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The dynamics of human skeletons have significant information for the task of action recognition. The similarity between trajectories of corresponding joints is an indicating feature of the same action, while this similarity may subject to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Qi Li , Hanlin Mo , Jinghan Zhao , Hongxiang Hao , Hua Li

In recent years, self-supervised representation learning for skeleton-based action recognition has advanced with the development of contrastive learning methods. However, most of contrastive paradigms are inherently discriminative and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Dang Dinh Nguyen , Decky Aspandi Latif , Titus Zaharia

Pose tracking is an important problem that requires identifying unique human pose-instances and matching them temporally across different frames of a video. However, existing pose tracking methods are unable to accurately model temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Michael Snower , Asim Kadav , Farley Lai , Hans Peter Graf

A skeleton representation of the human body has been proven to be effective for this task. The skeletons are presented in graphs form-like. However, the topology of a graph is not structured like Euclidean-based data. Therefore, a new set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Motasem S. Alsawadi , Miguel Rio

Skeleton-based human action recognition has recently drawn increasing attentions with the availability of large-scale skeleton datasets. The most crucial factors for this task lie in two aspects: the intra-frame representation for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Chao Li , Qiaoyong Zhong , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

Multimodal human action understanding is a significant problem in computer vision, with the central challenge being the effective utilization of the complementarity among diverse modalities while maintaining model efficiency. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hongsong Wang , Heng Fei , Bingxuan Dai , Jie Gui

For pursuing accurate skeleton-based action recognition, most prior methods use the strategy of combining Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs) with attention-based methods in a serial way. However, they regard the human skeleton as a complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Chen Pang , Xuequan Lu , Lei Lyu

Human actions comprise of joint motion of articulated body parts or `gestures'. Human skeleton is intuitively represented as a sparse graph with joints as nodes and natural connections between them as edges. Graph convolutional networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Kalpit Thakkar , P J Narayanan

Humans have impressive generalization capabilities when it comes to manipulating objects and tools in completely novel environments. These capabilities are, at least partially, a result of humans having internal models of their bodies and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Sarah Bechtle , Neha Das , Franziska Meier

Human action recognition plays an important role when developing intelligent interactions between humans and machines. While there is a lot of active research on improving the machine learning algorithms for skeleton-based action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Daniel Bermuth , Alexander Poeppel , Wolfgang Reif

The typical bottom-up human pose estimation framework includes two stages, keypoint detection and grouping. Most existing works focus on developing grouping algorithms, e.g., associative embedding, and pixel-wise keypoint regression that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ke Sun , Zigang Geng , Depu Meng , Bin Xiao , Dong Liu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Jingdong Wang

Skeleton-based action recognition receives increasing attention because the skeleton representations reduce the amount of training data by eliminating visual information irrelevant to actions. To further improve the sample efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Anqi Zhu , Qiuhong Ke , Mingming Gong , James Bailey

Multimodal-based action recognition methods have achieved high success using pose and RGB modality. However, skeletons sequences lack appearance depiction and RGB images suffer irrelevant noise due to modality limitations. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Jinfu Liu , Runwei Ding , Yuhang Wen , Nan Dai , Fanyang Meng , Shen Zhao , Mengyuan Liu

Incremental learning is a complex process due to potential catastrophic forgetting of old tasks when learning new ones. This is mainly due to transient features that do not fit from task to task. In this paper, we focus on complex emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Thibault Geoffroy , Gauthier Gerspacher , Lionel Prevost

Detecting human-object interactions is essential for comprehensive understanding of visual scenes. In particular, spatial connections between humans and objects are important cues for reasoning interactions. To this end, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Manli Zhu , Edmond S. L. Ho , Hubert P. H. Shum

Physical rehabilitation exercises suggested by healthcare professionals can help recovery from various musculoskeletal disorders and prevent re-injury. However, patients' engagement tends to decrease over time without direct supervision,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Aleksa Marusic , Sao Mai Nguyen , Adriana Tapus

We show that off-the-shelf text-based Transformers, with no additional training, can perform few-shot in-context visual imitation learning, mapping visual observations to action sequences that emulate the demonstrator's behaviour. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Norman Di Palo , Edward Johns

Video-based gait analysis has become a promising approach for assessing motor impairment in children with cerebral palsy (CP). However, existing methods usually rely on either pose sequences or handcrafted gait features alone, making it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Kaiyuan Yang , Xupeng Chen , Jiangpeng He

In this work, we study self-supervised representation learning for 3D skeleton-based action recognition. We extend Bootstrap Your Own Latent (BYOL) for representation learning on skeleton sequence data and propose a new data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Olivier Moliner , Sangxia Huang , Kalle Åström

Human pose estimation focuses on predicting body keypoints to analyze human motion. Currently, most pose estimation tasks rely on conventional RGB cameras. In contrast, event cameras provide high temporal resolution and low latency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haoxian Zhou , Chuanzhi Xu , Langyi Chen , Pengfei Ye , Haodong Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Qiang Qu