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Skeleton-based human action recognition has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, most existing GCN-based methods rely on short-range motion topologies, which not only struggle to capture long-range joint dependencies and…

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Human actions in video sequences are characterized by the complex interplay between spatial features and their temporal dynamics. In this paper, we propose novel tensor representations for compactly capturing such higher-order relationships…

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Skeleton-based action recognition receives the attention of many researchers as it is robust to viewpoint and illumination changes, and its processing is much more efficient than the processing of video frames. With the emergence of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ozge Oztimur Karadag

Effectively extracting motions from video is a critical and long-standing problem for action recognition. This problem is very challenging because motions (i) do not have an explicit form, (ii) have various concepts such as displacement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Lei Wang , Xiuyuan Yuan , Tom Gedeon , Liang Zheng

The data-driven approach that learns an optimal representation of vision features like skeleton frames or RGB videos is currently a dominant paradigm for activity recognition. While great improvements have been achieved from existing single…

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Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have proven to be highly effective for skeleton-based action recognition, primarily due to their ability to leverage graph topology for feature aggregation, a key factor in extracting meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Haiqing Ren , Zhongkai Luo , Heng Fan , Xiaohui Yuan , Guanchen Wang , Libo Zhang

Despite the notable success of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) in skeleton-based action recognition, their performance often depends on large volumes of labeled data, which are frequently scarce in practical settings. To address this…

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Skeleton data carries valuable motion information and is widely explored in human action recognition. However, not only the motion information but also the interaction with the environment provides discriminative cues to recognize the…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) have recently shown promising performance in many computer vision tasks, especially image-based recognition. How to effectively apply ConvNets to sequence-based data is still an open problem. This…

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Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been very successful in modeling non-Euclidean data structures, like sequences of body skeletons forming actions modeled as spatio-temporal graphs. Most GCN-based action recognition methods use deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Negar Heidari , Alexandros Iosifidis

There has been a dramatic increase in the volume of videos and their related content uploaded to the internet. Accordingly, the need for efficient algorithms to analyse this vast amount of data has attracted significant research interest.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Motasem Alsawadi , Miguel Rio

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) aim at extending deep learning to arbitrary irregular domains, namely graphs. Their success is highly dependent on how the topology of input graphs is defined and most of the existing GCN architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hichem Sahbi

Appearance features have been widely used in video anomaly detection even though they contain complex entangled factors. We propose a new method to model the normal patterns of human movements in surveillance video for anomaly detection…

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Dynamic hand gesture recognition has attracted increasing interests because of its importance for human computer interaction. In this paper, we propose a new motion feature augmented recurrent neural network for skeleton-based dynamic hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Xinghao Chen , Hengkai Guo , Guijin Wang , Li Zhang

Spatial-temporal graph convolutional networks (ST-GCNs) showcase impressive performance in skeleton-based human action recognition (HAR). However, despite the development of numerous models, their recognition performance does not differ…

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Human gesture recognition has assumed a capital role in industrial applications, such as Human-Machine Interaction. We propose an approach for segmentation and classification of dynamic gestures based on a set of handcrafted features, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 André Brás , Miguel Simão , Pedro Neto

Skeleton-based human action recognition is a powerful approach for understanding human behaviour from pose data, but collecting large-scale, diverse, and well-annotated 3D skeleton datasets is both expensive and labor-intensive. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xu Dong , Wanqing Li , Anthony Adeyemi-Ejeye , Andrew Gilbert

Deep learning is ubiquitous across many areas areas of computer vision. It often requires large scale datasets for training before being fine-tuned on small-to-medium scale problems. Activity, or, in other words, action recognition, is one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Yusuf Tas , Piotr Koniusz

We present SkeleTR, a new framework for skeleton-based action recognition. In contrast to prior work, which focuses mainly on controlled environments, we target more general scenarios that typically involve a variable number of people and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Haodong Duan , Mingze Xu , Bing Shuai , Davide Modolo , Zhuowen Tu , Joseph Tighe , Alessandro Bergamo

Skeleton-based action recognition has gained considerable traction thanks to its utilization of succinct and robust skeletal representations. Nonetheless, current methodologies often lean towards utilizing a solitary backbone to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Jinfu Liu , Baiqiao Yin , Jiaying Lin , Jiajun Wen , Yue Li , Mengyuan Liu