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Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for skeleton-based action and gesture recognition, thanks to their ability to model spatial and temporal dependencies in skeleton data. However, existing GCN-based methods…

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In this paper, we present Fusion-GCN, an approach for multimodal action recognition using Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs). Action recognition methods based around GCNs recently yielded state-of-the-art performance for skeleton-based…

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Graph convolution networks (GCN) have been widely used in skeleton-based action recognition. We note that existing GCN-based approaches primarily rely on prescribed graphical structures (ie., a manually defined topology of skeleton joints),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Haodong Duan , Jiaqi Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin

Action recognition with skeleton data has recently attracted much attention in computer vision. Previous studies are mostly based on fixed skeleton graphs, only capturing local physical dependencies among joints, which may miss implicit…

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Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have proven to be highly effective for skeleton-based action recognition, primarily due to their ability to leverage graph topology for feature aggregation, a key factor in extracting meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Haiqing Ren , Zhongkai Luo , Heng Fan , Xiaohui Yuan , Guanchen Wang , Libo Zhang

Human skeleton information is important in skeleton-based action recognition, which provides a simple and efficient way to describe human pose. However, existing skeleton-based methods focus more on the skeleton, ignoring the objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Hao Wen , Ziqian Lu , Fengli Shen , Zhe-Ming Lu , Jialin Cui

With the advances in capturing 2D or 3D skeleton data, skeleton-based action recognition has received an increasing interest over the last years. As skeleton data is commonly represented by graphs, graph convolutional networks have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Shijie Li , Jinhui Yi , Yazan Abu Farha , Juergen Gall

In recent years, graph convolutional networks (GCNs) play an increasingly critical role in skeleton-based human action recognition. However, most GCN-based methods still have two main limitations: 1) They only consider the motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Zhigang Tu , Jiaxu Zhang , Hongyan Li , Yujin Chen , Junsong Yuan

Skeleton-based action recognition (SAR) in videos is an important but challenging task in computer vision. The recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) models for SAR are primarily based on graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs), which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Lei Jiang , Weixin Yang , Xin Zhang , Hao Ni

Dynamics of human body skeletons convey significant information for human action recognition. Conventional approaches for modeling skeletons usually rely on hand-crafted parts or traversal rules, thus resulting in limited expressive power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Sijie Yan , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin

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

For multimodal skeleton-based action recognition, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are effective models. Still, their reliance on floating-point computations leads to high energy consumption, limiting their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Naichuan Zheng , Yuchen Du , Hailun Xia , Zeyu Liang

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been very successful in modeling non-Euclidean data structures, like sequences of body skeletons forming actions modeled as spatio-temporal graphs. Most GCN-based action recognition methods use deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Negar Heidari , Alexandros Iosifidis

In skeleton-based action recognition, graph convolutional networks (GCNs), which model the human body skeletons as spatiotemporal graphs, have achieved remarkable performance. However, in existing GCN-based methods, the topology of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Lei Shi , Yifan Zhang , Jian Cheng , Hanqing Lu

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a field of study that focuses on identifying and classifying human activities. Skeleton-based Human Activity Recognition has received much attention in recent years, where Graph Convolutional Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Jingyao Wang , Emmanuel Bergeret , Issam Falih

Accurate temporal segmentation of human actions is critical for intelligent robots in collaborative settings, where a precise understanding of sub-activity labels and their temporal structure is essential. However, the inherent noise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hao Xing , Kai Zhe Boey , Yuankai Wu , Darius Burschka , Gordon Cheng

Action recognition is a key algorithmic part of emerging on-the-edge smart video surveillance and security systems. Skeleton-based action recognition is an attractive approach which, instead of using RGB pixel data, relies on human pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Justin Sanchez , Christopher Neff , Hamed Tabkhi

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have attracted increasing interests for the task of skeleton-based action recognition. The key lies in the design of the graph structure, which encodes skeleton topology information. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Fanfan Ye , Shiliang Pu , Qiaoyong Zhong , Chao Li , Di Xie , Huiming Tang

Learning graph convolutional networks (GCNs) is an emerging field which aims at generalizing convolutional operations to arbitrary non-regular domains. In particular, GCNs operating on spatial domains show superior performances compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Hichem Sahbi

Graph convolutional networks have been widely used in skeleton-based action recognition. However, existing approaches are limited in fine-grained action recognition due to the similarity of inter-class data. Moreover, the noisy data from…

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