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One-shot skeleton action recognition, which aims to learn a skeleton action recognition model with a single training sample, has attracted increasing interest due to the challenge of collecting and annotating large-scale skeleton action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Siyuan Yang , Jun Liu , Shijian Lu , Er Meng Hwa , Alex C. Kot

Online continuous action recognition has emerged as a critical research area due to its practical implications in real-world applications, such as human-computer interaction, healthcare, and robotics. Among various modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Rim Slama , Wael Rabah , Hazem Wannous

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

Human action recognition as an important application of computer vision has been studied for decades. Among various approaches, skeleton-based methods recently attract increasing attention due to their robust and superior performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Tingtian Li , Zixun Sun , Xiao Chen

Skeleton-based action recognition, which classifies human actions based on the coordinates of joints and their connectivity within skeleton data, is widely utilized in various scenarios. While Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jeonghyeok Do , Munchurl Kim

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

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

Human action understanding serves as a foundational pillar in the field of intelligent motion perception. Skeletons serve as a modality- and device-agnostic representation for human modeling, and skeleton-based action understanding has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hongsong Wang , Wanjiang Weng , Junbo Wang , Fang Zhao , Guo-Sen Xie , Xin Geng , Liang Wang

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

Recent graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs) have shown high performance in the field of human action recognition by using human skeleton poses. However, it fails to detect human-object interaction cases successfully due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Hesham M. Shehata , Mohammad Abdolrahmani

Skeleton-based human action recognition aims to classify human skeletal sequences, which are spatiotemporal representations of actions, into predefined categories. To reduce the reliance on costly annotations of skeletal sequences while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zhigang Tu , Zhengbo Zhang , Jia Gong , Junsong Yuan , Bo Du

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong visual-language reasoning, yet cannot process structured, non-visual data such as human skeletons. Existing methods either compress skeleton dynamics into lossy feature vectors for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ziyi Wang , Peiming Li , Xinshun Wang , Yang Tang , Kai-Kuang Ma , Mengyuan Liu

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 human action recognition has attracted a lot of research attention during the past few years. Recent works attempted to utilize recurrent neural networks to model the temporal dependencies between the 3D positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Jun Liu , Amir Shahroudy , Dong Xu , Alex C. Kot , Gang Wang

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

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

Current state-of-the-art methods for skeleton-based temporal action segmentation are predominantly supervised and require annotated data, which is expensive to collect. In contrast, existing unsupervised temporal action segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Uzay Gökay , Federico Spurio , Dominik R. Bach , Juergen Gall

Skeleton-based action recognition aims to project skeleton sequences to action categories, where skeleton sequences are derived from multiple forms of pre-detected points. Compared with earlier methods that focus on exploring single-form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Xuanhan Wang , Yan Dai , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song

In human activity recognition (HAR), activity labels have typically been encoded in one-hot format, which has a recent shift towards using textual representations to provide contextual knowledge. Here, we argue that HAR should be anchored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Shuheng Li , Jiayun Zhang , Xiaohan Fu , Xiyuan Zhang , Jingbo Shang , Rajesh K. Gupta

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