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Recognizing human actions in untrimmed videos is an important challenging task. An effective 3D motion representation and a powerful learning model are two key factors influencing recognition performance. In this paper we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Huy-Hieu Pham , Louahdi Khoudour , Alain Crouzil , Pablo Zegers , Sergio A. Velastin

Skeleton-based Human Activity Recognition has achieved great interest in recent years as skeleton data has demonstrated being robust to illumination changes, body scales, dynamic camera views, and complex background. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Chiara Plizzari , Marco Cannici , Matteo Matteucci

Rapid progress and superior performance have been achieved for skeleton-based action recognition recently. In this article, we investigate this problem under a cross-dataset setting, which is a new, pragmatic, and challenging task in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yansong Tang , Xingyu Liu , Xumin Yu , Danyang Zhang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Cross view action recognition (CVAR) seeks to recognize a human action when observed from a previously unseen viewpoint. This is a challenging problem since the appearance of an action changes significantly with the viewpoint. Applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yuexi Zhang , Dan Luo , Balaji Sundareshan , Octavia Camps , Mario Sznaier

Human skeleton-based action recognition has long been an indispensable aspect of artificial intelligence. Current state-of-the-art methods tend to consider only the dependencies between connected skeletal joints, limiting their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yuheng Yang

This article proposes a novel approach for augmenting generative adversarial network (GAN) with a self-supervised task in order to improve its ability for encoding video representations that are useful in downstream tasks such as human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Mohammad Zaki Zadeh , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Ashish Jaiswal , Fillia Makedon

Action recognition via 3D skeleton data is an emerging important topic in these years. Most existing methods either extract hand-crafted descriptors or learn action representations by supervised learning paradigms that require massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Haocong Rao , Shihao Xu , Xiping Hu , Jun Cheng , Bin Hu

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

Human skeleton, as a compact representation of human action, has received increasing attention in recent years. Many skeleton-based action recognition methods adopt graph convolutional networks (GCN) to extract features on top of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Haodong Duan , Yue Zhao , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

In this work, we propose a Cross-view Contrastive Learning framework for unsupervised 3D skeleton-based action Representation (CrosSCLR), by leveraging multi-view complementary supervision signal. CrosSCLR consists of both single-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Linguo Li , Minsi Wang , Bingbing Ni , Hang Wang , Jiancheng Yang , Wenjun Zhang

In this paper, we focus on the unsupervised multi-view feature selection which tries to handle high dimensional data in the field of multi-view learning. Although some graph-based methods have achieved satisfactory performance, they ignore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Qi Wang , Xu Jiang , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

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

Contrastive learning has gained significant attention in skeleton-based action recognition for its ability to learn robust representations from unlabeled data. However, existing methods rely on a single skeleton convention, which limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Mert Kiray , Alvaro Ritter , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

With the advances in capturing 2D or 3D skeleton data, skeleton-based action recognition has received an increasing interest over the last years. As skeleton data is commonly represented by graphs, graph convolutional networks have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Shijie Li , Jinhui Yi , Yazan Abu Farha , Juergen Gall

Gait-based person re-identification (Re-ID) is valuable for safety-critical applications, and using only 3D skeleton data to extract discriminative gait features for person Re-ID is an emerging open topic. Existing methods either adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Haocong Rao , Siqi Wang , Xiping Hu , Mingkui Tan , Huang Da , Jun Cheng , Bin Hu

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

With the development of robotics, skeleton-based action recognition has become increasingly important, as human-robot interaction requires understanding the actions of humans and humanoid robots. Due to different sources of human skeletons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jidong Kuang , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui

Human action recognition is an important task in computer vision. Extracting discriminative spatial and temporal features to model the spatial and temporal evolutions of different actions plays a key role in accomplishing this task. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Sijie Song , Cuiling Lan , Junliang Xing , Wenjun Zeng , Jiaying Liu

The self-supervised pretraining paradigm has achieved great success in learning 3D action representations for skeleton-based action recognition using contrastive learning. However, learning effective representations for skeleton-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Qiushuo Cheng , Jingjing Liu , Catherine Morgan , Alan Whone , Majid Mirmehdi

Variations of human body skeletons may be considered as dynamic graphs, which are generic data representation for numerous real-world applications. In this paper, we propose a spatio-temporal graph convolution (STGC) approach for assembling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Chaolong Li , Zhen Cui , Wenming Zheng , Chunyan Xu , Jian Yang