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Automatic surgical activity recognition enables more intelligent surgical devices and a more efficient workflow. Integration of such technology in new operating rooms has the potential to improve care delivery to patients and decrease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Ali Mottaghi , Aidean Sharghi , Serena Yeung , Omid Mohareri

Mistake analysis in procedural activities is a critical area of research with applications spanning industrial automation, physical rehabilitation, education and human-robot collaboration. This paper reviews vision-based methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Konstantinos Bacharidis , Antonis A. Argyros

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models mark a transformative advancement in artificial intelligence, aiming to unify perception, natural language understanding, and embodied action within a single computational framework. This foundational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ranjan Sapkota , Yang Cao , Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Manoj Karkee

Surgical procedures are inherently complex and dynamic, with intricate dependencies and various execution paths. Accurate identification of the intentions behind critical actions, referred to as Primary Intentions (PIs), is crucial to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Jie Zhang , Song Zhou , Yiwei Wang , Chidan Wan , Huan Zhao , Xiong Cai , Han Ding

Understanding human actions is critical for advancing behavior analysis in human-robot interaction. Particularly in tasks that demand quick and proactive feedback, robots must recognize human actions as early as possible from incomplete…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yongpeng Cao , Masahiro Hirano , Hyuno Kim , Yuji Yamakawa

With the inherent advantages of skeleton representation, 3D skeleton-based action recognition has become a prominent topic in the field of computer vision. However, previous reviews have predominantly adopted a model-oriented perspective,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mengyuan Liu , Hong Liu , Qianshuo Hu , Bin Ren , Junsong Yuan , Jiaying Lin , Jiajun Wen

In the realm of automated robotic surgery and computer-assisted interventions, understanding robotic surgical activities stands paramount. Existing algorithms dedicated to surgical activity recognition predominantly cater to pre-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Long Bai , Guankun Wang , Jie Wang , Xiaoxiao Yang , Huxin Gao , Xin Liang , An Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Hongliang Ren

Surgical activity recognition and prediction can help provide important context in many Robot-Assisted Surgery (RAS) applications, for example, surgical progress monitoring and estimation, surgical skill evaluation, and shared control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Chang Shi , Yi Zheng , Ann Majewicz Fey

Following the successful paradigm shift of large language models, leveraging pre-training on a massive corpus of data and fine-tuning on different downstream tasks, generalist models have made their foray into computer vision. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Andrea Moglia , Matteo Leccardi , Matteo Cavicchioli , Alice Maccarini , Marco Marcon , Luca Mainardi , Pietro Cerveri

Surgery is a high-stakes domain where surgeons must navigate critical anatomical structures and actively avoid potential complications while achieving the main task at hand. Such surgical activity has been shown to affect long-term patient…

Many believe that the successes of deep learning on image understanding problems can be replicated in the realm of video understanding. However, due to the scale and temporal nature of video, the span of video understanding problems and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Matthew Hutchinson , Vijay Gadepally

Computer-assisted surgery research requires large, deeply annotated video datasets that capture clinical and technical variability. Existing cataract surgery resources lack the diversity and annotation depth required to train generalizable…

Correctly recognizing the behaviors of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is of vital importance for the diagnosis of Autism and timely early intervention. However, the observation and recording during the treatment from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Andong Deng , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen , Qian Chen , Leslie Neely , Sakiko Oyama

Surgery is a highly complex process, and artificial intelligence has emerged as a transformative force in supporting surgical guidance and decision-making. However, the unimodal nature of most current AI systems limits their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Nakul Poudel , Richard Simon , Cristian A. Linte

Automated surgical workflow analysis is crucial for education, research, and clinical decision-making, but the lack of annotated datasets hinders the development of accurate and comprehensive workflow analysis solutions. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 David Gastager , Ghazal Ghazaei , Constantin Patsch

In this work, we take aim towards increasing the effectiveness of surgical assistant robots. We intended to make assistant robots safer by making them aware about the actions of surgeon, so it can take appropriate assisting actions. In…

Most benchmarks for studying surgical interventions focus on a specific challenge instead of leveraging the intrinsic complementarity among different tasks. In this work, we present a new experimental framework towards holistic surgical…

Foundation models have revolutionized computer vision by achieving vastly superior performance across diverse tasks through large-scale pretraining on extensive datasets. However, their application in surgical computer vision has been…

Open, or non-laparoscopic surgery, represents the vast majority of all operating room procedures, but few tools exist to objectively evaluate these techniques at scale. Current efforts involve human expert-based visual assessment. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Michael Zhang , Xiaotian Cheng , Daniel Copeland , Arjun Desai , Melody Y. Guan , Gabriel A. Brat , Serena Yeung

Modeling and automatically recognizing surgical activities are fundamental steps toward automation in surgery and play important roles in providing timely feedback to surgeons. Accurately recognizing surgical activities in video poses a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Abdishakour Awale , Duygu Sarikaya