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Zero-Shot Action Recognition has attracted attention in the last years and many approaches have been proposed for recognition of objects, events and actions in images and videos. There is a demand for methods that can classify instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Valter Estevam , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

In recent years, video action recognition, as a fundamental task in the field of video understanding, has been deeply explored by numerous researchers.Most traditional video action recognition methods typically involve converting videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Junlin Chen , Chengcheng Xu , Yangfan Xu , Jian Yang , Jun Li , Zhiping Shi

This paper presents a survey of human action recognition approaches based on visual data recorded from a single video camera. We propose an organizing framework which puts in evidence the evolution of the area, with techniques moving from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Ana Paula Brandão Lopes , Eduardo Alves do Valle , Jussara Marques de Almeida , Arnaldo Albuquerque de Araújo

What is the right way to reason about human activities? What directions forward are most promising? In this work, we analyze the current state of human activity understanding in videos. The goal of this paper is to examine datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Gunnar A. Sigurdsson , Olga Russakovsky , Abhinav Gupta

Despite the recent progress in video understanding and the continuous rate of improvement in temporal action localization throughout the years, it is still unclear how far (or close?) we are to solving the problem. To this end, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Humam Alwassel , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Victor Escorcia , Bernard Ghanem

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) in videos aims at densely identifying video frames in minutes-long videos with multiple action classes. As a long-range video understanding task, researchers have developed an extended collection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Guodong Ding , Fadime Sener , Angela Yao

In this paper, we present a framework that jointly retrieves and spatiotemporally highlights actions in videos by enhancing current deep cross-modal retrieval methods. Our work takes on the novel task of action highlighting, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Seito Kasai , Yuchi Ishikawa , Masaki Hayashi , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Kensho Hara , Hirokatsu Kataoka

Human action recognition and analysis have great demand and important application significance in video surveillance, video retrieval, and human-computer interaction. The task of human action quality evaluation requires the intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Shunli Wang , Dingkang Yang , Peng Zhai , Qing Yu , Tao Suo , Zhan Sun , Ka Li , Lihua Zhang

Research in action detection has grown in the recentyears, as it plays a key role in video understanding. Modelling the interactions (either spatial or temporal) between actors and their context has proven to be essential for this task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Manuel Sarmiento Calderó , David Varas , Elisenda Bou-Balust

Action scene understanding in soccer is a challenging task due to the complex and dynamic nature of the game, as well as the interactions between players. This article provides a comprehensive overview of this task divided into action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Karolina Seweryn , Anna Wróblewska , Szymon Łukasik

Real-time video analysis remains a challenging problem in computer vision, requiring efficient processing of both spatial and temporal information while maintaining computational efficiency. Existing approaches often struggle to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Shahla John

Action recognition is a critical task for social robots to meaningfully engage with their environment. 3D human skeleton-based action recognition is an attractive research area in recent years. Although, the existing approaches are good at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Hui Feng , Shanshan Wang , Shuzhi Sam Ge

Spatiotemporal action recognition deals with locating and classifying actions in videos. Motivated by the latest state-of-the-art real-time object detector You Only Watch Once (YOWO), we aim to modify its structure to increase action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Shentong Mo , Xiaoqing Tan , Jingfei Xia , Pinxu Ren

Video moment localization, also known as video moment retrieval, aiming to search a target segment within a video described by a given natural language query. Beyond the task of temporal action localization whereby the target actions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Meng Liu , Liqiang Nie , Yunxiao Wang , Meng Wang , Yong Rui

Abnormality detection in video poses particular challenges due to the infinite size of the class of all irregular objects and behaviors. Thus no (or by far not enough) abnormal training samples are available and we need to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Borislav Antić , Björn Ommer

Modeling and automatically recognizing surgical activities are fundamental steps toward automation in surgery and play important roles in providing timely feedback to surgeons. Accurately recognizing surgical activities in video poses a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Abdishakour Awale , Duygu Sarikaya

Vision transformers are emerging as a powerful tool to solve computer vision problems. Recent techniques have also proven the efficacy of transformers beyond the image domain to solve numerous video-related tasks. Among those, human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar , Ganna Pogrebna , Ajmal Mian

Despite the rapid progress, existing works on action understanding focus strictly on one type of action agent, which we call actor---a human adult, ignoring the diversity of actions performed by other actors. To overcome this narrow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Chenliang Xu , Caiming Xiong , Jason J. Corso

Human action is naturally compositional: humans can easily recognize and perform actions with objects that are different from those used in training demonstrations. In this paper, we study the compositionality of action by looking into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Joanna Materzynska , Tete Xiao , Roei Herzig , Huijuan Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Trevor Darrell

Spatio-temporal action detection encompasses the tasks of localizing and classifying individual actions within a video. Recent works aim to enhance this process by incorporating interaction modeling, which captures the relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Wei-Jhe Huang , Min-Hung Chen , Shang-Hong Lai