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Skeleton-based action recognition is widely utilized in sensor systems including human-computer interaction and intelligent surveillance. Nevertheless, current sensor devices typically generate sparse skeleton data as discrete coordinates,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuhan Chen , Yicui Shi , Guofa Li , Liping Zhang , Jie Li , Jiaxin Gao , Wenbo Chu

With the prevalence of RGB-D cameras, multi-modal video data have become more available for human action recognition. One main challenge for this task lies in how to effectively leverage their complementary information. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Sijie Song , Jiaying Liu , Yanghao Li , Zongming Guo

Skeleton sequence representation learning has shown great advantages for action recognition due to its promising ability to model human joints and topology. However, the current methods usually require sufficient labeled data for training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Hong Yan , Yang Liu , Yushen Wei , Zhen Li , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Chao Li , Qiaoyong Zhong , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

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

In skeleton-based action recognition, a key challenge is distinguishing between actions with similar trajectories of joints due to the lack of image-level details in skeletal representations. Recognizing that the differentiation of similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Hongda Liu , Yunfan Liu , Min Ren , Hao Wang , Yunlong Wang , Zhenan Sun

Skeleton data is of low dimension. However, there is a trend of using very deep and complicated feedforward neural networks to model the skeleton sequence without considering the complexity in recent year. In this paper, a simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Pengfei Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Junliang Xing , Jianru Xue , Nanning Zheng

One-shot action recognition allows the recognition of human-performed actions with only a single training example. This can influence human-robot-interaction positively by enabling the robot to react to previously unseen behaviour. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Raphael Memmesheimer , Simon Häring , Nick Theisen , Dietrich Paulus

We introduce Skeleton-Cache, the first training-free test-time adaptation framework for skeleton-based zero-shot action recognition (SZAR), aimed at improving model generalization to unseen actions during inference. Skeleton-Cache…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jingmin Zhu , Anqi Zhu , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu , Mohammed Bennamoun , Qiuhong Ke

In the field of skeleton-based action recognition, current top-performing graph convolutional networks (GCNs) exploit intra-sequence context to construct adaptive graphs for feature aggregation. However, we argue that such context is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Xiaohu Huang , Hao Zhou , Jian Wang , Haocheng Feng , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu , Bin Feng

One essential problem in skeleton-based action recognition is how to extract discriminative features over all skeleton joints. However, the complexity of the State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) models of this task tends to be exceedingly sophisticated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Yi-Fan Song , Zhang Zhang , Caifeng Shan , Liang Wang

Skeleton-based Human Activity Recognition has achieved great interest in recent years as skeleton data has demonstrated being robust to illumination changes, body scales, dynamic camera views, and complex background. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Chiara Plizzari , Marco Cannici , Matteo Matteucci

Understanding human actions is a crucial problem for service robots. However, the general trend in Action Recognition is developing and testing these systems on structured datasets. That's why this work presents a practical Skeleton-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Cagatay Odabasi , Jewel Jose

For multimodal skeleton-based action recognition, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are effective models. Still, their reliance on floating-point computations leads to high energy consumption, limiting their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Naichuan Zheng , Yuchen Du , Hailun Xia , Zeyu Liang

Existing 3D skeleton-based action recognition approaches reach impressive performance by encoding handcrafted action features to image format and decoding by CNNs. However, such methods are limited in two ways: a) the handcrafted action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Shannan Guan , Haiyan Lu , Linchao Zhu , Gengfa Fang

Skeletonization extracts thin representations from images that compactly encode their geometry and topology. These representations have become an important topological prior for preserving connectivity in curvilinear structures, aiding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Luis D. Reyes Vargas , Martin J. Menten , Johannes C. Paetzold , Nassir Navab , Mohammad Farid Azampour

Skeleton-based action recognition has recently made significant progress. However, data imbalance is still a great challenge in real-world scenarios. The performance of current action recognition algorithms declines sharply when training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Hongda Liu , Yunlong Wang , Min Ren , Junxing Hu , Zhengquan Luo , Guangqi Hou , Zhenan Sun

Recently, there has been a remarkable increase in the interest towards skeleton-based action recognition within the research community, owing to its various advantageous features, including computational efficiency, representative features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ayman Ali , Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong , Pu Wang , Mohsen Dorodchi

Self-supervised learning (SSL), which aims to learn meaningful prior representations from unlabeled data, has been proven effective for skeleton-based action understanding. Different from the image domain, skeleton data possesses sparser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jiahang Zhang , Lilang Lin , Shuai Yang , Jiaying Liu

In this work, we focus on the efficiency and scalability of pairwise constraint-based active clustering, crucial for processing large-scale data in applications such as data mining, knowledge annotation, and AI model pre-training. Our goals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Wen-Bo Xie , Xun Fu , Bin Chen , Yan-Li Lee , Tao Deng , Tian Zou , Xin Wang , Zhen Liu , Jaideep Srivastavad