Yunfeng Cai¹, Ran Qin¹, Jin Tang¹, Long Zhang¹, Xiaotian Bi¹, Qing Yang^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4979-4994, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050435

Abstract Electric power training is essential for ensuring the safety and reliability of the system. In this study, we introduce a novel Abnormal Action Recognition (AAR) system that utilizes a Lightweight Pose Estimation Network (LPEN) to efficiently and effectively detect abnormal fall-down and trespass incidents in electric power training scenarios. The LPEN network, comprising three stages—MobileNet, Initial Stage, and Refinement Stage—is employed to swiftly extract image features, detect human key points, and refine them for accurate analysis. Subsequently, a Pose-aware Action Analysis Module (PAAM) captures the positional coordinates of human skeletal points in each frame. Finally, More >

Arnab Dey^1,*, Samit Biswas¹, Dac-Nhuong Le²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.2, pp. 3067-3087, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049512

Abstract Regular exercise is a crucial aspect of daily life, as it enables individuals to stay physically active, lowers the likelihood of developing illnesses, and enhances life expectancy. The recognition of workout actions in video streams holds significant importance in computer vision research, as it aims to enhance exercise adherence, enable instant recognition, advance fitness tracking technologies, and optimize fitness routines. However, existing action datasets often lack diversity and specificity for workout actions, hindering the development of accurate recognition models. To address this gap, the Workout Action Video dataset (WAVd) has been introduced as a significant… More >

Wuyan Liang¹, Xiaolong Xu^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 1089-1103, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047861

Abstract Recognition of human gesture actions is a challenging issue due to the complex patterns in both visual and skeletal features. Existing gesture action recognition (GAR) methods typically analyze visual and skeletal data, failing to meet the demands of various scenarios. Furthermore, multi-modal approaches lack the versatility to efficiently process both uniform and disparate input patterns. Thus, in this paper, an attention-enhanced pseudo-3D residual model is proposed to address the GAR problem, called HgaNets. This model comprises two independent components designed for modeling visual RGB (red, green and blue) images and 3D skeletal heatmaps, respectively. More… More >

Yunhe Wang¹, Yuxin Xia², Shuai Liu^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.3, pp. 4489-4507, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048813

Abstract In recent years, skeleton-based action recognition has made great achievements in Computer Vision. A graph convolutional network (GCN) is effective for action recognition, modelling the human skeleton as a spatio-temporal graph. Most GCNs define the graph topology by physical relations of the human joints. However, this predefined graph ignores the spatial relationship between non-adjacent joint pairs in special actions and the behavior dependence between joint pairs, resulting in a low recognition rate for specific actions with implicit correlation between joint pairs. In addition, existing methods ignore the trend correlation between adjacent frames within an action… More >

Hae Sung Park¹, Yong Suk Choi^2,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.2, pp. 451-477, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.043245

Abstract Much like humans focus solely on object movement to understand actions, directing a deep learning model’s attention to the core contexts within videos is crucial for improving video comprehension. In the recent study, Video Masked Auto-Encoder (VideoMAE) employs a pre-training approach with a high ratio of tube masking and reconstruction, effectively mitigating spatial bias due to temporal redundancy in full video frames. This steers the model’s focus toward detailed temporal contexts. However, as the VideoMAE still relies on full video frames during the action recognition stage, it may exhibit a progressive shift in attention towards… More >

Oscar Peña-Cáceres^1,2,*, Henry Silva-Marchan³, Manuela Albert⁴, Miriam Gil¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1873-1891, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.043176

Abstract The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and smart home technologies has driven the need for speech recognition-based solutions. This demand stems from the quest for more intuitive and natural interaction between users and smart devices in their homes. Speech recognition allows users to control devices and perform everyday actions through spoken commands, eliminating the need for physical interfaces or touch screens and enabling specific tasks such as turning on or off the light, heating, or lowering the blinds. The purpose of this study is to develop a speech-based classification model for recognizing human actions in… More >

Tanvir Fatima Naik Bukht¹, Naif Al Mudawi², Saud S. Alotaibi³, Abdulwahab Alazeb², Mohammed Alonazi⁴, Aisha Ahmed AlArfaj⁵, Ahmad Jalal¹, Jaekwang Kim^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1557-1573, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.041335

Abstract Human-human interaction recognition is crucial in computer vision fields like surveillance, human-computer interaction, and social robotics. It enhances systems’ ability to interpret and respond to human behavior precisely. This research focuses on recognizing human interaction behaviors using a static image, which is challenging due to the complexity of diverse actions. The overall purpose of this study is to develop a robust and accurate system for human interaction recognition. This research presents a novel image-based human interaction recognition method using a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The technique employs hue, saturation, and intensity (HSI) color transformation to… More >

Rosepreet Kaur Bhogal^1,*, V. Devendran²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.3, pp. 2759-2772, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034862

Abstract Human activity recognition is a recent area of research for researchers. Activity recognition has many applications in smart homes to observe and track toddlers or oldsters for their safety, monitor indoor and outdoor activities, develop Tele immersion systems, or detect abnormal activity recognition. Three dimensions (3D) skeleton data is robust and somehow view-invariant. Due to this, it is one of the popular choices for human action recognition. This paper proposed using a transversal tree from 3D skeleton data to represent videos in a sequence. Further proposed two neural networks: convolutional neural network recurrent neural network_1… More >

Yong Li^1,4, Qiming Liang^2,*, Bo Gan³, Xiaolong Cui⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.1, pp. 1-23, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042494

Abstract Action recognition and detection is an important research topic in computer vision, which can be divided into action recognition and action detection. At present, the distinction between action recognition and action detection is not clear, and the relevant reviews are not comprehensive. Thus, this paper summarized the action recognition and detection methods and datasets based on deep learning to accurately present the research status in this field. Firstly, according to the way that temporal and spatial features are extracted from the model, the commonly used models of action recognition are divided into the two stream… More >

Muhammad Naeem Akbar^1,*, Seemab Khan², Muhammad Umar Farooq¹, Majed Alhaisoni³, Usman Tariq⁴, Muhammad Usman Akram¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3275-3295, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.039289

Abstract The combination of spatiotemporal videos and essential features can improve the performance of human action recognition (HAR); however, the individual type of features usually degrades the performance due to similar actions and complex backgrounds. The deep convolutional neural network has improved performance in recent years for several computer vision applications due to its spatial information. This article proposes a new framework called for video surveillance human action recognition dubbed HybridHR-Net. On a few selected datasets, deep transfer learning is used to pre-trained the EfficientNet-b0 deep learning model. Bayesian optimization is employed for the tuning of… More >