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Action quality assessment (AQA) is an active research problem in video-based applications that is a challenging task due to the score variance per frame. Existing methods address this problem via convolutional-based approaches but suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Abhay Iyer , Mohammad Alali , Hemanth Bodala , Sunit Vaidya

Action Quality Assessment(AQA) is important for action understanding and resolving the task poses unique challenges due to subtle visual differences. Existing state-of-the-art methods typically rely on the holistic video representations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yang Bai , Desen Zhou , Songyang Zhang , Jian Wang , Errui Ding , Yu Guan , Yang Long , Jingdong Wang

Human pose serves as a cornerstone of action quality assessment (AQA), where subtle spatial-temporal variations in pose often distinguish excellence from mediocrity. In high-level competitions, these nuanced differences become decisive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shuaikang Zhu , Yang Yang , Chen Sun

Efficient video recognition is a hot-spot research topic with the explosive growth of multimedia data on the Internet and mobile devices. Most existing methods select the salient frames without awareness of the class-specific saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Boyang Xia , Zhihao Wang , Wenhao Wu , Haoran Wang , Jungong Han

Skeleton-based human action recognition has achieved a great interest in recent years, as skeleton data has been demonstrated to be robust to illumination changes, body scales, dynamic camera views, and complex background. Nevertheless, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Chiara Plizzari , Marco Cannici , Matteo Matteucci

Self-attention learns pairwise interactions to model long-range dependencies, yielding great improvements for video action recognition. In this paper, we seek a deeper understanding of self-attention for temporal modeling in videos. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Bo He , Xitong Yang , Zuxuan Wu , Hao Chen , Ser-Nam Lim , Abhinav Shrivastava

Visual attention has been extensively studied for learning fine-grained features in both facial expression recognition (FER) and Action Unit (AU) detection. A broad range of previous research has explored how to use attention modules to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Xiaotian Li , Zhihua Li , Huiyuan Yang , Geran Zhao , Lijun Yin

Action Quality Assessment (AQA) aims to evaluate and score sports actions, which has attracted widespread interest in recent years. Existing AQA methods primarily predict scores based on features extracted from the entire video, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yongji Zhang , Siqi Li , Yue Gao , Yu Jiang

Action quality assessment (AQA) has become an emerging topic since it can be extensively applied in numerous scenarios. However, most existing methods and datasets focus on single-person short-sequence scenes, hindering the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shiyi Zhang , Wenxun Dai , Sujia Wang , Xiangwei Shen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou , Yansong Tang

3D convolutional neural networks have achieved promising results for video tasks in computer vision, including video saliency prediction that is explored in this paper. However, 3D convolution encodes visual representation merely on fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ziqiang Wang , Zhi Liu , Gongyang Li , Yang Wang , Tianhong Zhang , Lihua Xu , Jijun Wang

Accurately estimating humans' subjective feedback on video fluency, e.g., motion consistency and frame continuity, is crucial for various applications like streaming and gaming. Yet, it has long been overlooked, as prior arts have focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Qizhi Xie , Kun Yuan , Yunpeng Qu , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Jihong Zhu

Self-attention (SA) network has shown profound value in image captioning. In this paper, we improve SA from two aspects to promote the performance of image captioning. First, we propose Normalized Self-Attention (NSA), a reparameterization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Longteng Guo , Jing Liu , Xinxin Zhu , Peng Yao , Shichen Lu , Hanqing Lu

Dominant approaches to action detection can only provide sub-optimal solutions to the problem, as they rely on seeking frame-level detections, to later compose them into "action tubes" in a post-processing step. With this paper we radically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Suman Saha , Gurkirt Singh , Fabio Cuzzolin

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with channel-wise feature refining mechanisms have brought noticeable benefits to modelling channel dependencies. However, current attention paradigms fail to infer an optimal channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Nick Nikzad , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou

Action Quality Assessment (AQA) -- the task of quantifying how well an action is performed -- has great potential for detecting errors in gym weight training, where accurate feedback is critical to prevent injuries and maximize gains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hao Yin , Lijun Gu , Paritosh Parmar , Lin Xu , Tianxiao Guo , Xiujin Liu , Weiwei Fu , Yang Zhang , Tianyou Zheng

Self-attention has been successfully applied to video representation learning due to the effectiveness of modeling long range dependencies. Existing approaches build the dependencies merely by computing the pairwise correlations along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Xudong Guo , Xun Guo , Yan Lu

In recent years, 2D Convolutional Networks-based video action recognition has encouragingly gained wide popularity; However, constrained by the lack of long-range non-linear temporal relation modeling and reverse motion information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Yongkang Zhang , Jun Li , Guoming Wu , Han Zhang , Zhiping Shi , Zhaoxun Liu , Zizhang Wu

Most neural network-based classifiers extract features using several hidden layers and make predictions at the output layer by utilizing these extracted features. We observe that not all features are equally pronounced in all classes; we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yifan Hao , Huiping Cao , K. Selcuk Candan , Jiefei Liu , Huiying Chen , Ziwei Ma

In recent times, learning-based methods for video deraining have demonstrated commendable results. However, there are two critical challenges that these methods are yet to address: exploiting temporal correlations among adjacent frames and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinwei Xue , Jia He , Long Ma , Xiangyu Meng , Wenlin Li , Risheng Liu

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) is an essential and challenging topic in video understanding, aiming to localize the temporal segments containing human action instances and predict the action categories. The previous works greatly rely upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jiannan Wu , Peize Sun , Shoufa Chen , Jiewen Yang , Zihao Qi , Lan Ma , Ping Luo