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Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition aims to classify unseen skeleton-based human actions without prior exposure to such categories during training. This task is extremely challenging due to the difficulty in generalizing from known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kai Zhou , Shuhai Zhang , Zeng You , Jinwu Hu , Mingkui Tan , Fei Liu

We present an approach for weakly supervised learning of human actions. Given a set of videos and an ordered list of the occurring actions, the goal is to infer start and end frames of the related action classes within the video and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Alexander Richard , Hilde Kuehne , Juergen Gall

Human behavior understanding with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is of great significance for a wide range of applications, which simultaneously brings an urgent demand of large, challenging, and comprehensive benchmarks for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Tianjiao Li , Jun Liu , Wei Zhang , Yun Ni , Wenqian Wang , Zhiheng Li

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to classify a test instance from an unseen category based on the training instances from seen categories, in which the gap between seen categories and unseen categories is generally bridged via visual-semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Li Niu , Jianfei Cai , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Human body actions are an important form of non-verbal communication in social interactions. This paper specifically focuses on a subset of body actions known as micro-actions, which are subtle, low-intensity body movements with promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Kun Li , Pengyu Liu , Dan Guo , Fei Wang , Zhiliang Wu , Hehe Fan , Meng Wang

Action recognition has received increasing attention from the computer vision and machine learning communities in the last decade. To enable the study of this problem, there exist a vast number of action datasets, which are recorded under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Wenhui Li , Yongkang Wong , An-An Liu , Yang Li , Yu-Ting Su , Mohan Kankanhalli

The increasing variety and quantity of tagged multimedia content on a variety of online platforms offer a unique opportunity to advance the field of human action recognition. In this study, we utilize 283,582 unique, unlabeled TikTok video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yang Qian , Yinan Sun , Ali Kargarandehkordi , Parnian Azizian , Onur Cezmi Mutlu , Saimourya Surabhi , Pingyi Chen , Zain Jabbar , Dennis Paul Wall , Peter Washington

In this paper, we study multi-label atomic activity recognition. Despite the notable progress in action recognition, it is still challenging to recognize atomic activities due to a deficiency in a holistic understanding of both multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Chi-Hsi Kung , Shu-Wei Lu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Yi-Ting Chen

Skeleton-based zero-shot action recognition aims to recognize unknown human actions based on the learned priors of the known skeleton-based actions and a semantic descriptor space shared by both known and unknown categories. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yang Chen , Jingcai Guo , Tian He , Ling Wang

Large-scale pre-trained models have achieved remarkable success in language and image tasks, leading an increasing number of studies to explore the application of pre-trained image models, such as CLIP, in the domain of few-shot action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Congqi Cao , Peiheng Han , Yueran zhang , Yating Yu , Qinyi Lv , Lingtong Min , Yanning zhang

We introduce a new task called Referring Atomic Video Action Recognition (RAVAR), aimed at identifying atomic actions of a particular person based on a textual description and the video data of this person. This task differs from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Kunyu Peng , Jia Fu , Kailun Yang , Di Wen , Yufan Chen , Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Jiaming Zhang , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Alina Roitberg

Action recognition is a fundamental capability for humanoid robots to interact and cooperate with humans. This application requires the action recognition system to be designed so that new actions can be easily added, while unknown actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Stefano Berti , Andrea Rosasco , Michele Colledanchise , Lorenzo Natale

Current state-of-the-art methods for skeleton-based action recognition are supervised and rely on labels. The reliance is limiting the performance due to the challenges involved in annotation and mislabeled data. Unsupervised methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Jingyuan Li , Eli Shlizerman

We present MetaUVFS as the first Unsupervised Meta-learning algorithm for Video Few-Shot action recognition. MetaUVFS leverages over 550K unlabeled videos to train a two-stream 2D and 3D CNN architecture via contrastive learning to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jay Patravali , Gaurav Mittal , Ye Yu , Fuxin Li , Mei Chen

We present an approach for weakly supervised learning of human actions from video transcriptions. Our system is based on the idea that, given a sequence of input data and a transcript, i.e. a list of the order the actions occur in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Hilde Kuehne , Alexander Richard , Juergen Gall

Recognizing human activities in videos is challenging due to the spatio-temporal complexity and context-dependence of human interactions. Prior studies often rely on single input modalities, such as RGB or skeletal data, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Hung Tran , Truyen Tran

On public benchmarks, current action recognition techniques have achieved great success. However, when used in real-world applications, e.g. sport analysis, which requires the capability of parsing an activity into phases and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Dian Shao , Yue Zhao , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

Future human action forecasting from partial observations of activities is an important problem in many practical applications such as assistive robotics, video surveillance and security. We present a method to forecast actions for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Yan Bin Ng , Basura Fernando

Summarizing video content is an important task in many applications. This task can be defined as the computation of the ordered list of actions present in a video. Such a list could be extracted using action detection algorithms. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Guillaume Vaudaux-Ruth , Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Catherine Achard

In this paper, we investigate large-scale zero-shot activity recognition by modeling the visual and linguistic attributes of action verbs. For example, the verb "salute" has several properties, such as being a light movement, a social act,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Rowan Zellers , Yejin Choi