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Inspired by ideas in cognitive science, we propose a novel and general approach to solve human motion understanding via pattern completion on a learned latent representation space. Our model outperforms current state-of-the-art methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Yi Tian Xu , Yaqiao Li , David Meger

Human movement is goal-directed and influenced by the spatial layout of the objects in the scene. To plan future human motion, it is crucial to perceive the environment -- imagine how hard it is to navigate a new room with lights off.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Zhe Cao , Hang Gao , Karttikeya Mangalam , Qi-Zhi Cai , Minh Vo , Jitendra Malik

Language-guided human motion synthesis has been a challenging task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human behaviors. Previous methods face limitations in generalization to novel actions, often resulting in unrealistic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yuanhao Zhai , Mingzhen Huang , Tianyu Luan , Lu Dong , Ifeoma Nwogu , Siwei Lyu , David Doermann , Junsong Yuan

Human motion prediction is an essential component for enabling closer human-robot collaboration. The task of accurately predicting human motion is non-trivial. It is compounded by the variability of human motion, both at a skeletal level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Mohammad Samin Yasar , Tariq Iqbal

A proper semantic representation for encoding side information is key to the success of zero-shot learning. In this paper, we explore two alternative semantic representations especially for zero-shot human action recognition: textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Qian Wang , Ke Chen

We present a novel hierarchical model for human activity recognition. In contrast to approaches that successively recognize actions and activities, our approach jointly models actions and activities in a unified framework, and their labels…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-09 Ninghang Hu , Gwenn Englebienne , Zhongyu Lou , Ben Kröse

With advances in data-driven machine learning research, a wide variety of prediction models have been proposed to capture spatio-temporal features for the analysis of video streams. Recognising actions and detecting action transitions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Harshala Gammulle , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Simon Denman , Lachlan Tychsen-Smith , Lars Petersson , Clinton Fookes

We present a unified perspective on tackling various human-centric video tasks by learning human motion representations from large-scale and heterogeneous data resources. Specifically, we propose a pretraining stage in which a motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Zhaoyang Liu , Libin Liu , Wayne Wu , Yizhou Wang

Human interpretation of the world encompasses the use of symbols to categorize sensory inputs and compose them in a hierarchical manner. One of the long-term objectives of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence is to endow machines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Armand Comas , Sandesh Ghimire , Haolin Li , Mario Sznaier , Octavia Camps

We present a symbolic learning framework inspired by cognitive-like memory functionalities (i.e., storing, retrieving, consolidating and forgetting) to generate task representations to support high-level task planning and knowledge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Luca Buoncompagni , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

Diffusion-based video motion customization facilitates the acquisition of human motion representations from a few video samples, while achieving arbitrary subjects transfer through precise textual conditioning. Existing approaches often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shuai Tan , Biao Gong , Yujie Wei , Shiwei Zhang , Zhuoxin Liu , Ke Ma , Yan Wang , Kecheng Zheng , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Hengshuang Zhao

Motion is a fundamental cue for scene analysis and human activity understan- ding in videos. It can be encoded in trajectories for tracking objects and for action recognition, or in form of flow to address behaviour analysis in crowded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Eduardo M. Pereira , Jaime S. Cardoso , Ricardo Morla

Generalizing to long-horizon manipulation tasks in a zero-shot setting remains a central challenge in robotics. Current multimodal foundation based approaches, despite their capabilities, typically fail to decompose high-level commands into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ke Ye , Jiaming Zhou , Yuanfeng Qiu , Jiayi Liu , Shihui Zhou , Kun-Yu Lin , Junwei Liang

We introduce MotionScript, a novel framework for generating highly detailed, natural language descriptions of 3D human motions. Unlike existing motion datasets that rely on broad action labels or generic captions, MotionScript provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Payam Jome Yazdian , Rachel Lagasse , Hamid Mohammadi , Eric Liu , Li Cheng , Angelica Lim

We propose a method for generating video-realistic animations of real humans under user control. In contrast to conventional human character rendering, we do not require the availability of a production-quality photo-realistic 3D model of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Hyeongwoo Kim , Florian Bernard , Marc Habermann , Wenping Wang , Christian Theobalt

This paper presents a survey of human action recognition approaches based on visual data recorded from a single video camera. We propose an organizing framework which puts in evidence the evolution of the area, with techniques moving from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Ana Paula Brandão Lopes , Eduardo Alves do Valle , Jussara Marques de Almeida , Arnaldo Albuquerque de Araújo

In this paper, a novel human action recognition technique from video is presented. Any action of human is a combination of several micro action sequences performed by one or more body parts of the human. The proposed approach uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Satyabrata Maity , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Amlan Chakrabarti

Videos are more informative than images because they capture the dynamics of the scene. By representing motion in videos, we can capture dynamic activities. In this work, we introduce GPT-4 generated motion descriptions that capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Chinmaya Devaraj , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Representation of human actions as a sequence of human body movements or action attributes enables the development of models for human activity recognition and summarization. We present an extension of the low-rank representation (LRR)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-14 Tong Wu , Prudhvi Gurram , Raghuveer M. Rao , Waheed U. Bajwa

Humans have the natural ability to recognize actions even if the objects involved in the action or the background are changed. Humans can abstract away the action from the appearance of the objects which is referred to as compositionality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ramanathan Rajendiran , Debaditya Roy , Basura Fernando