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How humans understand and recognize the actions of others is a complex neuroscientific problem that involves a combination of cognitive mechanisms and neural networks. Research has shown that humans have brain areas that recognize actions…

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Capturing the dependencies between joints is critical in skeleton-based action recognition task. Transformer shows great potential to model the correlation of important joints. However, the existing Transformer-based methods cannot capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Helei Qiu , Biao Hou , Bo Ren , Xiaohua Zhang

Graph convolutional networks have been widely used for skeleton-based action recognition due to their excellent modeling ability of non-Euclidean data. As the graph convolution is a local operation, it can only utilize the short-range joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zhan Chen , Sicheng Li , Bing Yang , Qinghan Li , Hong Liu

Deep learning techniques are being used in skeleton based action recognition tasks and outstanding performance has been reported. Compared with RNN based methods which tend to overemphasize temporal information, CNN-based approaches can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Zewei Ding , Pichao Wang , Philip O. Ogunbona , Wanqing Li

Human skeleton joints are popular for action analysis since they can be easily extracted from videos to discard background noises. However, current skeleton representations do not fully benefit from machine learning with CNNs. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Jian Liu , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

Skeleton-based action recognition methods are limited by the semantic extraction of spatio-temporal skeletal maps. However, current methods have difficulty in effectively combining features from both temporal and spatial graph dimensions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Shengqin Wang , Yongji Zhang , Minghao Zhao , Hong Qi , Kai Wang , Fenglin Wei , Yu Jiang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been widely used to model the high-order dynamic dependencies for skeleton-based action recognition. Most existing approaches do not explicitly embed the high-order spatio-temporal importance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Lipeng Ke , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Siwei Lyu

With the development of robotics, skeleton-based action recognition has become increasingly important, as human-robot interaction requires understanding the actions of humans and humanoid robots. Due to different sources of human skeletons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jidong Kuang , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui

Skeleton-based action recognition has achieved remarkable results in human action recognition with the development of graph convolutional networks (GCNs). However, the recent works tend to construct complex learning mechanisms with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Dongjingdin Liu , Pengpeng Chen , Miao Yao , Yijing Lu , Zijie Cai , Yuxin Tian

In skeleton-based action recognition, graph convolutional networks (GCNs), which model the human body skeletons as spatiotemporal graphs, have achieved remarkable performance. However, in existing GCN-based methods, the topology of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Lei Shi , Yifan Zhang , Jian Cheng , Hanqing Lu

Due to the compact and rich high-level representations offered, skeleton-based human action recognition has recently become a highly active research topic. Previous studies have demonstrated that investigating joint relationships in spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Ali Farajzadeh Bavil , Hamed Damirchi , Hamid D. Taghirad

Recent methods based on 3D skeleton data have achieved outstanding performance due to its conciseness, robustness, and view-independent representation. With the development of deep learning, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Long…

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Current state-of-the-art approaches to skeleton-based action recognition are mostly based on recurrent neural networks (RNN). In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural networks (CNN) based framework for both action…

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3D skeleton-based action recognition (3D SAR) has gained significant attention within the computer vision community, owing to the inherent advantages offered by skeleton data. As a result, a plethora of impressive works, including those…

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In recent years, graph convolutional networks (GCNs) play an increasingly critical role in skeleton-based human action recognition. However, most GCN-based methods still have two main limitations: 1) They only consider the motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Zhigang Tu , Jiaxu Zhang , Hongyan Li , Yujin Chen , Junsong Yuan

Pose-based action recognition has drawn considerable attention recently. Existing methods exploit the joint positions to extract the body-part features from the activation map of the convolutional networks to assist human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lei Shi , Yifan Zhang , Jian Cheng , Hanqing Lu

Recognition of human actions and associated interactions with objects and the environment is an important problem in computer vision due to its potential applications in a variety of domains. The most versatile methods can generalize to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Behnoosh Parsa , Athma Narayanan , Behzad Dariush

Recently, skeleton based action recognition gains more popularity due to cost-effective depth sensors coupled with real-time skeleton estimation algorithms. Traditional approaches based on handcrafted features are limited to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Hongsong Wang , Liang Wang

Combining skeleton structure with graph convolutional networks has achieved remarkable performance in human action recognition. Since current research focuses on designing basic graph for representing skeleton data, these embedding features…

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