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Action recognition via 3D skeleton data is an emerging important topic in these years. Most existing methods either extract hand-crafted descriptors or learn action representations by supervised learning paradigms that require massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Haocong Rao , Shihao Xu , Xiping Hu , Jun Cheng , Bin Hu

Skeleton-based human activity recognition has achieved strong empirical performance, yet most existing models remain black boxes and difficult to interpret. In this work, we introduce a neurosymbolic formulation of skeleton-based HAR that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Talha Ilyas , Deval Mehta , Zongyuan Ge

We propose a novel system for unsupervised skeleton-based action recognition. Given inputs of body keypoints sequences obtained during various movements, our system associates the sequences with actions. Our system is based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Kun Su , Xiulong Liu , Eli Shlizerman

Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition (ZS-SAR) is fundamentally constrained by prevailing approaches that rely on aligning skeleton features with static, class-level semantics. This coarse-grained alignment fails to bridge the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jingmin Zhu , Anqi Zhu , James Bailey , Jun Liu , Hossein Rahmani , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Qiuhong Ke

Skeleton-based multi-entity action recognition is a challenging task aiming to identify interactive actions or group activities involving multiple diverse entities. Existing models for individuals often fall short in this task due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yuhang Wen , Mengyuan Liu , Songtao Wu , Beichen Ding

Skeleton-based action recognition has recently attracted a lot of attention. Researchers are coming up with new approaches for extracting spatio-temporal relations and making considerable progress on large-scale skeleton-based datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Sangwoo Cho , Muhammad Hasan Maqbool , Fei Liu , Hassan Foroosh

Detecting human actions is a crucial task for autonomous robots and vehicles, often requiring the integration of various data modalities for improved accuracy. In this study, we introduce a novel approach to Human Action Recognition (HAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Mohammad Mahdavian , Mohammad Loni , Ted Samuelsson , Mo Chen

Skeleton-based zero-shot action recognition aims to recognize unknown human actions based on the learned priors of the known skeleton-based actions and a semantic descriptor space shared by both known and unknown categories. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yang Chen , Jingcai Guo , Tian He , Ling Wang

The success of Zero-shot Action Recognition (ZSAR) methods is intrinsically related to the nature of semantic side information used to transfer knowledge, although this aspect has not been primarily investigated in the literature. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Valter Estevam , Rayson Laroca , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

In real-world scenarios, human actions often fall outside the distribution of training data, making it crucial for models to recognize known actions and reject unknown ones. However, using pure skeleton data in such open-set conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Kunyu Peng , Cheng Yin , Junwei Zheng , Ruiping Liu , David Schneider , Jiaming Zhang , Kailun Yang , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Alina Roitberg

Skeleton sequences are lightweight and compact, and thus are ideal candidates for action recognition on edge devices. Recent skeleton-based action recognition methods extract features from 3D joint coordinates as spatial-temporal cues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Zhenyue Qin , Yang Liu , Pan Ji , Dongwoo Kim , Lei Wang , Bob McKay , Saeed Anwar , Tom Gedeon

Due to the fast processing-speed and robustness it can achieve, skeleton-based action recognition has recently received the attention of the computer vision community. The recent Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based methods have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Han Chen , Yifan Jiang , Hanseok Ko

This paper strives for self-supervised learning of a feature space suitable for skeleton-based action recognition. Our proposal is built upon learning invariances to input skeleton representations and various skeleton augmentations via a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Fida Mohammad Thoker , Hazel Doughty , Cees G. M. Snoek

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

In recent years, remarkable results have been achieved in self-supervised action recognition using skeleton sequences with contrastive learning. It has been observed that the semantic distinction of human action features is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Yilei Hua , Wenhan Wu , Ce Zheng , Aidong Lu , Mengyuan Liu , Chen Chen , Shiqian Wu

Zero-shot compositional action recognition (ZS-CAR) aims to identify unseen verb-object compositions in the videos by exploiting the learned knowledge of verb and object primitives during training. Despite compositional learning's progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Gefan Ye , Lin Li , Kexin Li , Jun Xiao , Long Chen

Sign language is commonly used by deaf or mute people to communicate but requires extensive effort to master. It is usually performed with the fast yet delicate movement of hand gestures, body posture, and even facial expressions. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Songyao Jiang , Bin Sun , Lichen Wang , Yue Bai , Kunpeng Li , Yun Fu

We introduce a novel deep learning framework for data-driven motion retargeting between skeletons, which may have different structure, yet corresponding to homeomorphic graphs. Importantly, our approach learns how to retarget without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Kfir Aberman , Peizhuo Li , Dani Lischinski , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Daniel Cohen-Or , Baoquan Chen

Contrastive learning has gained significant attention in skeleton-based action recognition for its ability to learn robust representations from unlabeled data. However, existing methods rely on a single skeleton convention, which limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Mert Kiray , Alvaro Ritter , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

Skeleton-based human action recognition has recently attracted increasing attention due to the popularity of 3D skeleton data. One main challenge lies in the large view variations in captured human actions. We propose a novel view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Pengfei Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Junliang Xing , Wenjun Zeng , Jianru Xue , Nanning Zheng