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This paper presents a new framework for human action recognition from a 3D skeleton sequence. Previous studies do not fully utilize the temporal relationships between video segments in a human action. Some studies successfully used very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Thao Minh Le , Nakamasa Inoue , Koichi Shinoda

We propose a novel skeleton-based representation for 3D action recognition in videos using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (D-CNNs). Two key issues have been addressed: First, how to construct a robust representation that easily captures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Huy Hieu Pham , Louahdi Khoudour , Alain Crouzil , Pablo Zegers , Sergio A. Velastin

Cross-modal retrieval (CMR) has been extensively applied in various domains, such as multimedia search engines and recommendation systems. Most existing CMR methods focus on image-to-text retrieval, whereas audio-to-text retrieval, a less…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Kaiyi Luo , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Huaxiong Li , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Skeleton-based human action recognition has received widespread attention in recent years due to its diverse range of application scenarios. Due to the different sources of human skeletons, skeleton data naturally exhibit heterogeneity. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Hongsong Wang , Xiaoyan Ma , Jidong Kuang , Jie Gui

Contrastive learning has achieved great success in self-supervised visual representation learning, but existing approaches mostly ignored spatial information which is often crucial for visual representation. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Xinyue Huo , Lingxi Xie , Longhui Wei , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hao Li , Zijie Yang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

Self-supervised contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for skeleton-based action recognition by enforcing consistency in the embedding space. However, existing methods rely on binary contrastive objectives that overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yingjie Feng , Yi Wang , Jiaze Wang , Anfeng Liu , Zhuotao Tian

Prior works on action representation learning mainly focus on designing various architectures to extract the global representations for short video clips. In contrast, many practical applications such as video alignment have strong demand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Minghao Chen , Fangyun Wei , Chong Li , Deng Cai

Human action understanding serves as a foundational pillar in the field of intelligent motion perception. Skeletons serve as a modality- and device-agnostic representation for human modeling, and skeleton-based action understanding has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hongsong Wang , Wanjiang Weng , Junbo Wang , Fang Zhao , Guo-Sen Xie , Xin Geng , Liang Wang

Skeleton-based action recognition, which classifies human actions based on the coordinates of joints and their connectivity within skeleton data, is widely utilized in various scenarios. While Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jeonghyeok Do , Munchurl Kim

Semi-supervised action recognition aims to improve spatio-temporal reasoning ability with a few labeled data in conjunction with a large amount of unlabeled data. Albeit recent advancements, existing powerful methods are still prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yu Wang , Sanping Zhou , Kun Xia , Le Wang

As a pioneering work, PointContrast conducts unsupervised 3D representation learning via leveraging contrastive learning over raw RGB-D frames and proves its effectiveness on various downstream tasks. However, the trend of large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Xiaoyang Wu , Xin Wen , Xihui Liu , Hengshuang Zhao

This work considers supervised contrastive learning for semantic segmentation. We apply contrastive learning to enhance the discriminative power of the multi-scale features extracted by semantic segmentation networks. Our key methodological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Theodoros Pissas , Claudio S. Ravasio , Lyndon Da Cruz , Christos Bergeles

Skeleton-based human action recognition leverages sequences of human joint coordinates to identify actions performed in videos. Owing to the intrinsic spatiotemporal structure of skeleton data, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yusen Peng , Alper Yilmaz

3D skeleton-based action recognition (3D SAR) has gained significant attention within the computer vision community, owing to the inherent advantages offered by skeleton data. As a result, a plethora of impressive works, including those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Bin Ren , Mengyuan Liu , Runwei Ding , Hong Liu

Object counting has progressed from class-specific models, which count only known categories, to class-agnostic models that generalize to unseen categories. The next challenge is Referring Expression Counting (REC), where the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Kostas Triaridis , Panagiotis Kaliosis , E-Ro Nguyen , Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

For action recognition learning, 2D CNN-based methods are efficient but may yield redundant features due to applying the same 2D convolution kernel to each frame. Recent efforts attempt to capture motion information by establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Mingyu Wu , Boyuan Jiang , Donghao Luo , Junchi Yan , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Xiaokang Yang

Zero-shot skeleton action recognition is a non-trivial task that requires robust unseen generalization with prior knowledge from only seen classes and shared semantics. Existing methods typically build the skeleton-semantics interactions by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yang Chen , Jingcai Guo , Song Guo , Dacheng Tao

Recent contrastive based 3D action representation learning has made great progress. However, the strict positive/negative constraint is yet to be relaxed and the use of non-self positive is yet to be explored. In this paper, a Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Haoyuan Zhang , Yonghong Hou , Wenjing Zhang , Wanqing Li

It remains a challenge to efficiently extract spatialtemporal information from skeleton sequences for 3D human action recognition. Although most recent action recognition methods are based on Recurrent Neural Networks which present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Hong Liu , Juanhui Tu , Mengyuan Liu

Learning representations of stochastic processes is an emerging problem in machine learning with applications from meta-learning to physical object models to time series. Typical methods rely on exact reconstruction of observations, but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-01 Emile Mathieu , Adam Foster , Yee Whye Teh