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This paper studies the joint learning of action recognition and temporal localization in long, untrimmed videos. We employ a multi-task learning framework that performs the three highly related steps of action proposal, action recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Action detection aims to localize the starting and ending points of action instances in untrimmed videos, and predict the classes of those instances. In this paper, we make the observation that the outputs of the action detection task can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Lin Geng Foo , Tianjiao Li , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

This paper focus on the study of the motion activity descriptor for shot boundary detection in video sequences. We interest in the validation of this descriptor in the aim of its real time implementation with reasonable high performances in…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Abdelati Malek Amel , Ben Abdelali Abdessalem , Mtibaa Abdellatif

This paper aims at recognizing partially observed human actions in videos. Action videos acquired in uncontrolled environments often contain corrupt frames, which make actions partially observed. Furthermore, these frames can last for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Shih-Yao Lin , Yen-Yu Lin , Chu-Song Chen , Yi-Ping Hung

Most of human actions consist of complex temporal compositions of more simple actions. Action recognition tasks usually relies on complex handcrafted structures as features to represent the human action model. Convolutional Neural Nets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Hossein Mousavi , Mohammad Rastegari , Vittorio Murino , Larry S. Davis

Few-shot learning is a technique to learn a model with a very small amount of labeled training data by transferring knowledge from relevant tasks. In this paper, we propose a few-shot learning method for wearable sensor based human activity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Siwei Feng , Marco F. Duarte

This paper presents a new method to describe spatio-temporal relations between objects and hands, to recognize both interactions and activities within video demonstrations of manual tasks. The approach exploits Scene Graphs to extract key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Elena Merlo , Marta Lagomarsino , Edoardo Lamon , Arash Ajoudani

Zero-shot classification is a promising paradigm to solve an applicable problem when the training classes and test classes are disjoint. Achieving this usually needs experts to externalize their domain knowledge by manually specifying a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Shichao Jia , Zeyu Li , Nuo Chen , Jiawan Zhang

Hand action recognition is a special case of action recognition with applications in human-robot interaction, virtual reality or life-logging systems. Building action classifiers able to work for such heterogeneous action domains is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Alberto Sabater , Iñigo Alonso , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

Action recognition from still images is an important task of computer vision applications such as image annotation, robotic navigation, video surveillance and several others. Existing approaches mainly rely on either bag-of-feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Shaukat Abidi , Massimo Piccardi , Mary-Anne Williams

Standard methods for video recognition use large CNNs designed to capture spatio-temporal data. However, training these models requires a large amount of labeled training data, containing a wide variety of actions, scenes, settings and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 AJ Piergiovanni , Michael S. Ryoo

Tutorial videos of mobile apps have become a popular and compelling way for users to learn unfamiliar app features. To make the video accessible to the users, video creators always need to annotate the actions in the video, including what…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sidong Feng , Chunyang Chen , Zhenchang Xing

Recognizing human actions in adverse lighting conditions presents significant challenges in computer vision, with wide-ranging applications in visual surveillance and nighttime driving. Existing methods tackle action recognition and dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Anwaar Ulhaq

The task of action recognition in dark videos is useful in various scenarios, e.g., night surveillance and self-driving at night. Though progress has been made in the action recognition task for videos in normal illumination, few have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Yuecong Xu , Jianfei Yang , Haozhi Cao , Kezhi Mao , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See

We address the task of zero-shot video classification for extremely fine-grained actions (e.g., Windmill Dunk in basketball), where no video examples or temporal annotations are available for unseen classes. While image-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Amir Aghdam , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Research on video activity detection has primarily focused on identifying well-defined human activities in short video segments. The majority of the research on video activity recognition is focused on the development of large parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Venkatesh Jatla , Sravani Teeparthi , Ugesh Egala , Sylvia Celedon Pattichis , Marios S. Patticis

Detection of fights is an important surveillance application in videos. Most existing methods use supervised binary action recognition. Since frame-level annotations are very hard to get for anomaly detection, weakly supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Weijun Tan , Jingfeng Liu

Deep learning has achieved great success in recognizing video actions, but the collection and annotation of training data are still quite laborious, which mainly lies in two aspects: (1) the amount of required annotated data is large; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yixiong Zou , Shanghang Zhang , Guangyao Chen , Yonghong Tian , Kurt Keutzer , José M. F. Moura

Human activity recognition based on the computer vision is the process of labelling image sequences with action labels. Accurate systems for this problem are applied in areas such as visual surveillance, human computer interaction and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Jay Prakash Gupta , Pushkar Dixit , Nishant Singh , Vijay Bhaskar Semwal

The aim of this work is to detect and automatically generate high-level explanations of anomalous events in video. Understanding the cause of an anomalous event is crucial as the required response is dependant on its nature and severity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Stanislaw Szymanowicz , James Charles , Roberto Cipolla