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Action recognition is a critical task for social robots to meaningfully engage with their environment. 3D human skeleton-based action recognition is an attractive research area in recent years. Although, the existing approaches are good at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Hui Feng , Shanshan Wang , Shuzhi Sam Ge

Activity recognition is the ability to identify and recognize the action or goals of the agent. The agent can be any object or entity that performs action that has end goals. The agents can be a single agent performing the action or group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Ashwin Geet D'Sa , B. G. Prasad

This work strives for the classification and localization of human actions in videos, without the need for any labeled video training examples. Where existing work relies on transferring global attribute or object information from seen to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Pascal Mettes , William Thong , Cees G. M. Snoek

Action recognition and human pose estimation are closely related but both problems are generally handled as distinct tasks in the literature. In this work, we propose a multitask framework for jointly 2D and 3D pose estimation from still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Diogo C. Luvizon , David Picard , Hedi Tabia

Action recognition is a well-established area of research in computer vision. In this paper, we propose S3Aug, a video data augmenatation for action recognition. Unlike conventional video data augmentation methods that involve cutting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Taiki Sugiura , Toru Tamaki

Action recognition is a fundamental problem in computer vision with a lot of potential applications such as video surveillance, human computer interaction, and robot learning. Given pre-segmented videos, the task is to recognize actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Ahsan Iqbal , Alexander Richard , Hilde Kuehne , Juergen Gall

The scarcity of high quality actions video data is a bottleneck in the research and application of action recognition. Although significant effort has been made in this area, there still exist gaps in the range of available data types a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shuo Wang , Amiya Ranjan , Lawrence Jiang

Action recognition from videos, i.e., classifying a video into one of the pre-defined action types, has been a popular topic in the communities of artificial intelligence, multimedia, and signal processing. However, existing methods usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Xiaodong Chen , Xinchen Liu , Wu Liu , Kun Liu , Dong Wu , Yongdong Zhang , Tao Mei

Action recognition has long been a fundamental and intriguing problem in artificial intelligence. The task is challenging due to the high dimensionality nature of an action, as well as the subtle motion details to be considered. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yuheng Yang , Haipeng Chen , Zhenguang Liu , Yingda Lyu , Beibei Zhang , Shuang Wu , Zhibo Wang , Kui Ren

Early action recognition (action prediction) from limited preliminary observations plays a critical role for streaming vision systems that demand real-time inference, as video actions often possess elongated temporal spans which cause…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 He Zhao , Richard P. Wildes

We introduce a novel self-supervised learning approach to learn representations of videos that are responsive to changes in the motion dynamics. Our representations can be learned from data without human annotation and provide a substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Simon Jenni , Givi Meishvili , Paolo Favaro

Visual change detection, aiming at segmentation of video frames into foreground and background regions, is one of the elementary tasks in computer vision and video analytics. The applications of change detection include anomaly detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Murari Mandal , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Human activity recognition is typically addressed by detecting key concepts like global and local motion, features related to object classes present in the scene, as well as features related to the global context. The next open challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Fabien Baradel , Natalia Neverova , Christian Wolf , Julien Mille , Greg Mori

Video-based representations have gained prominence in planning and decision-making due to their ability to encode rich spatiotemporal dynamics and geometric relationships. These representations enable flexible and generalizable solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Po-Chen Ko , Jiayuan Mao , Yu-Hsiang Fu , Hsien-Jeng Yeh , Chu-Rong Chen , Wei-Chiu Ma , Yilun Du , Shao-Hua Sun

Video action detection requires dense spatio-temporal annotations, which are both challenging and expensive to obtain. However, real-world videos often vary in difficulty and may not require the same level of annotation. This paper analyzes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Aayush Rana , Akash Kumar , Vibhav Vineet , Yogesh S Rawat

Conventionally, spatiotemporal modeling network and its complexity are the two most concentrated research topics in video action recognition. Existing state-of-the-art methods have achieved excellent accuracy regardless of the complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Wenhao Wu , Dongliang He , Tianwei Lin , Fu Li , Chuang Gan , Errui Ding

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

Video foundation models achieve strong performance across many video understanding tasks, but typically require large-scale pre-training on massive video datasets, resulting in substantial data and compute costs. In contrast, modern image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Svetlana Orlova , Niccolò Cavagnero , Gijs Dubbelman

This paper studies the joint learning of action recognition and temporal localization in long, untrimmed videos. We employ a multi-task learning framework that performs the three highly related steps of action proposal, action recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Agents capable of reasoning and planning in the real world require the ability of predicting the consequences of their actions. While world models possess this capability, they most often require action labels, that can be complex to obtain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Quentin Garrido , Tushar Nagarajan , Basile Terver , Nicolas Ballas , Yann LeCun , Michael Rabbat