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Current state-of-the-art approaches to skeleton-based action recognition are mostly based on recurrent neural networks (RNN). In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural networks (CNN) based framework for both action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Chao Li , Qiaoyong Zhong , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

Video-based human action recognition is currently one of the most active research areas in computer vision. Various research studies indicate that the performance of action recognition is highly dependent on the type of features being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Lei Wang , Du Q. Huynh , Piotr Koniusz

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

The shared topology of human skeletons motivated the recent investigation of graph convolutional network (GCN) solutions for action recognition. However, most of the existing GCNs rely on the binary connection of two neighboring vertices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Youwei Zhou , Tianyang Xu , Cong Wu , Xiaojun Wu , Josef Kittler

Skeleton-based action recognition has gained significant attention for its ability to efficiently represent spatiotemporal information in a lightweight format. Most existing approaches use graph-based models to process skeleton sequences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jushang Qiu , Lei Wang

In skeleton-based action recognition, a key challenge is distinguishing between actions with similar trajectories of joints due to the lack of image-level details in skeletal representations. Recognizing that the differentiation of similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Hongda Liu , Yunfan Liu , Min Ren , Hao Wang , Yunlong Wang , Zhenan Sun

Generating long-range skeleton-based human actions has been a challenging problem since small deviations of one frame can cause a malformed action sequence. Most existing methods borrow ideas from video generation, which naively treat…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Ping Yu , Yang Zhao , Chunyuan Li , Junsong Yuan , Changyou Chen

Skeleton-based action recognition is an important task that requires the adequate understanding of movement characteristics of a human action from the given skeleton sequence. Recent studies have shown that exploring spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Chenyang Si , Wentao Chen , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

Skeleton-based human action recognition has attracted much attention with the prevalence of accessible depth sensors. Recently, graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been widely used for this task due to their powerful capability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Zhen Huang , Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Houqiang Li , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua

In visual surveillance systems, it is necessary to recognize the behavior of people handling objects such as a phone, a cup, or a plastic bag. In this paper, to address this problem, we propose a new framework for recognizing object-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Sunoh Kim , Kimin Yun , Jongyoul Park , Jin Young Choi

With the prevalence of accessible depth sensors, dynamic human body skeletons have attracted much attention as a robust modality for action recognition. Previous methods model skeletons based on RNN or CNN, which has limited expressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Jiaxiang Tang , Jiaying Liu , Zongming Guo

It is known that the kinematics of the human body skeleton reveals valuable information in action recognition. Recently, modeling skeletons as spatio-temporal graphs with Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) has been reported to solidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Bruno Degardin , Vasco Lopes , Hugo Proença

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

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

Skeleton-based action recognition is a hotspot in image processing. A key challenge of this task lies in its dependence on large, manually labeled datasets whose acquisition is costly and time-consuming. This paper devises a novel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hichem Sahbi

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Michael Duhme , Raphael Memmesheimer , Dietrich Paulus

Due to the fast processing-speed and robustness it can achieve, skeleton-based action recognition has recently received the attention of the computer vision community. The recent Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based methods have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Han Chen , Yifan Jiang , Hanseok Ko

One essential problem in skeleton-based action recognition is how to extract discriminative features over all skeleton joints. However, the complexity of the State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) models of this task tends to be exceedingly sophisticated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Yi-Fan Song , Zhang Zhang , Caifeng Shan , Liang Wang

Skeleton-based human action recognition has received widespread attention in recent years due to its diverse range of application scenarios. Due to the different sources of human skeletons, skeleton data naturally exhibit heterogeneity. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Hongsong Wang , Xiaoyan Ma , Jidong Kuang , Jie Gui