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A Comprehensive Survey of Vision-Based Human Action Recognition Methods

  • Hong-Bo Zhang,
  • Yi-Xiang Zhang,
  • Bineng Zhong,
  • Qing Lei,
  • Lijie Yang,
  • Ji-Xiang Du and
  • Duan-Sheng Chen

27 February 2019

Although widely used in many applications, accurate and efficient human action recognition remains a challenging area of research in the field of computer vision. Most recent surveys have focused on narrow problems such as human action recognition me...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,236 Views
40 Pages

29 November 2024

Action recognition, a vital subfield of computer vision, profoundly enhances security, health, and human–computer interaction through its sophisticated analytical capabilities. The review presents a comprehensive analysis of action recognition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,404 Views
16 Pages

Relational Action Bank with Semantic–Visual Attention for Few-Shot Action Recognition

  • Haoming Liang,
  • Jinze Du,
  • Hongchen Zhang,
  • Bing Han and
  • Yan Ma

Recently, few-shot learning has attracted significant attention in the field of video action recognition, owing to its data-efficient learning paradigm. Despite the encouraging progress, identifying ways to further improve the few-shot learning perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,593 Views
18 Pages

14 July 2024

The unsafe action of miners is one of the main causes of mine accidents. Research on underground miner unsafe action recognition based on computer vision enables relatively accurate real-time recognition of unsafe action among underground miners. A d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,967 Views
19 Pages

An Overview of the Vision-Based Human Action Recognition Field

  • Fernando Camarena,
  • Miguel Gonzalez-Mendoza,
  • Leonardo Chang and
  • Ricardo Cuevas-Ascencio

Artificial intelligence’s rapid advancement has enabled various applications, including intelligent video surveillance systems, assisted living, and human–computer interaction. These applications often require one core task: video-based h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,556 Views
26 Pages

Towards Recognition of Human Actions in Collaborative Tasks with Robots: Extending Action Recognition with Tool Recognition Methods

  • Lukas Büsch,
  • Julian Koch,
  • Daniel Schoepflin,
  • Michelle Schulze and
  • Thorsten Schüppstuhl

19 June 2023

This paper presents a novel method for online tool recognition in manual assembly processes. The goal was to develop and implement a method that can be integrated with existing Human Action Recognition (HAR) methods in collaborative tasks. We examine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,226 Views
16 Pages

23 October 2024

Human action recognition (HAR) is a critical area in computer vision with wide-ranging applications, including video surveillance, healthcare monitoring, and abnormal behavior detection. Current HAR methods predominantly rely on full-body data, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,833 Views
17 Pages

Action Recognition in Videos through a Transfer-Learning-Based Technique

  • Elizabeth López-Lozada,
  • Humberto Sossa,
  • Elsa Rubio-Espino and
  • Jesús Yaljá Montiel-Pérez

17 October 2024

In computer vision, human action recognition is a hot topic, popularized by the development of deep learning. Deep learning models typically accept video input without prior processing and train them to achieve recognition. However, conducting prelim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,479 Views
13 Pages

Contextual Action Cues from Camera Sensor for Multi-Stream Action Recognition

  • Jongkwang Hong,
  • Bora Cho,
  • Yong Won Hong and
  • Hyeran Byun

20 March 2019

In action recognition research, two primary types of information are appearance and motion information that is learned from RGB images through visual sensors. However, depending on the action characteristics, contextual information, such as the exist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,938 Views
20 Pages

28 August 2020

In taekwondo, poomsae (i.e., form) competitions have no quantitative scoring standards, unlike gyeorugi (i.e., full-contact sparring) in the Olympics. Consequently, there are diverse fairness issues regarding poomsae evaluation, and the demand for qu...

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  • Open Access
78 Citations
16,193 Views
16 Pages

28 November 2019

Aerial human action recognition is an emerging topic in drone applications. Commercial drone platforms capable of detecting basic human actions such as hand gestures have been developed. However, a limited number of aerial video datasets are availabl...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,605 Views
15 Pages

Investigating the Impact of Possession-Way of a Smartphone on Action Recognition

  • Zae Myung Kim,
  • Young-Seob Jeong,
  • Hyung Rai Oh,
  • Kyo-Joong Oh,
  • Chae-Gyun Lim,
  • Youssef Iraqi and
  • Ho-Jin Choi

2 June 2016

For the past few decades, action recognition has been attracting many researchers due to its wide use in a variety of applications. Especially with the increasing number of smartphone users, many studies have been conducted using sensors within a sma...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,326 Views
16 Pages

1 September 2020

In the domain of human action recognition, existing works mainly focus on using RGB, depth, skeleton and infrared data for analysis. While these methods have the benefit of being non-invasive, they can only be used within limited setups, are prone to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,640 Views
18 Pages

24 October 2024

Conventional approaches to video action recognition perform global attention over the entire video patches, which may be ineffective due to the temporal redundancy of video frames. Recent works on masked video modeling adopt a high-ratio tube masking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,609 Views
16 Pages

28 February 2025

Video action recognition aims to achieve the automatic classification of human behaviors by analyzing the actions in videos, with its core lying in accurately capturing the spatial detail features of images and the temporal dynamic features among vid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,968 Views
19 Pages

Follower: A Novel Self-Deployable Action Recognition Framework

  • Xu Yang,
  • Dongjingdian Liu,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Faren Yan,
  • Pengpeng Chen and
  • Qiang Niu

1 February 2021

Deep learning technology has improved the performance of vision-based action recognition algorithms, but such methods require a large number of labeled training datasets, resulting in weak universality. To address this issue, this paper proposes a no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,385 Views
19 Pages

A Graph Skeleton Transformer Network for Action Recognition

  • Yujian Jiang,
  • Zhaoneng Sun,
  • Saisai Yu,
  • Shuang Wang and
  • Yang Song

28 July 2022

Skeleton-based action recognition is a research hotspot in the field of computer vision. Currently, the mainstream method is based on Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs). Although there are many advantages of GCNs, GCNs mainly rely on graph topologie...

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  • Open Access
1,935 Views
14 Pages

Separable ConvNet Spatiotemporal Mixer for Action Recognition

  • Hsu-Yung Cheng,
  • Chih-Chang Yu and
  • Chenyu Li

Video action recognition is vital in the research area of computer vision. In this paper, we develop a novel model, named Separable ConvNet Spatiotemporal Mixer (SCSM). Our goal is to develop an efficient and lightweight action recognition backbone t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,653 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2021

The visual recognition and understanding of human actions remain an active research domain of computer vision, being the scope of various research works over the last two decades. The problem is challenging due to its many interpersonal variations in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,166 Views
24 Pages

20 February 2018

With the introduction of cost-effective depth sensors, a tremendous amount of research has been devoted to studying human action recognition using 3D motion data. However, most existing methods work in an offline fashion, i.e., they operate on a segm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,902 Views
14 Pages

I3D-Shufflenet Based Human Action Recognition

  • Guocheng Liu,
  • Caixia Zhang,
  • Qingyang Xu,
  • Ruoshi Cheng,
  • Yong Song,
  • Xianfeng Yuan and
  • Jie Sun

18 November 2020

In view of difficulty in application of optical flow based human action recognition due to large amount of calculation, a human action recognition algorithm I3D-shufflenet model is proposed combining the advantages of I3D neural network and lightweig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,266 Views
19 Pages

The technologies associated with recognizing human sitting posture and actions primarily involve computer vision, sensors, and radio frequency (RF) methods. These approaches often involve handling substantial amounts of data, pose privacy concerns, a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
83 Citations
14,244 Views
25 Pages

RGB-D Data-Based Action Recognition: A Review

  • Muhammad Bilal Shaikh and
  • Douglas Chai

21 June 2021

Classification of human actions is an ongoing research problem in computer vision. This review is aimed to scope current literature on data fusion and action recognition techniques and to identify gaps and future research direction. Success in produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,610 Views
21 Pages

6 October 2018

As an important branch of video analysis, human action recognition has attracted extensive research attention in computer vision and artificial intelligence communities. In this paper, we propose to model the temporal evolution of multi-temporal-scal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,568 Views
17 Pages

A Bayesian Dynamical Approach for Human Action Recognition

  • Amirreza Farnoosh,
  • Zhouping Wang,
  • Shaotong Zhu and
  • Sarah Ostadabbas

20 August 2021

We introduce a generative Bayesian switching dynamical model for action recognition in 3D skeletal data. Our model encodes highly correlated skeletal data into a few sets of low-dimensional switching temporal processes and from there decodes to the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,142 Views
17 Pages

FineTea: A Novel Fine-Grained Action Recognition Video Dataset for Tea Ceremony Actions

  • Changwei Ouyang,
  • Yun Yi,
  • Hanli Wang,
  • Jin Zhou and
  • Tao Tian

31 August 2024

Methods based on deep learning have achieved great success in the field of video action recognition. When these methods are applied to real-world scenarios that require fine-grained analysis of actions, such as being tested on a tea ceremony, limitat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,407 Views
13 Pages

11 December 2024

This paper aims to enhance the effectiveness of table tennis coaching and player performance analysis through human action recognition by using deep learning. In the field of video analysis, human action recognition has emerged as a highly researched...

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  • Open Access
101 Citations
11,619 Views
32 Pages

A Review on Computer Vision-Based Methods for Human Action Recognition

  • Mahmoud Al-Faris,
  • John Chiverton,
  • David Ndzi and
  • Ahmed Isam Ahmed

Human action recognition targets recognising different actions from a sequence of observations and different environmental conditions. A wide different applications is applicable to vision based action recognition research. This can include video sur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,411 Views
15 Pages

Dilated Multi-Temporal Modeling for Action Recognition

  • Tao Zhang,
  • Yifan Wu and
  • Xiaoqiang Li

8 June 2023

Action recognition involves capturing temporal information from video clips where the duration varies with videos for the same action. Due to the diverse scale of temporal context, uniform size kernels utilized in convolutional neural networks (CNNs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,754 Views
31 Pages

Continuous Human Action Recognition Using Depth-MHI-HOG and a Spotter Model

  • Hyukmin Eum,
  • Changyong Yoon,
  • Heejin Lee and
  • Mignon Park

3 March 2015

In this paper, we propose a new method for spotting and recognizing continuous human actions using a vision sensor. The method is comprised of depth-MHI-HOG (DMH), action modeling, action spotting, and recognition. First, to effectively separate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,904 Views
17 Pages

6 January 2024

Behavioral analysis of animals in the wild plays an important role for ecological research and conservation and has been mostly performed by researchers. We introduce an action detection approach that automates this process by detecting animals and p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,988 Views
16 Pages

8 December 2023

Human action recognition (HAR) as the most representative human-centred computer vision task is critical in human resource management (HRM), especially in human resource recruitment, performance appraisal, and employee training. Currently, prevailing...

  • Review
  • Open Access
120 Citations
20,763 Views
40 Pages

Human Action Recognition: A Taxonomy-Based Survey, Updates, and Opportunities

  • Md Golam Morshed,
  • Tangina Sultana,
  • Aftab Alam and
  • Young-Koo Lee

15 February 2023

Human action recognition systems use data collected from a wide range of sensors to accurately identify and interpret human actions. One of the most challenging issues for computer vision is the automatic and precise identification of human activitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
6,956 Views
13 Pages

24 August 2019

This paper presents the simultaneous utilization of video images and inertial signals that are captured at the same time via a video camera and a wearable inertial sensor within a fusion framework in order to achieve a more robust human action recogn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,684 Views
18 Pages

Action Recognition Using a Spatial-Temporal Network for Wild Felines

  • Liqi Feng,
  • Yaqin Zhao,
  • Yichao Sun,
  • Wenxuan Zhao and
  • Jiaxi Tang

12 February 2021

Behavior analysis of wild felines has significance for the protection of a grassland ecological environment. Compared with human action recognition, fewer researchers have focused on feline behavior analysis. This paper proposes a novel two-stream ar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,471 Views
18 Pages

29 October 2017

Action and event recognition in multimedia collections is relevant to progress in cross-disciplinary research areas including computer vision, computational optimization, statistical learning, and nonlinear dynamics. Over the past two decades, action...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,508 Views
17 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Violin Bowing Action Recognition

  • Shih-Wei Sun,
  • Bao-Yun Liu and
  • Pao-Chi Chang

9 October 2020

We propose a violin bowing action recognition system that can accurately recognize distinct bowing actions in classical violin performance. This system can recognize bowing actions by analyzing signals from a depth camera and from inertial sensors th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,350 Views
18 Pages

Action Recognition of Taekwondo Unit Actions Using Action Images Constructed with Time-Warped Motion Profiles

  • Junghwan Lim,
  • Chenglong Luo,
  • Seunghun Lee,
  • Young Eun Song and
  • Hoeryong Jung

18 April 2024

Taekwondo has evolved from a traditional martial art into an official Olympic sport. This study introduces a novel action recognition model tailored for Taekwondo unit actions, utilizing joint-motion data acquired via wearable inertial measurement un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,457 Views
16 Pages

29 April 2025

Skeleton-based human action recognition has garnered significant attention for its robustness to background noise and illumination variations. However, existing methods relying on Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and Transformers exhibit inherent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,563 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient Human Instance-Guided Framework for Video Action Recognition

  • Inwoong Lee,
  • Doyoung Kim,
  • Dongyoon Wee and
  • Sanghoon Lee

12 December 2021

In recent years, human action recognition has been studied by many computer vision researchers. Recent studies have attempted to use two-stream networks using appearance and motion features, but most of these approaches focused on clip-level video ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,783 Views
16 Pages

Human Action Recognition and Note Recognition: A Deep Learning Approach Using STA-GCN

  • Avirmed Enkhbat,
  • Timothy K. Shih and
  • Pimpa Cheewaprakobkit

14 April 2024

Human action recognition (HAR) is growing in machine learning with a wide range of applications. One challenging aspect of HAR is recognizing human actions while playing music, further complicated by the need to recognize the musical notes being play...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,557 Views
12 Pages

In this paper, we propose a viewpoint-aware action recognition method using skeleton-based features from static images. Our method consists of three main steps. First, we categorize the viewpoint from an input static image. Second, we extract 2D/3D j...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,391 Views
49 Pages

31 July 2020

The coexistence of robots and humans in shared physical and social spaces is expected to increase. A key enabler of high-quality interaction is a mutual understanding of each other’s actions and intentions. In this paper, we motivate and presen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,644 Views
16 Pages

Background Invariant Faster Motion Modeling for Drone Action Recognition

  • Ketan Kotecha,
  • Deepak Garg,
  • Balmukund Mishra,
  • Pratik Narang and
  • Vipul Kumar Mishra

31 August 2021

Visual data collected from drones has opened a new direction for surveillance applications and has recently attracted considerable attention among computer vision researchers. Due to the availability and increasing use of the drone for both public an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,938 Views
14 Pages

22 November 2016

Inspired by the overwhelming success of Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) features in many vision tasks, in this paper, we present an innovative compact feature descriptor called fuzzy Histogram of Oriented Lines (f-HOL) for action recognition, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,741 Views
22 Pages

Recognition of Upper Limb Action Intention Based on IMU

  • Jian-Wei Cui,
  • Zhi-Gang Li,
  • Han Du,
  • Bing-Yan Yan and
  • Pu-Dong Lu

2 March 2022

Using motion information of the upper limb to control the prosthetic hand has become a hotspot of current research. The operation of the prosthetic hand must also be coordinated with the user’s intention. Therefore, identifying action intention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,300 Views
12 Pages

25 June 2016

This research features object recognition that exploits the context of object-action interaction to enhance the recognition performance. Since objects have specific usages, and human actions corresponding to these usages can be associated with these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,876 Views
17 Pages

27 May 2022

In this paper, we propose an integrated approach to robot vision: a key frame-based skeleton feature estimation and action recognition network (KFSENet) that incorporates action recognition with face and emotion recognition to enable social robots to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,681 Views
16 Pages

Global Correlation Enhanced Hand Action Recognition Based on NST-GCN

  • Shiqiang Yang,
  • Qi Li,
  • Duo He,
  • Jinhua Wang and
  • Dexin Li

11 August 2022

Hand action recognition is an important part of intelligent monitoring, human–computer interaction, robotics and other fields. Compared with other methods, the hand action recognition method using skeleton information can ignore the error effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,999 Views
19 Pages

Action Recognition Using Single-Pixel Time-of-Flight Detection

  • Ikechukwu Ofodile,
  • Ahmed Helmi,
  • Albert Clapés,
  • Egils Avots,
  • Kerttu Maria Peensoo,
  • Sandhra-Mirella Valdma,
  • Andreas Valdmann,
  • Heli Valtna-Lukner,
  • Sergey Omelkov and
  • Gholamreza Anbarjafari
  • + 2 authors

18 April 2019

Action recognition is a challenging task that plays an important role in many robotic systems, which highly depend on visual input feeds. However, due to privacy concerns, it is important to find a method which can recognise actions without using vis...

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