Recognition of daily actions is an essential part of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications and still not fully solved. In this work, we propose a novel framework for the recognition of actions of daily living from depth-videos. The framework is based on low-level human pose movement descriptors extracted from 3D joint trajectories as well as differential values that encode speed and acceleration information. The joints are detected using a depth sensor. The low-level descriptors are then

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... gregated into discriminative high-level action representations by modeling prototype pose movements with Gaussian Mixtures and then using a Fisher encoding schema. The resulting Fisher vectors are suitable to train Linear SVM classifiers so as to recognize actions in pre-segmented video clips, alleviating the need for additional parameter search with non-linear kernels or neural network tuning. Experimental evaluation on two well-known RGB-D action datasets reveal that the proposed framework achieves close to state-of-the-art performance whilst maintaining high processing speeds.