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Human actions are comprised of a sequence of poses. This makes videos of humans a rich and dense source of human poses. We propose an unsupervised method to learn pose features from videos that exploits a signal which is complementary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Senthil Purushwalkam , Abhinav Gupta

This paper studies optical flow estimation, a critical task in motion analysis with applications in autonomous navigation, action recognition, and film production. Traditional optical flow methods require consecutive frames, which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Mo Zhou , Jianwei Wang , Xuanmeng Zhang , Dylan Campbell , Kai Wang , Long Yuan , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Efficiently modeling dynamic motion information in videos is crucial for action recognition task. Most state-of-the-art methods heavily rely on dense optical flow as motion representation. Although combining optical flow with RGB frames as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Can Zhang , Yuexian Zou , Guang Chen , Lei Gan

Human action recognition involves the characterization of human actions through the automated analysis of video data and is integral in the development of smart computer vision systems. However, several challenges like dynamic backgrounds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Jonti Talukdar , Bhavana Mehta

Parametric human models capture global pose but cannot represent the non-rigid surface dynamics of clothing and soft tissue. Generic scene flow estimates dense motion but breaks down on articulated bodies, where pixel-level supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhanbo Huang , Xiaoming Liu , Yu Kong

Two-stream networks have been very successful for solving the problem of action detection. However, prior work using two-stream networks train both streams separately, which prevents the network from exploiting regularities between the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Graham W. Taylor

Video representation learning has recently attracted attention in computer vision due to its applications for activity and scene forecasting or vision-based planning and control. Video prediction models often learn a latent representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Rama Krishna Kandukuri , Jan Achterhold , Michael Möller , Jörg Stückler

Recognizing human actions based on videos has became one of the most popular areas of research in computer vision in recent years. This area has many applications such as surveillance, robotics, health care, video search and human-computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Aytekin Nebisoy , Saber Malekzadeh

We seek to answer the question: what can a motion-blurred image reveal about a scene's past, present, and future? Although motion blur obscures image details and degrades visual quality, it also encodes information about scene and camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 SaiKiran Tedla , Kelly Zhu , Trevor Canham , Felix Taubner , Michael S. Brown , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos , David B. Lindell

The temporal component of videos provides an important clue for activity recognition, as a number of activities can be reliably recognized based on the motion information. In view of that, this work proposes a novel temporal stream for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Carlos Caetano , Victor H. C. de Melo , Jefersson A. dos Santos , William Robson Schwartz

Action recognition models rely excessively on static cues rather than dynamic human motion, which is known as static bias. This bias leads to poor performance in real-world applications and zero-shot action recognition. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Masato Kobayashi , Ning Ding , Toru Tamaki

Human action recognition is an important problem in computer vision. It has a wide range of applications in surveillance, human-computer interaction, augmented reality, video indexing, and retrieval. The varying pattern of spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Yogesh S Rawat , Shruti Vyas

Existing optical flow methods make generic, spatially homogeneous, assumptions about the spatial structure of the flow. In reality, optical flow varies across an image depending on object class. Simply put, different objects move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Deqing Sun , Varun Jampani , Michael J. Black

In classic video action recognition, labels may not contain enough information about the diverse video appearance and dynamics, thus, existing models that are trained under the standard supervised learning paradigm may extract less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zhiyu Yao , Yunbo Wang , Mingsheng Long , Jianmin Wang , Philip S Yu , Jiaguang Sun

Video representation is a key challenge in many computer vision applications such as video classification, video captioning, and video surveillance. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for video representation that captures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Mohammadreza Babaee , David Full , Gerhard Rigoll

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

Derived from rapid advances in computer vision and machine learning, video analysis tasks have been moving from inferring the present state to predicting the future state. Vision-based action recognition and prediction from videos are such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Yu Kong , Yun Fu

The accuracy of learning-based optical flow estimation models heavily relies on the realism of the training datasets. Current approaches for generating such datasets either employ synthetic data or generate images with limited realism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Yingping Liang , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang , Ying Fu

In our previous study, we successfully reproduced the illusory motion of the rotating snakes illusion using deep neural networks incorporating predictive coding theory. In the present study, we further examined the properties of the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-15 Taisuke Kobayashi , Akiyoshi Kitaoka , Manabu Kosaka , Kenta Tanaka , Eiji Watanabe

Action recognition is a fundamental ability for social species. Yet, its underlying computations are not well understood. Classical psychophysical studies using simplified stimuli have shown that humans can perceive body motion even under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Prerana Kumar , Martin A. Giese