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Skeleton-based human action recognition aims to classify human skeletal sequences, which are spatiotemporal representations of actions, into predefined categories. To reduce the reliance on costly annotations of skeletal sequences while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zhigang Tu , Zhengbo Zhang , Jia Gong , Junsong Yuan , Bo Du

Self-supervised learning has been successfully applied to pre-train video representations, which aims at efficient adaptation from pre-training domain to downstream tasks. Existing approaches merely leverage contrastive loss to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yuanze Lin , Xun Guo , Yan Lu

This paper presents a novel end-to-end method for the problem of skeleton-based unsupervised human action recognition. We propose a new architecture with a convolutional autoencoder that uses graph Laplacian regularization to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Giancarlo Paoletti , Jacopo Cavazza , Cigdem Beyan , Alessio Del Bue

The recent success in human action recognition with deep learning methods mostly adopt the supervised learning paradigm, which requires significant amount of manually labeled data to achieve good performance. However, label collection is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan S. Kankanhalli

Self-supervised, multi-modal learning has been successful in holistic representation of complex scenarios. This can be useful to consolidate information from multiple modalities which have multiple, versatile uses. Its application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Aniruddha Tamhane , Jie Ying Wu , Mathias Unberath

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

To extract robust and generalizable skeleton action recognition features, large amounts of well-curated data are typically required, which is a challenging task hindered by annotation and computation costs. Therefore, unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Safwen Naimi , Wassim Bouachir , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau

The task of skeleton-based action recognition remains a core challenge in human-centred scene understanding due to the multiple granularities and large variation in human motion. Existing approaches typically employ a single neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Tailin Chen , Desen Zhou , Jian Wang , Shidong Wang , Yu Guan , Xuming He , Errui Ding

In this paper, we focus on unsupervised representation learning for skeleton-based action recognition. Existing approaches usually learn action representations by sequential prediction but they suffer from the inability to fully learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Shihao Xu , Haocong Rao , Xiping Hu , Bin Hu

In this work, we study different approaches to self-supervised pretraining of object detection models. We first design a general framework to learn a spatially consistent dense representation from an image, by randomly sampling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Trung Dang , Simon Kornblith , Huy Thong Nguyen , Peter Chin , Maryam Khademi

Human action understanding serves as a foundational pillar in the field of intelligent motion perception. Skeletons serve as a modality- and device-agnostic representation for human modeling, and skeleton-based action understanding has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hongsong Wang , Wanjiang Weng , Junbo Wang , Fang Zhao , Guo-Sen Xie , Xin Geng , Liang Wang

Human action recognition is an important task in computer vision. Extracting discriminative spatial and temporal features to model the spatial and temporal evolutions of different actions plays a key role in accomplishing this task. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Sijie Song , Cuiling Lan , Junliang Xing , Wenjun Zeng , Jiaying Liu

Action recognition and detection in the context of long untrimmed video sequences has seen an increased attention from the research community. However, annotation of complex activities is usually time consuming and challenging in practice.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Sirnam Swetha , Hilde Kuehne , Yogesh S Rawat , Mubarak Shah

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has made enormous progress and largely narrowed the gap with the supervised ones, where the representation learning is mainly guided by a projection into an embedding space. During the projection, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lang Huang , Shan You , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Recent deep learning models can efficiently combine inputs from different modalities (e.g., images and text) and learn to align their latent representations, or to translate signals from one domain to another (as in image captioning, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Benjamin Devillers , Léopold Maytié , Rufin VanRullen

Self-supervised learning has been widely used to obtain transferrable representations from unlabeled images. Especially, recent contrastive learning methods have shown impressive performances on downstream image classification tasks. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Byungseok Roh , Wuhyun Shin , Ildoo Kim , Sungwoong Kim

Recently, much progress has been made for self-supervised action recognition. Most existing approaches emphasize the contrastive relations among videos, including appearance and motion consistency. However, two main issues remain for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Guanhong Wang , Keyu Lu , Yang Zhou , Zhanhao He , Gaoang Wang

Demonstration-guided reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach for learning complex behaviors by leveraging both reward feedback and a set of target task demonstrations. Prior approaches for demonstration-guided RL treat every new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Karl Pertsch , Youngwoon Lee , Yue Wu , Joseph J. Lim

Skeleton-based temporal action segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task, playing a crucial role in enabling intelligent systems to perceive and respond to human activities. While fully-supervised methods achieve satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hongsong Wang , Yiqin Shen , Pengbo Yan , Jie Gui

How humans understand and recognize the actions of others is a complex neuroscientific problem that involves a combination of cognitive mechanisms and neural networks. Research has shown that humans have brain areas that recognize actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Haojun Xu , Yan Gao , Zheng Hui , Jie Li , Xinbo Gao