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Human Action Recognition (HAR) stands as a pivotal research domain in both computer vision and artificial intelligence, with RGB cameras dominating as the preferred tool for investigation and innovation in this field. However, in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xiao Wang , Shiao Wang , Pengpeng Shao , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Yonghong Tian

In this paper, a novel signature of human action recognition, namely the curvature of a video sequence, is introduced. In this way, the distribution of sequential data is modeled, which enables few-shot learning. Instead of depending on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 He Chen , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Attribute representations became relevant in image recognition and word spotting, providing support under the presence of unbalance and disjoint datasets. However, for human activity recognition using sequential data from on-body sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Fernando Moya Rueda , Gernot A. Fink

Multisource domain adaptation (MDA) aims to use multiple source datasets with available labels to infer labels on a target dataset without available labels for target supervision. Prior works on MDA in the literature is ad-hoc as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Alexander M. Glandon , Khan M. Iftekharuddin

Retrieving adverbs that describe an action in a video poses a crucial step towards fine-grained video understanding. We propose a framework for video-to-adverb retrieval (and vice versa) that aligns video embeddings with their matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Thomas Hummel , Otniel-Bogdan Mercea , A. Sophia Koepke , Zeynep Akata

When we say a person is texting, can you tell the person is walking or sitting? Emphatically, no. In order to solve this incomplete representation problem, this paper presents a sub-action descriptor for detailed action detection. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Cheng-Bin Jin , Shengzhe Li , Hakil Kim

People work with AI systems to improve their decision making, but often under- or over-rely on AI predictions and perform worse than they would have unassisted. To help people appropriately rely on AI aids, we propose showing them behavior…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ángel Alexander Cabrera , Adam Perer , Jason I. Hong

Pre-training on massive video datasets has become essential to achieve high action recognition performance on smaller downstream datasets. However, most large-scale video datasets contain images of people and hence are accompanied with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Howard Zhong , Samarth Mishra , Donghyun Kim , SouYoung Jin , Rameswar Panda , Hilde Kuehne , Leonid Karlinsky , Venkatesh Saligrama , Aude Oliva , Rogerio Feris

Despite the widespread installation of accelerometers in almost all mobile phones and wearable devices, activity recognition using accelerometers is still immature due to the poor recognition accuracy of existing recognition methods and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Ahmed Selim , Dusit Niyato , Linda Doyle , Shaowei Lin , Hwee-Pink Tan

How do two individuals differ when performing the same action? In this work, we introduce Video Action Differencing (VidDiff), the novel task of identifying subtle differences between videos of the same action, which has many applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 James Burgess , Xiaohan Wang , Yuhui Zhang , Anita Rau , Alejandro Lozano , Lisa Dunlap , Trevor Darrell , Serena Yeung-Levy

This paper proposes combining spatio-temporal appearance (STA) descriptors with optical flow for human action recognition. The STA descriptors are local histogram-based descriptors of space-time, suitable for building a partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Karla Brkić , Srđan Rašić , Axel Pinz , Siniša Šegvić , Zoran Kalafatić

A large body of work in behavioral fields attempts to develop models that describe the way people, as opposed to rational agents, make decisions. A recent Choice Prediction Competition (2015) challenged researchers to suggest a model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Gali Noti , Effi Levi , Yoav Kolumbus , Amit Daniely

Automated and accurate human activity recognition (HAR) using body-worn sensors enables practical and cost efficient remote monitoring of Activity of DailyLiving (ADL), which are shown to provide clinical insights across multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Maximilien Burq , Niranjan Sridhar

We investigate architectures of discriminatively trained deep Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) for action recognition in video. The challenge is to capture the complementary information on appearance from still frames and motion between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Karen Simonyan , Andrew Zisserman

Human activity recognition (HAR) in ubiquitous computing is beginning to adopt deep learning to substitute for well-established analysis techniques that rely on hand-crafted feature extraction and classification techniques. From these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Nils Y. Hammerla , Shane Halloran , Thomas Ploetz

Harnessing human movements to command an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) holds the potential to revolutionize their deployment, rendering it more intuitive and user-centric. In this research, we introduce a novel methodology adept at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Akash Chaudhary , Tiago Nascimento , Martin Saska

To understand the visual world, a machine must not only recognize individual object instances but also how they interact. Humans are often at the center of such interactions and detecting human-object interactions is an important practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Georgia Gkioxari , Ross Girshick , Piotr Dollár , Kaiming He

Video generation models have recently achieved impressive visual fidelity and temporal coherence. Yet, they continue to struggle with complex, non-rigid motions, especially when synthesizing humans performing dynamic actions such as sports,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Kumar Ashutosh , XuDong Wang , Xi Yin , Kristen Grauman , Adam Polyak , Ishan Misra , Rohit Girdhar

Human action or activity recognition in videos is a fundamental task in computer vision with applications in surveillance and monitoring, self-driving cars, sports analytics, human-robot interaction and many more. Traditional supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Sharana Dharshikgan Suresh Dass , Hrishav Bakul Barua , Ganesh Krishnasamy , Raveendran Paramesran , Raphael C. -W. Phan

Drones are enabling new forms of human actions surveillance due to their low cost and fast mobility. However, using deep neural networks for automatic aerial action recognition is difficult due to the need for a large number of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Waqas Sultani , Mubarak Shah