  This work presents a first evaluation of using spatio-temporal receptive
fields from a recently proposed time-causal spatio-temporal scale-space
framework as primitives for video analysis. We propose a new family of video
descriptors based on regional statistics of spatio-temporal receptive field
responses and evaluate this approach on the problem of dynamic texture
recognition. Our approach generalises a previously used method, based on joint
histograms of receptive field responses, from the spatial to the
spatio-temporal domain and from object recognition to dynamic texture
recognition. The time-recursive formulation enables computationally efficient
time-causal recognition. The experimental evaluation demonstrates competitive
performance compared to state-of-the-art. Especially, it is shown that binary
versions of our dynamic texture descriptors achieve improved performance
compared to a large range of similar methods using different primitives either
handcrafted or learned from data. Further, our qualitative and quantitative
investigation into parameter choices and the use of different sets of receptive
fields highlights the robustness and flexibility of our approach. Together,
these results support the descriptive power of this family of time-causal
spatio-temporal receptive fields, validate our approach for dynamic texture
recognition and point towards the possibility of designing a range of video
analysis methods based on these new time-causal spatio-temporal primitives.
