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We introduce the task of weakly supervised learning for detecting human and object interactions in videos. Our task poses unique challenges as a system does not know what types of human-object interactions are present in a video or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Shuang Li , Yilun Du , Antonio Torralba , Josef Sivic , Bryan Russell

Designing a technique for the automatic analysis of different actions in videos in order to detect the presence of interested activities is of high significance nowadays. In this paper, we explore a robust and dynamic appearance technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Abdul Basit

Retailers have long been searching for ways to effectively understand their customers' behaviour in order to provide a smooth and pleasant shopping experience that attracts more customers everyday and maximises their revenue, consequently.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Mohammad Mahdi Kazemi Moghaddam , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Javen Shi

Despite excellent progress has been made, the performance on action recognition still heavily relies on specific datasets, which are difficult to extend new action classes due to labor-intensive labeling. Moreover, the high diversity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Xiaoyuan Ni , Sizhe Song , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Memory-based video object segmentation methods model multiple objects over long temporal-spatial spans by establishing memory bank, which achieve the remarkable performance. However, they struggle to overcome the false matching and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jintu Zheng , Yun Liang , Yuqing Zhang , Wanchao Su

This paper presents an unsupervised transformer-based framework for temporal activity segmentation which leverages not only frame-level cues but also segment-level cues. This is in contrast with previous methods which often rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Quoc-Huy Tran , Ahmed Mehmood , Muhammad Ahmed , Muhammad Naufil , Anas Zafar , Andrey Konin , M. Zeeshan Zia

Real-time human activity recognition plays an essential role in real-world human-centered robotics applications, such as assisted living and human-robot collaboration. Although previous methods based on skeletal data to encode human poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Brian Reily , Qingzhao Zhu , Christopher Reardon , Hao Zhang

Action repetition counting is to estimate the occurrence times of the repetitive motion in one action, which is a relatively new, important but challenging measurement problem. To solve this problem, we propose a new method superior to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Jianqin Yin , Yanchun Wu , Huaping Liu , Yonghao Dang , Zhiyi Liu , Jun Liu

Temporal action segmentation approaches have been very successful recently. However, annotating videos with frame-wise labels to train such models is very expensive and time consuming. While weakly supervised methods trained using only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhe Li , Yazan Abu Farha , Juergen Gall

In this paper, we tackle the problem of action recognition using body skeletons extracted from video sequences. Our approach lies in the continuity of recent works representing video frames by Gramian matrices that describe a trajectory on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Benjamin Szczapa , Mohamed Daoudi , Stefano Berretti , Alberto Del Bimbo , Pietro Pala , Estelle Massart

Automatically recognizing activities in video is a classic problem in vision and helps to understand behaviors, describe scenes and detect anomalies. We propose an unsupervised method for such purposes. Given video data, we discover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 He Wang , Carol O'Sullivan

Human action recognition from well-segmented 3D skeleton data has been intensively studied and has been attracting an increasing attention. Online action detection goes one step further and is more challenging, which identifies the action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Yanghao Li , Cuiling Lan , Junliang Xing , Wenjun Zeng , Chunfeng Yuan , Jiaying Liu

Tiny Actions Challenge focuses on understanding human activities in real-world surveillance. Basically, there are two main difficulties for activity recognition in this scenario. First, human activities are often recorded at a distance, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Boyu Chen , Yu Qiao , Yali Wang

Assigning consistent temporal identifiers to multiple moving objects in a video sequence is a challenging problem. A solution to that problem would have immediate ramifications in multiple object tracking and segmentation problems. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Abubakar Siddique , Reza Jalil Mozhdehi , Henry Medeiros

Action recognition is a key technology for many industrial applications. Methods using visual information such as images are very popular. However, privacy issues prevent widespread usage due to the inclusion of private information, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Risako Tanigawa , Yasunori Ishii

We aim to tackle a novel task in action detection - Online Detection of Action Start (ODAS) in untrimmed, streaming videos. The goal of ODAS is to detect the start of an action instance, with high categorization accuracy and low detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Zheng Shou , Junting Pan , Jonathan Chan , Kazuyuki Miyazawa , Hassan Mansour , Anthony Vetro , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Shih-Fu Chang

We present MetaUVFS as the first Unsupervised Meta-learning algorithm for Video Few-Shot action recognition. MetaUVFS leverages over 550K unlabeled videos to train a two-stream 2D and 3D CNN architecture via contrastive learning to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jay Patravali , Gaurav Mittal , Ye Yu , Fuxin Li , Mei Chen

Current state-of-the-art action detection systems are tailored for offline batch-processing applications. However, for online applications like human-robot interaction, current systems fall short, either because they only detect one action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Harkirat Singh Behl , Michael Sapienza , Gurkirt Singh , Suman Saha , Fabio Cuzzolin , Philip H. S. Torr

Video action detectors are usually trained using datasets with fully-supervised temporal annotations. Building such datasets is an expensive task. To alleviate this problem, recent methods have tried to leverage weak labeling, where videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Alejandro Pardo , Humam Alwassel , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

We present a new architecture for human action forecasting from videos. A temporal recurrent encoder captures temporal information of input videos while a self-attention model is used to attend on relevant feature dimensions of the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yan Bin Ng , Basura Fernando