What's in a primitive? Identifying reusable motion trajectories in narrated demonstrations

We present a novel algorithm to identify reusable motion trajectories corresponding to the primitive actions in a human demonstration of a symbolic plan with accompanying narration. Our approach involves a multi-step process starting with time-series pattern mining applied to raw motion-capture data. We evaluated our algorithm on recordings of human motions and showed that it identifies reusable trajectories with 86% of the accuracy of human experts.