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Person search has recently been a challenging task in the computer vision domain, which aims to search specific pedestrians from real cameras.Nevertheless, most surveillance videos comprise only a handful of images of each pedestrian, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Huibing Wang , Tianxiang Cui , Mingze Yao , Huijuan Pang , Yushan Du

In this paper we consider the task of recognizing human actions in realistic video where human actions are dominated by irrelevant factors. We first study the benefits of removing non-action video segments, which are the ones that do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Yang Wang , Minh Hoai

Video activity recognition by deep neural networks is impressive for many classes. However, it falls short of human performance, especially for challenging to discriminate activities. Humans differentiate these complex activities by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Joseph Chrol-Cannon , Andrew Gilbert , Ranko Lazic , Adithya Madhusoodanan , Frank Guerin

With advances in data-driven machine learning research, a wide variety of prediction models have been proposed to capture spatio-temporal features for the analysis of video streams. Recognising actions and detecting action transitions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Harshala Gammulle , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Simon Denman , Lachlan Tychsen-Smith , Lars Petersson , Clinton Fookes

Distilling knowledge from human demonstrations is a promising way for robots to learn and act. Existing methods, which often rely on coarsely-aligned video pairs, are typically constrained to learning global or task-level features. As a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sicheng Xie , Haidong Cao , Zejia Weng , Zhen Xing , Haoran Chen , Shiwei Shen , Jiaqi Leng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Foundation video models produce visually impressive results, but their use in embodied AI remains limited because they are primarily trained on natural language rather than low-level control signals. This limitation is especially pronounced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Abdul Mohaimen Al Radi , Kunyang Li , Yuzhang Shang , Mubarak Shah , Yu Tian

Although synthetic training data has been shown to be beneficial for tasks such as human pose estimation, its use for RGB human action recognition is relatively unexplored. Our goal in this work is to answer the question whether synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Gül Varol , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid , Andrew Zisserman

Deep video action recognition models have been highly successful in recent years but require large quantities of manually annotated data, which are expensive and laborious to obtain. In this work, we investigate the generation of synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 César Roberto de Souza , Adrien Gaidon , Yohann Cabon , Naila Murray , Antonio Manuel López

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

Aerial filming is constantly gaining importance due to the recent advances in drone technology. It invites many intriguing, unsolved problems at the intersection of aesthetical and scientific challenges. In this work, we propose a deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Mirko Gschwindt , Efe Camci , Rogerio Bonatti , Wenshan Wang , Erdal Kayacan , Sebastian Scherer

Action recognition in videos is a challenging task due to the complexity of the spatio-temporal patterns to model and the difficulty to acquire and learn on large quantities of video data. Deep learning, although a breakthrough for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-26 César Roberto de Souza , Adrien Gaidon , Eleonora Vig , Antonio Manuel López

Increased drone proliferation in civilian and professional settings has created new threat vectors for airports and national infrastructures. The economic damage for a single major airport from drone incursions is estimated to be millions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Chen Li , Schyler C. Sun , Zhuangkun Wei , Antonios Tsourdos , Weisi Guo

Learning a generalist embodied agent capable of completing multiple tasks poses challenges, primarily stemming from the scarcity of action-labeled robotic datasets. In contrast, a vast amount of human videos exist, capturing intricate tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Ling Pan , Weinan Zhang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

We propose a new method for realistic human motion transfer using a generative adversarial network (GAN), which generates a motion video of a target character imitating actions of a source character, while maintaining high authenticity of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yang-Tian Sun , Qian-Cheng Fu , Yue-Ren Jiang , Zitao Liu , Yu-Kun Lai , Hongbo Fu , Lin Gao

Human Action Recognition (HAR) aims to understand human behavior and assign a label to each action. It has a wide range of applications, and therefore has been attracting increasing attention in the field of computer vision. Human actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zehua Sun , Qiuhong Ke , Hossein Rahmani , Mohammed Bennamoun , Gang Wang , Jun Liu

The recent successes in applying deep learning techniques to solve standard computer vision problems has aspired researchers to propose new computer vision problems in different domains. As previously established in the field, training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mehran Khodabandeh , Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Ilya Zharkov , Vivek Pradeep

AI-generated video generation continues its journey through the uncanny valley to produce content that is increasingly perceptually indistinguishable from reality. To better protect individuals, organizations, and societies from its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Matyas Bohacek , Hany Farid

Understanding human actions in wild videos is an important task with a broad range of applications. In this paper we propose a novel approach named Hierarchical Attention Network (HAN), which enables to incorporate static spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Yilin Wang , Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang , Neil O'Hare , Yi Chang , Baoxin Li

Understanding human actions in visual data is tied to advances in complementary research areas including object recognition, human dynamics, domain adaptation and semantic segmentation. Over the last decade, human action analysis evolved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Samitha Herath , Mehrtash Harandi , Fatih Porikli

GANs are able to perform generation and manipulation tasks, trained on a single video. However, these single video GANs require unreasonable amount of time to train on a single video, rendering them almost impractical. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Niv Haim , Ben Feinstein , Niv Granot , Assaf Shocher , Shai Bagon , Tali Dekel , Michal Irani