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Pose detection is one of the fundamental steps for the recognition of human actions. In this paper we propose a novel trainable detector for recognizing human poses based on the analysis of the skeleton. The main idea is that a skeleton…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Alessia Saggese , Nicola Strisciuglio , Mario Vento , Nicolai Petkov

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) have shown promising performances in many computer vision tasks, especially image-based recognition. How to effectively use ConvNets for video-based recognition is still an open problem. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pichao Wang , Zhaoyang Li , Yonghong Hou , Wanqing Li

Gait recognition is a promising biometric with unique properties for identifying individuals from a long distance by their walking patterns. In recent years, most gait recognition methods used the person's silhouette to extract the gait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Torben Teepe , Johannes Gilg , Fabian Herzog , Stefan Hörmann , Gerhard Rigoll

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have proven to be an effective approach for 3D human pose estimation. By naturally modeling the skeleton structure of the human body as a graph, GCNs are able to capture the spatial relationships between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zaedul Islam , A. Ben Hamza

Skeleton-based human action recognition leverages sequences of human joint coordinates to identify actions performed in videos. Owing to the intrinsic spatiotemporal structure of skeleton data, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yusen Peng , Alper Yilmaz

It remains a challenge to efficiently extract spatialtemporal information from skeleton sequences for 3D human action recognition. Although most recent action recognition methods are based on Recurrent Neural Networks which present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Hong Liu , Juanhui Tu , Mengyuan Liu

Skeleton-based human action recognition is a powerful approach for understanding human behaviour from pose data, but collecting large-scale, diverse, and well-annotated 3D skeleton datasets is both expensive and labor-intensive. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xu Dong , Wanqing Li , Anthony Adeyemi-Ejeye , Andrew Gilbert

Despite recent success on 2D human pose estimation, 3D human pose estimation still remains an open problem. A key challenge is the ill-posed depth ambiguity nature. This paper presents a novel intermediate feature representation named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Qingfu Wan , Wei Zhang , Xiangyang Xue

3D skeleton-based action recognition and motion prediction are two essential problems of human activity understanding. In many previous works: 1) they studied two tasks separately, neglecting internal correlations; 2) they did not capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Maosen Li , Siheng Chen , Xu Chen , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

Gait recognition is a promising video-based biometric for identifying individual walking patterns from a long distance. At present, most gait recognition methods use silhouette images to represent a person in each frame. However, silhouette…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Torben Teepe , Ali Khan , Johannes Gilg , Fabian Herzog , Stefan Hörmann , Gerhard Rigoll

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) can effectively capture the features of related nodes and improve the performance of the model. More attention is paid to employing GCN in Skeleton-Based action recognition. But existing methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Tingwei Li , Ruiwen Zhang , Qing Li

Group Activity Recognition aims to understand collective activities from videos. Existing solutions primarily rely on the RGB modality, which encounters challenges such as background variations, occlusions, motion blurs, and significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zhengcen Li , Xinle Chang , Yueran Li , Jingyong Su

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition facilitates unobtrusive monitoring of human movements. However, determining the most effective sensor placement for optimal classification performance remains challenging. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Orhan Konak , Alexander Wischmann , Robin van de Water , Bert Arnrich

Action recognition from well-segmented 3D skeleton video has been intensively studied. However, due to the difficulty in representing the 3D skeleton video and the lack of training data, action detection from streaming 3D skeleton video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Bo Li , Huahui Chen , Yucheng Chen , Yuchao Dai , Mingyi He

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs), which generalize CNNs to more generic non-Euclidean structures, have achieved remarkable performance for skeleton-based action recognition. However, there still exist several issues in the previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Lei Shi , Yifan Zhang , Jian Cheng , Hanqing Lu

Combining skeleton structure with graph convolutional networks has achieved remarkable performance in human action recognition. Since current research focuses on designing basic graph for representing skeleton data, these embedding features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Dong Yang , Monica Mengqi Li , Hong Fu , Jicong Fan , Zhao Zhang , Howard Leung

3D skeleton-based motion prediction and activity recognition are two interwoven tasks in human behaviour analysis. In this work, we propose a motion context modeling methodology that provides a new way to combine the advantages of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Dianhao Zhang , Ngo Anh Vien , Mien Van , Sean McLoone

Skeleton-based action recognition has attracted research attentions in recent years. One common drawback in currently popular skeleton-based human action recognition methods is that the sparse skeleton information alone is not sufficient to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Jinmiao Cai , Nianjuan Jiang , Xiaoguang Han , Kui Jia , Jiangbo Lu

This work targets human action recognition in video. While recent methods typically represent actions by statistics of local video features, here we argue for the importance of a representation derived from human pose. To this end we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Guilhem Chéron , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

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