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Human head pose estimation in images has applications in many fields such as human-computer interaction or video surveillance tasks. In this work, we address this problem, defined here as the estimation of both vertical (tilt/pitch) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Rafael Berral-Soler , Francisco J. Madrid-Cuevas , Rafael Muñoz-Salinas , Manuel J. Marín-Jiménez

Human activity recognition (HAR) by wearable sensor devices embedded in the Internet of things (IOT) can play a significant role in remote health monitoring and emergency notification, to provide healthcare of higher standards. The purpose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 M. Abid , A. Khabou , Y. Ouakrim , H. Watel , S. Chemkhi , A. Mitiche , A. Benazza-Benyahia , N. Mezghani

We introduce STEP, a novel framework utilizing Transformer-based discriminative model prediction for simultaneous tracking and estimation of pose across diverse animal species and humans. We are inspired by the fact that the human brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shashikant Verma , Harish Katti , Soumyaratna Debnath , Yamuna Swamy , Shanmuganathan Raman

Action-driven stochastic human motion prediction aims to generate future motion sequences of a pre-defined target action based on given past observed sequences performing non-target actions. This task primarily presents two challenges.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jianwei Tang , Hong Yang , Tengyue Chen , Jian-Fang Hu

We present Vision in Action (ViA), an active perception system for bimanual robot manipulation. ViA learns task-relevant active perceptual strategies (e.g., searching, tracking, and focusing) directly from human demonstrations. On the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Haoyu Xiong , Xiaomeng Xu , Jimmy Wu , Yifan Hou , Jeannette Bohg , Shuran Song

Human Pose (HP) estimation is actively researched because of its wide range of applications. However, even estimators pre-trained on large datasets may not perform satisfactorily due to a domain gap between the training and test data. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Hiromu Taketsugu , Norimichi Ukita

Human activity, which usually consists of several actions, generally covers interactions among persons and or objects. In particular, human actions involve certain spatial and temporal relationships, are the components of more complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zhenyu Liu , Yaqiang Yao , Yan Liu , Yuening Zhu , Zhenchao Tao , Lei Wang , Yuhong Feng

Automatic human action recognition is indispensable for almost artificial intelligent systems such as video surveillance, human-computer interfaces, video retrieval, etc. Despite a lot of progress, recognizing actions in an unknown video is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Huy-Hieu Pham , Louahdi Khoudour , Alain Crouzil , Pablo Zegers , Sergio A. Velastin

The tremendous applications of human activity recognition are surging its span from health monitoring systems to virtual reality applications. Thus, the automatic recognition of daily life activities has become significant for numerous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Ivan Miguel Pires , Faisal Hussain , Nuno M. Garcia , Eftim Zdravevski

Accurate semantic segmentation for histopathology image is crucial for quantitative tissue analysis and downstream clinical modeling. Recent segmentation foundation models have improved generalization through large-scale pretraining, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Peixian Liang , Songhao Li , Shunsuke Koga , Yutong Li , Zahra Alipour , Yucheng Tang , Daguang Xu , Zhi Huang

Recognizing interactive action plays an important role in human-robot interaction and collaboration. Previous methods use late fusion and co-attention mechanism to capture interactive relations, which have limited learning capability or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yuhang Wen , Zixuan Tang , Yunsheng Pang , Beichen Ding , Mengyuan Liu

Active learning is an iterative labeling process that is used to obtain a small labeled subset, despite the absence of labeled data, thereby enabling to train a model for supervised tasks such as text classification. While active learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Christopher Schröder , Gerhard Heyer

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models rely on current observations, including images, language instructions, and robot states, to predict actions and complete tasks. While accurate visual perception is crucial for precise action prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Cheng Yang , Jianhao Jiao , Lingyi Huang , Jinqi Xiao , Zhexiang Tang , Yu Gong , Yibiao Ying , Yang Sui , Jintian Lin , Wen Huang , Bo Yuan

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of human activity recognition (HAR) based on wearable sensor data. One can find many practical applications in this area, especially in the field of health care. Many machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 H. D. Nguyen , K. P. Tran , X. Zeng , L. Koehl , G. Tartare

We present a domain- and user-preference-agnostic approach to detect highlightable excerpts from human-centric videos. Our method works on the graph-based representation of multiple observable human-centric modalities in the videos, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Uttaran Bhattacharya , Gang Wu , Stefano Petrangeli , Viswanathan Swaminathan , Dinesh Manocha

Recent methods for video action recognition have reached outstanding performances on existing benchmarks. However, they tend to leverage context such as scenes or objects instead of focusing on understanding the human action itself. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Philippe Weinzaepfel , Grégory Rogez

Wearable HAR has improved steadily, but most progress still relies on closed-set classification, which limits real-world use. In practice, human activity is open-ended, unscripted, personalized, and often compositional, unfolding as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Mengxi Liu , Alcina Pinto , Deepika Gurung , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowoicz , Bo Zhou

Human action recognition has been one of the most active fields of research in computer vision for last years. Two dimensional action recognition methods are facing serious challenges such as occlusion and missing the third dimension of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Mozhgan Mokari , Hoda Mohammadzade , Benyamin Ghojogh

The models in statistical physics such as an Ising model offer a convenient way to characterize stationary activity of neural populations. Such stationary activity of neurons may be expected for recordings from in vitro slices or…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-05 Christian Donner , Klaus Obermayer , Hideaki Shimazaki

Vision-based human activity recognition (HAR) has made substantial progress in recognizing predefined gestures but lacks adaptability for emerging activities. This paper introduces a paradigm shift by harnessing generative modeling and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Nikhil Kashyap , Manas Satish Bedmutha , Prerit Chaudhary , Brian Wood , Wanda Pratt , Janice Sabin , Andrea Hartzler , Nadir Weibel