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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Canhui Tang , Sanping Zhou , Haoyue Shi , Le Wang

Recognizing human actions is a vital task for a humanoid robot, especially in domains like programming by demonstration. Previous approaches on action recognition primarily focused on the overall prevalent action being executed, but we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Christian R. G. Dreher , Mirko Wächter , Tamim Asfour

This paper proposes a human activity recognition method which is based on features learned from 3D video data without incorporating domain knowledge. The experiments on data collected by RGBD cameras produce results outperforming other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Ngu Nguyen

Landmark-based human action recognition in videos is a challenging task in computer vision. One key step is to design a generic approach that generates discriminative features for the spatial structure and temporal dynamics. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Weixin Yang , Terry Lyons , Hao Ni , Cordelia Schmid , Lianwen Jin

Human interaction recognition is a challenging problem in computer vision and has been researched over the years due to its important applications. With the development of deep models for the human pose estimation problem, this work aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Marcel Sheeny de Moraes , Sankha Mukherjee , Neil M Robertson

Human Action Recognition (HAR) is a very crucial task in computer vision. It helps to carry out a series of downstream tasks, like understanding human behaviors. Due to the complexity of human behaviors, many highly valuable behaviors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hongwu Li , Zhenliang Zhang , Wei Wang

Action Detection is a complex task that aims to detect and classify human actions in video clips. Typically, it has been addressed by processing fine-grained features extracted from a video classification backbone. Recently, thanks to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Matteo Tomei , Lorenzo Baraldi , Simone Calderara , Simone Bronzin , Rita Cucchiara

Detecting and recognizing human action in videos with crowded scenes is a challenging problem due to the complex environment and diversity events. Prior works always fail to deal with this problem in two aspects: (1) lacking utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Li Yuan , Yichen Zhou , Shuning Chang , Ziyuan Huang , Yunpeng Chen , Xuecheng Nie , Tao Wang , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Recognising human activities from streaming videos poses unique challenges to learning algorithms: predictive models need to be scalable, incrementally trainable, and must remain bounded in size even when the data stream is arbitrarily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-06 Rocco De Rosa , Ilaria Gori , Fabio Cuzzolin , Barbara Caputo , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

The goal of human action recognition is to temporally or spatially localize the human action of interest in video sequences. Temporal localization (i.e. indicating the start and end frames of the action in a video) is referred to as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Waqas Sultani , Qazi Ammar Arshad , Chen Chen

Recent advances in generalist robot manipulation leverage pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and large-scale robot demonstrations to tackle diverse tasks in a zero-shot manner. A key challenge remains: scaling high-quality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alexander Spiridonov , Jan-Nico Zaech , Nikolay Nikolov , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

In this paper, we study a novel problem in egocentric action recognition, which we term as "Multimodal Generalization" (MMG). MMG aims to study how systems can generalize when data from certain modalities is limited or even completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Xinyu Gong , Sreyas Mohan , Naina Dhingra , Jean-Charles Bazin , Yilei Li , Zhangyang Wang , Rakesh Ranjan

Motivated by the success of data-driven convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in object recognition on static images, researchers are working hard towards developing CNN equivalents for learning video features. However, learning video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Zhenzhong Lan , Dezhong Yao , Ming Lin , Shoou-I Yu , Alexander Hauptmann

The appearance of a human in clothing is driven not only by the pose but also by its temporal context, i.e., motion. However, such context has been largely neglected by existing monocular human modeling methods whose neural networks often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Hansol Lee , Junuk Cha , Yunhoe Ku , Jae Shin Yoon , Seungryul Baek

Human action analysis and understanding in videos is an important and challenging task. Although substantial progress has been made in past years, the explainability of existing methods is still limited. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , Peng Zhang , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

Despite excellent progress has been made, the performance on action recognition still heavily relies on specific datasets, which are difficult to extend new action classes due to labor-intensive labeling. Moreover, the high diversity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Xiaoyuan Ni , Sizhe Song , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Skeleton-based human action recognition has been drawing more interest recently due to its low sensitivity to appearance changes and the accessibility of more skeleton data. However, even the 3D skeletons captured in practice are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Cunling Bian , Wei Feng , Fanbo Meng , Song Wang

Video activity recognition has become increasingly important in robots and embodied AI. Recognizing continuous video activities poses considerable challenges due to the fast expansion of streaming video, which contains multi-scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Hao Wu , Donglin Bai , Shiqi Jiang , Qianxi Zhang , Yifan Yang , Xin Ding , Ting Cao , Yunxin Liu , Fengyuan Xu

Current researches of action recognition mainly focus on single-view and multi-view recognition, which can hardly satisfies the requirements of human-robot interaction (HRI) applications to recognize actions from arbitrary views. The lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Yanli Ji , Feixiang Xu , Yang Yang , Fumin Shen , Heng Tao Shen , Wei-Shi Zheng

Human activity recognition is one of the most important tasks in computer vision and has proved useful in different fields such as healthcare, sports training and security. There are a number of approaches that have been explored to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Sheryl Mathew , Annapoorani Subramanian , Pooja , Balamurugan MS , Manoj Kumar Rajagopal