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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

Fine-grained human action recognition (FHAR) is challenging because visually similar actions differ by subtle spatio-temporal cues. Many recent systems enhance discriminability with extra modalities (e.g., pose, text, optical flow), but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Imtiaz Ul Hassan , Nik Bessis , Ardhendu Behera

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) aims to recognize activities by training models on massive sensor data. In real-world deployment, a crucial aspect of HAR that has been largely overlooked is that the test sets may have different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Di Xiong , Shuoyuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Wenbo Huang , Chaolei Han

This paper presents a novel approach for automatic recognition of human activities for video surveillance applications. We propose to represent an activity by a combination of category components, and demonstrate that this approach offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Weiyao Lin , Ming-Ting Sun , Radha Poovendran , Zhengyou Zhang

Human action recognition is a well-known computer vision and pattern recognition task of identifying which action a man is actually doing. Extracting the keypoint information of a single human with both spatial and temporal features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Yuke , Yang

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are an effective skeleton-based human action recognition (HAR) technique. GCNs enable the specification of CNNs to a non-Euclidean frame that is more flexible. The previous GCN-based models still have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Faisal Mehmood , Xin Guo , Enqing Chen , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Arif Ali Khan , Sami Ullah

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a challenging, multi-label classification problem as activities may co-occur and sensor signals corresponding to the same activity may vary in different contexts (e.g., different device placements). This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Wen Ge , Guanyi Mou , Emmanuel O. Agu , Kyumin Lee

Affect is often expressed via non-verbal body language such as actions/gestures, which are vital indicators for human behaviors. Recent studies on recognition of fine-grained actions/gestures in monocular images have mainly focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ardhendu Behera , Zachary Wharton , Morteza Ghahremani , Swagat Kumar , Nik Bessis

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) from wearable sensor data identifies movements or activities in unconstrained environments. HAR is a challenging problem as it presents great variability across subjects. Obtaining large amounts of labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Arttu Lämsä , Jaakko Tervonen , Jussi Liikka , Constantino Álvarez Casado , Miguel Bordallo López

Video generation models have recently achieved impressive visual fidelity and temporal coherence. Yet, they continue to struggle with complex, non-rigid motions, especially when synthesizing humans performing dynamic actions such as sports,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Kumar Ashutosh , XuDong Wang , Xi Yin , Kristen Grauman , Adam Polyak , Ishan Misra , Rohit Girdhar

Human action recognition (HAR) in videos has garnered widespread attention due to the rich information in RGB videos. Nevertheless, existing methods for extracting deep features from RGB videos face challenges such as information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mengyuan Liu , Jinfu Liu , Yongkang Jiang , Bin He

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a classification task that aims to classify human activities or predict human behavior by means of features extracted from sensors data. Typical HAR systems use wearable sensors and/or handheld and mobile…

Recognizing human activities in videos is challenging due to the spatio-temporal complexity and context-dependence of human interactions. Prior studies often rely on single input modalities, such as RGB or skeletal data, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Hung Tran , Truyen Tran

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a well-studied field with research dating back to the 1980s. Over time, HAR technologies have evolved significantly from manual feature extraction, rule-based algorithms, and simple machine learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Duc-Anh Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Currently, video behavior recognition is one of the most foundational tasks of computer vision. The 2D neural networks of deep learning are built for recognizing pixel-level information such as images with RGB, RGB-D, or optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zihan Wang , Yang Yang , Zhi Liu , Yifan Zheng

Group activity recognition in video is a complex task due to the need for a model to recognise the actions of all individuals in the video and their complex interactions. Recent studies propose that optimal performance is achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Haritha Thilakarathne , Aiden Nibali , Zhen He , Stuart Morgan

The recognition of behaviors in videos usually requires a combinatorial analysis of the spatial information about objects and their dynamic action information in the temporal dimension. Specifically, behavior recognition may even rely more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Lizong Zhang , Yiming Wang , Bei Hui , Xiujian Zhang , Sijuan Liu , Shuxin Feng

This paper introduces AutoGCN, a generic Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithm for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs). HAR has gained attention due to advances in deep learning, increased data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Felix Tempel , Inga Strümke , Espen Alexander F. Ihlen

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a time series classification task that focuses on identifying the motion patterns from human sensor readings. Adequate data is essential but a major bottleneck for training a generalizable HAR model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Xin Qin , Jindong Wang , Shuo Ma , Wang Lu , Yongchun Zhu , Xing Xie , Yiqiang Chen