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Skeleton-based action recognition has recently attracted a lot of attention. Researchers are coming up with new approaches for extracting spatio-temporal relations and making considerable progress on large-scale skeleton-based datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Sangwoo Cho , Muhammad Hasan Maqbool , Fei Liu , Hassan Foroosh

Human actions comprise of joint motion of articulated body parts or `gestures'. Human skeleton is intuitively represented as a sparse graph with joints as nodes and natural connections between them as edges. Graph convolutional networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Kalpit Thakkar , P J Narayanan

Skeleton data is of low dimension. However, there is a trend of using very deep and complicated feedforward neural networks to model the skeleton sequence without considering the complexity in recent year. In this paper, a simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Pengfei Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Junliang Xing , Jianru Xue , Nanning Zheng

Action recognition has been a heated topic in computer vision for its wide application in vision systems. Previous approaches achieve improvement by fusing the modalities of the skeleton sequence and RGB video. However, such methods have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Xiaoguang Zhu , Ye Zhu , Haoyu Wang , Honglin Wen , Yan Yan , Peilin Liu

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

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

In skeleton-based action recognition, Graph Convolutional Networks model human skeletal joints as vertices and connect them through an adjacency matrix, which can be seen as a local attention mask. However, in most existing Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Hao Xing , Darius Burschka

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

Human action video recognition has recently attracted more attention in applications such as video security and sports posture correction. Popular solutions, including graph convolutional networks (GCNs) that model the human skeleton as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Zhendong Liu , Haifeng Xia , Tong Guo , Libo Sun , Ming Shao , Siyu Xia

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

Skeleton-based human action recognition has attracted a lot of research attention during the past few years. Recent works attempted to utilize recurrent neural networks to model the temporal dependencies between the 3D positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Jun Liu , Amir Shahroudy , Dong Xu , Alex C. Kot , Gang Wang

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

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) based methods have achieved advanced performance on skeleton-based action recognition task. However, the skeleton graph cannot fully represent the motion information contained in skeleton data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Jinfeng Wei , Yunxin Wang , Mengli Guo , Pei Lv , Xiaoshan Yang , Mingliang Xu

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

Modelling various spatio-temporal dependencies is the key to recognising human actions in skeleton sequences. Most existing methods excessively relied on the design of traversal rules or graph topologies to draw the dependencies of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Tailin Chen , Shidong Wang , Desen Zhou , Yu Guan

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have emerged as dominant methods for skeleton-based action recognition. However, they still suffer from two problems, namely, neighborhood constraints and entangled spatiotemporal feature representations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Ruwen Bai , Min Li , Bo Meng , Fengfa Li , Miao Jiang , Junxing Ren , Degang Sun

Due to the compact and rich high-level representations offered, skeleton-based human action recognition has recently become a highly active research topic. Previous studies have demonstrated that investigating joint relationships in spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Ali Farajzadeh Bavil , Hamed Damirchi , Hamid D. Taghirad

Recently, there has been a remarkable increase in the interest towards skeleton-based action recognition within the research community, owing to its various advantageous features, including computational efficiency, representative features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ayman Ali , Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong , Pu Wang , Mohsen Dorodchi

Skeleton-based action recognition using GCNs has achieved remarkable performance, but recognizing ambiguous actions, such as "waving" and "saluting", remains a significant challenge. Existing methods typically rely on a serial combination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hao Huang , Yujie Lin , Siyu Chen , Haiyang Liu

We propose novel Stacked Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks (Stacked-STGCN) for action segmentation, i.e., predicting and localizing a sequence of actions over long videos. We extend the Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Pallabi Ghosh , Yi Yao , Larry S. Davis , Ajay Divakaran