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In this work, we propose a motion embedding strategy known as motion codes, which is a vectorized representation of motions based on a manipulation's salient mechanical attributes. These motion codes provide a robust motion representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Maxat Alibayev , David Paulius , Yu Sun

We present a generative model that learns to synthesize human motion from limited training sequences. Our framework provides conditional generation and blending across multiple temporal resolutions. The model adeptly captures human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 David Eduardo Moreno-Villamarín , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

While the use of technology to provide accurate and objective measurements of human movement performance is presently an area of great interest, efforts to quantify the performance of movement are hampered by the lack of a principled model…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-11 Stuart Hagler

Zero-shot action recognition, which recognizes actions in videos without having received any training examples, is gaining wide attention considering it can save labor costs and training time. Nevertheless, the performance of zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Nan Wu , Hiroshi Kera , Kazuhiko Kawamoto

Human action analysis and understanding in videos is an important and challenging task. Although substantial progress has been made in past years, the explainability of existing methods is still limited. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , Peng Zhang , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

Effective generalization in robotic manipulation requires representations that capture invariant patterns of interaction across environments and tasks. We present a self-supervised framework for learning hierarchical manipulation concepts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ruizhe Liu , Pei Zhou , Qian Luo , Li Sun , Jun Cen , Yibing Song , Yanchao Yang

This work aims to present novel description methods for human action recognition. Generally, a video sequence can be represented as a collection of spatial temporal words by detecting space-time interest points and describing the unique…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Ruoyun Gao , Michael S. Lew , Ling Shao

Learning structured task representations from human demonstrations is essential for understanding long-horizon manipulation behaviors, particularly in bimanual settings where action ordering, object involvement, and interaction geometry can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Franziska Herbert , Vignesh Prasad , Han Liu , Dorothea Koert , Georgia Chalvatzaki

We present HuMoCon, a novel motion-video understanding framework designed for advanced human behavior analysis. The core of our method is a human motion concept discovery framework that efficiently trains multi-modal encoders to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Qihang Fang , Chengcheng Tang , Bugra Tekin , Shugao Ma , Yanchao Yang

Manipulating objects with robotic hands is a complicated task. Not only the fingers of the hand, but also the pose of the robot's end effector need to be coordinated. Using human demonstrations of movements is an intuitive and…

We propose novel motion representations for animating articulated objects consisting of distinct parts. In a completely unsupervised manner, our method identifies object parts, tracks them in a driving video, and infers their motions by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Aliaksandr Siarohin , Oliver J. Woodford , Jian Ren , Menglei Chai , Sergey Tulyakov

Motion is an important signal for agents in dynamic environments, but learning to represent motion from unlabeled video is a difficult and underconstrained problem. We propose a model of motion based on elementary group properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Andrew Jaegle , Stephen Phillips , Daphne Ippolito , Kostas Daniilidis

The ability to synthesize long-term human motion sequences in real-world scenes can facilitate numerous applications. Previous approaches for scene-aware motion synthesis are constrained by pre-defined target objects or positions and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jingbo Wang , Yu Rong , Jingyuan Liu , Sijie Yan , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

This paper presents a novel yet intuitive approach to unsupervised feature learning. Inspired by the human visual system, we explore whether low-level motion-based grouping cues can be used to learn an effective visual representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Deepak Pathak , Ross Girshick , Piotr Dollár , Trevor Darrell , Bharath Hariharan

This work make the first attempt to generate articulated human motion sequence from a single image. On the one hand, we utilize paired inputs including human skeleton information as motion embedding and a single human image as appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Yichao Yan , Jingwei Xu , Bingbing Ni , Xiaokang Yang

Human movement prediction is difficult as humans naturally exhibit complex behaviors that can change drastically from one environment to the next. In order to alleviate this issue, we propose a prediction framework that decouples short-term…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Philipp Kratzer , Marc Toussaint , Jim Mainprice

Human motion synthesis in 3D scenes relies heavily on scene comprehension, while current methods focus mainly on scene structure but ignore the semantic understanding. In this paper, we propose a human motion synthesis framework that take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Gong Jingyu , Tong Kunkun , Chen Zhuoran , Yuan Chuanhan , Chen Mingang , Zhang Zhizhong , Tan Xin , Xie Yuan

Complex scenes present significant challenges for predicting human behaviour due to the abundance of interaction information, such as human-human and humanenvironment interactions. These factors complicate the analysis and understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Caiyi Sun , Yujing Sun , Xiao Han , Zemin Yang , Jiawei Liu , Xinge Zhu , Siu Ming Yiu , Yuexin Ma

Vision based human motion recognition has fascinated many researchers due to its critical challenges and a variety of applications. The applications range from simple gesture recognition to complicated behaviour understanding in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Geetanjali Vinayak Kale , Varsha Hemant Patil

From an image of a person in action, we can easily guess the 3D motion of the person in the immediate past and future. This is because we have a mental model of 3D human dynamics that we have acquired from observing visual sequences of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Angjoo Kanazawa , Jason Y. Zhang , Panna Felsen , Jitendra Malik