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Motion tokenization is a key component of generalizable motion models, yet most existing approaches are restricted to species-specific skeletons, limiting their applicability across diverse morphologies. We propose NECromancer (NEC), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Mingxi Xu , Qi Wang , Zhengyu Wen , Phong Dao Thien , Zhengyu Li , Ning Zhang , Xiaoyu He , Wei Zhao , Kehong Gong , Mingyuan Zhang

Human action recognition is a crucial task for intelligent robotics, particularly within the context of human-robot collaboration research. In self-supervised skeleton-based action recognition, the mask-based reconstruction paradigm learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wei Wei , Shaojie Zhang , Yonghao Dang , Jianqin Yin

In visual surveillance systems, it is necessary to recognize the behavior of people handling objects such as a phone, a cup, or a plastic bag. In this paper, to address this problem, we propose a new framework for recognizing object-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Sunoh Kim , Kimin Yun , Jongyoul Park , Jin Young Choi

Due to the availability of large-scale skeleton datasets, 3D human action recognition has recently called the attention of computer vision community. Many works have focused on encoding skeleton data as skeleton image representations based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Carlos Caetano , Jessica Sena , François Brémond , Jefersson A. dos Santos , William Robson Schwartz

Recently, with the availability of cost-effective depth cameras coupled with real-time skeleton estimation, the interest in skeleton-based human action recognition is renewed. Most of the existing skeletal representation approaches use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Zhize Wu , Thomas Weise , Le Zou , Fei Sun , Ming Tan

Capturing the dependencies between joints is critical in skeleton-based action recognition task. Transformer shows great potential to model the correlation of important joints. However, the existing Transformer-based methods cannot capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Helei Qiu , Biao Hou , Bo Ren , Xiaohua Zhang

Recently, transformers have demonstrated great potential for modeling long-term dependencies from skeleton sequences and thereby gained ever-increasing attention in skeleton action recognition. However, the existing transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Wenhan Wu , Ce Zheng , Zihao Yang , Chen Chen , Srijan Das , Aidong Lu

This paper investigates body bones from skeleton data for skeleton based action recognition. Body joints, as the direct result of mature pose estimation technologies, are always the key concerns of traditional action recognition methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Xikun Zhang , Chang Xu , Xinmei Tian , Dacheng Tao

Automated assessment of human motion plays a vital role in rehabilitation, enabling objective evaluation of patient performance and progress. Unlike general human activity recognition, rehabilitation motion assessment focuses on analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ali Ismail-Fawaz , Maxime Devanne , Stefano Berretti , Jonathan Weber , Germain Forestier

Due to recent advances in pose-estimation methods, human motion can be extracted from a common video in the form of 3D skeleton sequences. Despite wonderful application opportunities, effective and efficient content-based access to large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Nicola Messina , Jan Sedmidubsky , Fabrizio Falchi , Tomáš Rebok

The shared topology of human skeletons motivated the recent investigation of graph convolutional network (GCN) solutions for action recognition. However, most of the existing GCNs rely on the binary connection of two neighboring vertices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Youwei Zhou , Tianyang Xu , Cong Wu , Xiaojun Wu , Josef Kittler

This paper presents a novel end-to-end method for the problem of skeleton-based unsupervised human action recognition. We propose a new architecture with a convolutional autoencoder that uses graph Laplacian regularization to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Giancarlo Paoletti , Jacopo Cavazza , Cigdem Beyan , Alessio Del Bue

We present SkeleTR, a new framework for skeleton-based action recognition. In contrast to prior work, which focuses mainly on controlled environments, we target more general scenarios that typically involve a variable number of people and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Haodong Duan , Mingze Xu , Bing Shuai , Davide Modolo , Zhuowen Tu , Joseph Tighe , Alessandro Bergamo

Human character animation is often critical in entertainment content production, including video games, virtual reality or fiction films. To this end, deep neural networks drive most recent advances through deep learning and deep…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-24 L. Mourot , L. Hoyet , F. Le Clerc , François Schnitzler , Pierre Hellier

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

Understanding human-to-human interactions, especially in contexts like public security surveillance, is critical for monitoring and maintaining safety. Traditional activity recognition systems are limited by fixed vocabularies, predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Multimodal human action understanding is a significant problem in computer vision, with the central challenge being the effective utilization of the complementarity among diverse modalities while maintaining model efficiency. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hongsong Wang , Heng Fei , Bingxuan Dai , Jie Gui

Motion retargeting is the long-standing problem in character animation that consists in transferring and adapting the motion of a source character to another target character. A typical application is the creation of motion sequences from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Lucas Mourot , Ludovic Hoyet , François Le Clerc , Pierre Hellier

Emotion recognition through body movements has emerged as a compelling and privacy-preserving alternative to traditional methods that rely on facial expressions or physiological signals. Recent advancements in 3D skeleton acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haifeng Lu , Jiuyi Chen , Zhen Zhang , Ruida Liu , Runhao Zeng , Xiping Hu

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) based methods have achieved advanced performance on skeleton-based action recognition task. However, the skeleton graph cannot fully represent the motion information contained in skeleton data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Jinfeng Wei , Yunxin Wang , Mengli Guo , Pei Lv , Xiaoshan Yang , Mingliang Xu