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Human action recognition has been widely used in many fields of life, and many human action datasets have been published at the same time. However, most of the multi-modal databases have some shortcomings in the layout and number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Xin Chao , Zhenjie Hou , Yujian Mo

We address the task of zero-shot video classification for extremely fine-grained actions (e.g., Windmill Dunk in basketball), where no video examples or temporal annotations are available for unseen classes. While image-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Amir Aghdam , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

The number of categories for action recognition is growing rapidly and it has become increasingly hard to label sufficient training data for learning conventional models for all categories. Instead of collecting ever more data and labelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Xun Xu , Timothy Hospedales , Shaogang Gong

Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition aims to recognize actions of unseen categories after training on data of seen categories. The key is to build the connection between visual and semantic space from seen to unseen classes. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yujie Zhou , Wenwen Qiang , Anyi Rao , Ning Lin , Bing Su , Jiaqi Wang

Few-shot video action recognition is an effective approach to recognizing new categories with only a few labeled examples, thereby reducing the challenges associated with collecting and annotating large-scale video datasets. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Sarinda Samarasinghe , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Navid Kardan , Mubarak Shah

Zero-shot action recognition is challenging due to the semantic gap between seen and unseen classes. We present a novel framework that enhances CLIP with disentangled embeddings and semantic-guided interaction. A Motion Separation Module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yiming Wang , Frederick W. B. Li , Jingyun Wang

Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition (ZS-SAR) is fundamentally constrained by prevailing approaches that rely on aligning skeleton features with static, class-level semantics. This coarse-grained alignment fails to bridge the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jingmin Zhu , Anqi Zhu , James Bailey , Jun Liu , Hossein Rahmani , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Qiuhong Ke

Zero-shot action recognition (ZSAR) requires collaborative multi-modal spatiotemporal understanding. However, finetuning CLIP directly for ZSAR yields suboptimal performance, given its inherent constraints in capturing essential temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yating Yu , Congqi Cao , Yueran Zhang , Qinyi Lv , Lingtong Min , Yanning Zhang

Zero-Shot Action Recognition has attracted attention in the last years and many approaches have been proposed for recognition of objects, events and actions in images and videos. There is a demand for methods that can classify instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Valter Estevam , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

Zero-shot classification is a promising paradigm to solve an applicable problem when the training classes and test classes are disjoint. Achieving this usually needs experts to externalize their domain knowledge by manually specifying a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Shichao Jia , Zeyu Li , Nuo Chen , Jiawan Zhang

The number of categories for action recognition is growing rapidly. It is thus becoming increasingly hard to collect sufficient training data to learn conventional models for each category. This issue may be ameliorated by the increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Xun Xu , Timothy Hospedales , Shaogang Gong

Multimodal human action recognition (HAR) leverages complementary sensors for activity classification. Beyond recognition, recent advances in large language models (LLMs) enable detailed descriptions and causal reasoning, motivating new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siyang Jiang , Mu Yuan , Xiang Ji , Bufang Yang , Zeyu Liu , Lilin Xu , Yang Li , Yuting He , Liran Dong , Wenrui Lu , Zhenyu Yan , Xiaofan Jiang , Wei Gao , Hongkai Chen , Guoliang Xing

Action in video usually involves the interaction of human with objects. Action labels are typically composed of various combinations of verbs and nouns, but we may not have training data for all possible combinations. In this paper, we aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zhekun Luo , Shalini Ghosh , Devin Guillory , Keizo Kato , Trevor Darrell , Huijuan Xu

Human Action Recognition (HAR) is a very crucial task in computer vision. It helps to carry out a series of downstream tasks, like understanding human behaviors. Due to the complexity of human behaviors, many highly valuable behaviors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hongwu Li , Zhenliang Zhang , Wei Wang

Fine-grained video action recognition can be conceptualized as a video-text matching problem. Previous approaches often rely on global video semantics to consolidate video embeddings, which can lead to misalignment in video-text pairs due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Enqi Liu , Liyuan Pan , Yan Yang , Yiran Zhong , Zhijing Wu , Xinxiao Wu , Liu Liu

Zero-Shot Action Recognition (ZSAR) aims to recognize video actions that have never been seen during training. Most existing methods assume a shared semantic space between seen and unseen actions and intend to directly learn a mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Zhiyi Gao , Yonghong Hou , Wanqing Li , Zihui Guo , Bin Yu

There are many realistic applications of activity recognition where the set of potential activity descriptions is combinatorially large. This makes end-to-end supervised training of a recognition system impractical as no training set is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Tae Soo Kim , Jonathan D. Jones , Michael Peven , Zihao Xiao , Jin Bai , Yi Zhang , Weichao Qiu , Alan Yuille , Gregory D. Hager

We present an audio-visual multimodal approach for the task of zeroshot learning (ZSL) for classification and retrieval of videos. ZSL has been studied extensively in the recent past but has primarily been limited to visual modality and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Kranti Kumar Parida , Neeraj Matiyali , Tanaya Guha , Gaurav Sharma

Videos capture events that typically contain multiple sequential, and simultaneous, actions even in the span of only a few seconds. However, most large-scale datasets built to train models for action recognition in video only provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mathew Monfort , Bowen Pan , Kandan Ramakrishnan , Alex Andonian , Barry A McNamara , Alex Lascelles , Quanfu Fan , Dan Gutfreund , Rogerio Feris , Aude Oliva

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) promises to scale visual recognition by bypassing the conventional model training requirement of annotated examples for every category. This is achieved by establishing a mapping connecting low-level features and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Xun Xu , Timothy M. Hospedales , Shaogang Gong