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Long-term Action Quality Assessment (AQA) evaluates the execution of activities in videos. However, the length presents challenges in fine-grained interpretability, with current AQA methods typically producing a single score by averaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Xu Dong , Xinran Liu , Wanqing Li , Anthony Adeyemi-Ejeye , Andrew Gilbert

Foundation models (FMs) are large neural networks trained on broad datasets, excelling in downstream tasks with minimal fine-tuning. Human activity recognition in video has advanced with FMs, driven by competition among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Thinesh Thiyakesan Ponbagavathi , Kunyu Peng , Alina Roitberg

Action Quality Assessment (AQA) quantifies human actions in videos, supporting applications in sports scoring, rehabilitation, and skill evaluation. A major challenge lies in the non-stationary nature of quality distributions in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Kanglei Zhou , Qingyi Pan , Xingxing Zhang , Hubert P. H. Shum , Frederick W. B. Li , Xiaohui Liang , Liyuan Wang

Action quality assessment (AQA) is an active research problem in video-based applications that is a challenging task due to the score variance per frame. Existing methods address this problem via convolutional-based approaches but suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Abhay Iyer , Mohammad Alali , Hemanth Bodala , Sunit Vaidya

Videos are unique in their integration of temporal elements, including camera, scene, action, and attribute, along with their dynamic relationships over time. However, existing benchmarks for video understanding often treat these properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Fanheng Kong , Jingyuan Zhang , Hongzhi Zhang , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Linhao Yu , Xingguang Ji , Yu Tian , Victoria W. , Fuzheng Zhang

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

Understanding human actions in visual data is tied to advances in complementary research areas including object recognition, human dynamics, domain adaptation and semantic segmentation. Over the last decade, human action analysis evolved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Samitha Herath , Mehrtash Harandi , Fatih Porikli

Temporal action localization (TAL) is an important and challenging problem in video understanding. However, most existing TAL benchmarks are built upon the coarse granularity of action classes, which exhibits two major limitations in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yi Liu , Limin Wang , Yali Wang , Xiao Ma , Yu Qiao

We propose a method for human action recognition, one that can localize the spatiotemporal regions that `define' the actions. This is a challenging task due to the subtlety of human actions in video and the co-occurrence of contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yang Wang , Vinh Tran , Gedas Bertasius , Lorenzo Torresani , Minh Hoai

Long-term Action Quality Assessment (AQA) aims to evaluate the quantitative performance of actions in long videos. However, existing methods face challenges due to domain shifts between the pre-trained large-scale action recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Kanglei Zhou , Hubert P. H. Shum , Frederick W. B. Li , Xingxing Zhang , Xiaohui Liang

Fine-grained temporal action parsing is important in many applications, such as daily activity understanding, human motion analysis, surgical robotics and others requiring subtle and precise operations in a long-term period. In this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yan Zhang , Siyu Tang , Krikamol Muandet , Christian Jarvers , Heiko Neumann

Joint segmentation and classification of fine-grained actions is important for applications of human-robot interaction, video surveillance, and human skill evaluation. However, despite substantial recent progress in large-scale action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Colin Lea , Austin Reiter , Rene Vidal , Gregory D. Hager

Current methods for action recognition primarily rely on deep convolutional networks to derive feature embeddings of visual and motion features. While these methods have demonstrated remarkable performance on standard benchmarks, we are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Dian Shao , Yue Zhao , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

Long-term action quality assessment (AQA) focuses on evaluating the quality of human activities in videos lasting up to several minutes. This task plays an important role in the automated evaluation of artistic sports such as rhythmic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xin Wang , Peng-Jie Li , Yuan-Yuan Shen

Realistic videos of human actions exhibit rich spatiotemporal structures at multiple levels of granularity: an action can always be decomposed into multiple finer-grained elements in both space and time. To capture this intuition, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Tian Lan , Yuke Zhu , Amir Roshan Zamir , Silvio Savarese

We target at the task of weakly-supervised action localization (WSAL), where only video-level action labels are available during model training. Despite the recent progress, existing methods mainly embrace a localization-by-classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Junyu Gao , Mengyuan Chen , Changsheng Xu

Fine-grained action recognition is attracting increasing attention due to the emerging demand of specific action understanding in real-world applications, whereas the data of rare fine-grained categories is very limited. Therefore, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Jiahao Wang , Yunhong Wang , Sheng Liu , Annan Li

Temporal alignment of fine-grained human actions in videos is important for numerous applications in computer vision, robotics, and mixed reality. State-of-the-art methods directly learn image-based embedding space by leveraging powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Taein Kwon , Bugra Tekin , Siyu Tang , Marc Pollefeys

The goal of fine-grained action recognition is to successfully discriminate between action categories with subtle differences. To tackle this, we derive inspiration from the human visual system which contains specialized regions in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Tianjiao Li , Lin Geng Foo , Qiuhong Ke , Hossein Rahmani , Anran Wang , Jinghua Wang , Jun Liu

Action Quality Assessment (AQA) predicts fine-grained execution scores from action videos and is widely applied in sports, rehabilitation, and skill evaluation. Long-term AQA, as in figure skating or rhythmic gymnastics, is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ruisheng Han , Kanglei Zhou , Shuang Chen , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Hubert P. H. Shum