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Understanding people's actions and interactions typically depends on seeing them. Automating the process of action recognition from visual data has been the topic of much research in the computer vision community. But what if it is too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Tianhong Li , Lijie Fan , Mingmin Zhao , Yingcheng Liu , Dina Katabi

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a significant role in the everyday life of people because of its ability to learn extensive high-level information about human activity from wearable or stationary devices. A substantial amount of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Md. Milon Islam , Sheikh Nooruddin , Fakhri Karray , Ghulam Muhammad

Recent methods for video action recognition have reached outstanding performances on existing benchmarks. However, they tend to leverage context such as scenes or objects instead of focusing on understanding the human action itself. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Philippe Weinzaepfel , Grégory Rogez

The ability to identify and temporally segment fine-grained human actions throughout a video is crucial for robotics, surveillance, education, and beyond. Typical approaches decouple this problem by first extracting local spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Colin Lea , Michael D. Flynn , Rene Vidal , Austin Reiter , Gregory D. Hager

Research on video activity detection has primarily focused on identifying well-defined human activities in short video segments. The majority of the research on video activity recognition is focused on the development of large parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Venkatesh Jatla , Sravani Teeparthi , Ugesh Egala , Sylvia Celedon Pattichis , Marios S. Patticis

Our objective is to develop compact video representations that are sensitive to visual change over time. To measure such time-sensitivity, we introduce a new task: chiral action recognition, where one needs to distinguish between a pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Piyush Bagad , Andrew Zisserman

Behaviour selection has been an active research topic for robotics, in particular in the field of human-robot interaction. For a robot to interact effectively and autonomously with humans, the coupling between techniques for human activity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Caetano M. Ranieri , Renan C. Moioli , Patricia A. Vargas , Roseli A. F. Romero

Action recognition is an important problem that requires identifying actions in video by learning complex interactions across scene actors and objects. However, modern deep-learning based networks often require significant computation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yi Huang , Asim Kadav , Farley Lai , Deep Patel , Hans Peter Graf

In this work we propose a novel neural network architecture for the problem of human action recognition in videos. The proposed architecture expresses the processing steps of classical Fisher vector approaches, that is dimensionality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Petar Palasek , Ioannis Patras

In this work, we present an appearance based human activity recognition system. It uses background modeling to segment the foreground object and extracts useful discriminative features for representing activities performed by humans and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Bappaditya Mandal

Current video/action understanding systems have demonstrated impressive performance on large recognition tasks. However, they might be limiting themselves to learning to recognize spatiotemporal patterns, rather than attempting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Paritosh Parmar , Brendan Morris

Tiny Actions Challenge focuses on understanding human activities in real-world surveillance. Basically, there are two main difficulties for activity recognition in this scenario. First, human activities are often recorded at a distance, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Boyu Chen , Yu Qiao , Yali Wang

In this paper, a novel video classification method is presented that aims to recognize different categories of third-person videos efficiently. Our motivation is to achieve a light model that could be trained with insufficient training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ali Javidani , Ahmad Mahmoudi-Aznaveh

Anomaly detection in surveillance videos is currently a challenge because of the diversity of possible events. We propose a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that addresses this problem by learning a correspondence between common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Trong Nguyen Nguyen , Jean Meunier

Human activity recognition using smart home sensors is one of the bases of ubiquitous computing in smart environments and a topic undergoing intense research in the field of ambient assisted living. The increasingly large amount of data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Deepika Singh , Erinc Merdivan , Ismini Psychoula , Johannes Kropf , Sten Hanke , Matthieu Geist , Andreas Holzinger

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) simply refers to the capacity of a machine to perceive human actions. HAR is a prominent application of advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques that utilize computer vision to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Niloy Sikder , Md. Sanaullah Chowdhury , Abu Shamim Mohammad Arif , Abdullah-Al Nahid

Detecting unintended falls is essential for ambient intelligence and healthcare of elderly people living alone. In recent years, deep convolutional nets are widely used in human action analysis, based on which a number of fall detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yan Zhang , Heiko Neumann

Recent neural network architectures have claimed to explain data from the human visual cortex. Their demonstrated performance is however still limited by the dependence on exploiting low-level features for solving visual tasks. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Dakarai Crowder , Girik Malik

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are powerful tools for solving visuomotor decision tasks. However, the trained models are often difficult to interpret, because they are represented as end-to-end deep neural networks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Sihang Guo , Ruohan Zhang , Bo Liu , Yifeng Zhu , Mary Hayhoe , Dana Ballard , Peter Stone

Distilling knowledge from human demonstrations is a promising way for robots to learn and act. Existing methods, which often rely on coarsely-aligned video pairs, are typically constrained to learning global or task-level features. As a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sicheng Xie , Haidong Cao , Zejia Weng , Zhen Xing , Haoran Chen , Shiwei Shen , Jiaqi Leng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang