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Detecting actions in videos, particularly within cluttered scenes, poses significant challenges due to the limitations of 2D frame analysis from a camera perspective. Unlike human vision, which benefits from 3D understanding, recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Sadegh Rahmaniboldaji , Filip Rybansky , Quoc Vuong , Frank Guerin , Andrew Gilbert

Classifying the behavior of humans or animals from videos is important in biomedical fields for understanding brain function and response to stimuli. Action recognition, classifying activities performed by one or more subjects in a trimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Michael Perez , Corey Toler-Franklin

Action recognition is an important research topic in computer vision. It is the basic work for visual understanding and has been applied in many fields. Since human actions can vary in different environments, it is difficult to infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Dong Cao , Lisha Xu , Dongdong Zhang

Learning the spatial-temporal representation of motion information is crucial to human action recognition. Nevertheless, most of the existing features or descriptors cannot capture motion information effectively, especially for long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Yemin Shi , Yonghong Tian , Yaowei Wang , Tiejun Huang

In skeleton-based action recognition, a key challenge is distinguishing between actions with similar trajectories of joints due to the lack of image-level details in skeletal representations. Recognizing that the differentiation of similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Hongda Liu , Yunfan Liu , Min Ren , Hao Wang , Yunlong Wang , Zhenan Sun

Skeleton-based action recognition has achieved remarkable results in human action recognition with the development of graph convolutional networks (GCNs). However, the recent works tend to construct complex learning mechanisms with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Dongjingdin Liu , Pengpeng Chen , Miao Yao , Yijing Lu , Zijie Cai , Yuxin Tian

Human action recognition is an important application domain in computer vision. Its primary aim is to accurately describe human actions and their interactions from a previously unseen data sequence acquired by sensors. The ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Hieu H. Pham , Louahdi Khoudour , Alain Crouzil , Pablo Zegers , Sergio A. Velastin

Real-world face detection and alignment demand an advanced discriminative model to address challenges by pose, lighting and expression. Illuminated by the deep learning algorithm, some convolutional neural networks based face detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Weilin Cong , Sanyuan Zhao , Hui Tian , Jianbing Shen

Human skeleton joints are popular for action analysis since they can be easily extracted from videos to discard background noises. However, current skeleton representations do not fully benefit from machine learning with CNNs. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Jian Liu , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

In this paper, we propose a computational efficient end-to-end training deep neural network (CEDNN) model and spatial attention maps based on difference images. Firstly, the difference image is generated by image processing. Then five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Jing Chen , Chenhui Wang , Kejun Wang , Meichen Liu

We address the problem of action detection in videos. Driven by the latest progress in object detection from 2D images, we build action models using rich feature hierarchies derived from shape and kinematic cues. We incorporate appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Georgia Gkioxari , Jitendra Malik

Automatic recognition of facial gestures is becoming increasingly important as real world AI agents become a reality. In this paper, we present an automated system that recognizes facial gestures by capturing local changes and encoding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Nadav Israel , Lior Wolf , Ran Barzilay , Gal Shoval

Most current action recognition methods heavily rely on appearance information by taking an RGB sequence of entire image regions as input. While being effective in exploiting contextual information around humans, e.g., human appearance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Gyeongsik Moon , Heeseung Kwon , Kyoung Mu Lee , Minsu Cho

Emotion recognition through body movements has emerged as a compelling and privacy-preserving alternative to traditional methods that rely on facial expressions or physiological signals. Recent advancements in 3D skeleton acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haifeng Lu , Jiuyi Chen , Zhen Zhang , Ruida Liu , Runhao Zeng , Xiping Hu

Action recognition is also key for applications ranging from robotics to healthcare monitoring. Action information can be extracted from the body pose and movements, as well as from the background scene. However, the extent to which deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Aidas Aglinskas , Stefano Anzellotti

Human character animation is often critical in entertainment content production, including video games, virtual reality or fiction films. To this end, deep neural networks drive most recent advances through deep learning and deep…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-24 L. Mourot , L. Hoyet , F. Le Clerc , François Schnitzler , Pierre Hellier

Contemporary approaches to solving various problems that require analyzing three-dimensional (3D) meshes and point clouds have adopted the use of deep learning algorithms that directly process 3D data such as point coordinates, normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Stefan Novaković , Vladimir Risojević

The motion analysis of human skeletons is crucial for human action recognition, which is one of the most active topics in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a fully end-to-end action-attending graphic neural network (A$^2$GNN) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Chaolong Li , Zhen Cui , Wenming Zheng , Chunyan Xu , Rongrong Ji , Jian Yang

Effective processing of video input is essential for the recognition of temporally varying events such as human actions. Motivated by the often distinctive temporal characteristics of actions in either horizontal or vertical direction, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Alexandros Stergiou , Ronald Poppe

Detecting representative frames in videos based on human actions is quite challenging because of the combined factors of human pose in action and the background. This paper addresses this problem and formulates the key frame detection as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Xiang Yan , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Hanlin Qin , Mingtao Feng , Liang Zhang , Ajmal Mian