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Human activity recognition in videos has been widely studied and has recently gained significant advances with deep learning approaches; however, it remains a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Dong-Gyu Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Unlike images or videos data which can be easily labeled by human being, sensor data annotation is a time-consuming process. However, traditional methods of human activity recognition require a large amount of such strictly labeled data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kun Wang , Jun He , Lei Zhang

Anticipating future actions in videos is challenging, as the observed frames provide only evidence of past activities, requiring the inference of latent intentions to predict upcoming actions. Existing transformer-based approaches, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tsung-Ming Tai , Sofia Casarin , Andrea Pilzer , Werner Nutt , Oswald Lanz

In this paper, we propose an attention pyramid method for person re-identification. Unlike conventional attention-based methods which only learn a global attention map, our attention pyramid exploits the attention regions in a multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Guangyi Chen , Tianpei Gu , Jiwen Lu , Jin-An Bao , Jie Zhou

Attention level estimation systems have a high potential in many use cases, such as human-robot interaction, driver modeling and smart home systems, since being able to measure a person's attention level opens the possibility to natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Andrea Coifman , Péter Rohoska , Miklas S. Kristoffersen , Sven E. Shepstone , Zheng-Hua Tan

We introduce CenterGroup, an attention-based framework to estimate human poses from a set of identity-agnostic keypoints and person center predictions in an image. Our approach uses a transformer to obtain context-aware embeddings for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Guillem Brasó , Nikita Kister , Laura Leal-Taixé

Dot-product attention has wide applications in computer vision and natural language processing. However, its memory and computational costs grow quadratically with the input size. Such growth prohibits its application on high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zhuoran Shen , Mingyuan Zhang , Haiyu Zhao , Shuai Yi , Hongsheng Li

Person Re-Identification (person re-id) is a crucial task as its applications in visual surveillance and human-computer interaction. In this work, we present a novel joint Spatial and Temporal Attention Pooling Network (ASTPN) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Shuangjie Xu , Yu Cheng , Kang Gu , Yang Yang , Shiyu Chang , Pan Zhou

The attention mechanism is widely used in deep learning because of its excellent performance in neural networks without introducing additional information. However, in unsupervised person re-identification, the attention module represented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yi Zheng

Convolutional layers are an integral part of many deep neural network solutions in computer vision. Recent work shows that replacing the standard convolution operation with mechanisms based on self-attention leads to improved performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Souvik Kundu , Hesham Mostafa , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Sairam Sundaresan

We propose a method for human action recognition, one that can localize the spatiotemporal regions that `define' the actions. This is a challenging task due to the subtlety of human actions in video and the co-occurrence of contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yang Wang , Vinh Tran , Gedas Bertasius , Lorenzo Torresani , Minh Hoai

Human action recognition (HAR) in videos has garnered widespread attention due to the rich information in RGB videos. Nevertheless, existing methods for extracting deep features from RGB videos face challenges such as information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mengyuan Liu , Jinfu Liu , Yongkang Jiang , Bin He

The attention mechanism provides a sequential prediction framework for learning spatial models with enhanced implicit temporal consistency. In this work, we show a systematic design (from 2D to 3D) for how conventional networks and other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Ruixu Liu , Ju Shen , He Wang , Chen Chen , Sen-ching Cheung , Vijayan K. Asari

Active vision is inherently attention-driven: The agent actively selects views to attend in order to fast achieve the vision task while improving its internal representation of the scene being observed. Inspired by the recent success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Min Liu , Yifei Shi , Lintao Zheng , Kai Xu , Hui Huang , Dinesh Manocha

In this paper, we introduce an alternative approach to enhancing Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) through the integration of domain knowledge and attention-based policy mechanisms. Our methodology focuses on the incorporation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Andre R Kuroswiski , Annie S Wu , Angelo Passaro

Human action understanding is a fundamental and challenging task in computer vision. Although there exists tremendous research on this area, most works focus on action recognition, while action retrieval has received less attention. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Hongsong Wang , Jianhua Zhao , Jie Gui

Class-incremental learning (CIL) enables models to learn new classes progressively while preserving knowledge of previously learned ones. Recent advances in this field have shifted towards parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Haoran Chen , Ping Wang , Zihan Zhou , Xu Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

We present a dual-pathway approach for recognizing fine-grained interactions from videos. We build on the success of prior dual-stream approaches, but make a distinction between the static and dynamic representations of objects and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Tae Soo Kim , Jonathan Jones , Gregory D. Hager

View based strategies for 3D object recognition have proven to be very successful. The state-of-the-art methods now achieve over 90% correct category level recognition performance on appearance images. We improve upon these methods by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Chu Wang , Marcello Pelillo , Kaleem Siddiqi

Attention mechanism has demonstrated great potential in fine-grained visual recognition tasks. In this paper, we present a counterfactual attention learning method to learn more effective attention based on causal inference. Unlike most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yongming Rao , Guangyi Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou