviors from traces of agent positions over time; for many physical domains, military or athletic, coordinated team behaviors create distinctive spatio-temporal patterns that can be used to identify low-level action sequences. This paper focuses on the novel problem of recovering agent-to-team assignments for complex team tasks where team composition, the mapping of agents into teams, changes over time. Without a priori knowledge of current team assignments, the behavior recognition problem is challenging since behaviors are characterized by the aggregate motion of the entire team and cannot generally be determined by observing the movements of a single agent in isolation. To handle this problem, we introduce a new algorithm, Simultaneous Team Assignment and Behavior Recognition (STABR), that generates behavior annotatio...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Gita Sukthankar, Katia P. Sycara
• Keywords: AAAI 2006, Intelligent Agents, Team, Team Assignments, Team Behavior