Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition

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  1. Learning Probabilistic Embeddings for Unsupervised Action Segmentation

    Jul 6, 2026Shuai Li, Duc Manh Vu, Juergen GallTemporal Action SegmentationLatent Actions

  2. Video-Text Temporal Localization via Multi-Scale Convolution and Dynamic Routing

    Jul 6, 2026Gengtian Shi, Jinze Yu, Chenhao Wu +5Temporal Action LocalizationCross-Modal Alignment

  3. TubeLite: Lightweight Multi-Actor Spatio-Temporal Action Detection

    Jul 6, 2026Ali Soltaninezhad, Melissa Cote, Alejandro Rico Espinosa +2Temporal Action LocalizationOptical Flow

  4. Spatial Graph Representation and Morphometric Analysis of the Pulmonary Vascular Tree From Computed Tomography Using Multi-Scale Hessian-Based Filter Fusion and TEASAR Skeletonization

    Jul 5, 2026Piotr Mackiewicz, Jakub Kołyska, Radoslaw RoszczykCoronary AngiographyKey Vertebral Morphometry Variables

  5. SAGE: Synchronized Action-Gaze Recognition and Anticipation for Human Behavior Understanding

    Jul 4, 2026Chenyi Kuang, Nakul AgarwalGazeOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  6. From General Actions to Domain-Specific Monitoring: Prior-Adaptive Transfer for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

    Jul 3, 2026Hao Wang, Di Yang, Jiangtao WangSkeleton-Based Action RecognitionAdversarial Motion Priors

  7. A Multi-Task Deep Learning Framework for Real-Time Intelligent Video Surveillance with Temporal Event Validation

    Jul 3, 2026Estera Dumitru, Stelian SpînuVideo SurveillanceOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  8. SAMoR: Motion Modelling for Articulated Objects of Any Skeleton and Topology

    Jul 2, 2026Yuhao Zhang, Gerard Pons-Moll, Tolga BirdalSkeletonHuman Motion Generation

  9. Partial Skeleton Visibility for Action Recognition: A Constrained Field-of-View Approach

    Jul 1, 2026Yingjie Dai, Tianyang Xu, Yanglin Deng +2Skeleton-Based Action RecognitionVisibility

  10. OnPoint: Offline-to-Online Multi-Level Distillation for Point-Supervised Online Temporal Action Localization

    Jul 1, 2026Sakib Reza, Gauri Jagatap, Mohsen Moghaddam +2Temporal Action LocalizationPrompt Distillation

  11. SkillSpotter: Pose-Aware Multi-View Skilled Action Detection and Grading in Ego-Exo Videos

    Jun 30, 2026Björn Braun, Christian HolzTemporal Action LocalizationOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  12. SkelEM: Training-Signal Decoupling of Skeleton and Diffusion for Self-supervised Axial Super-Resolution in Volume Microscopy

    Jun 29, 2026Bohao Chen, Yanchao Zhang, Yanan Lv +3Diffusion-Based Super-Resolution FrameworkMicroscopy

  13. Identifying the Unknown: Prompt-Free Open Vocabulary Anomaly Recognition for Robot-Object Interaction

    Jun 25, 2026Philipp Allgeuer, Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Stefan WermterOpen-VocabularyRobotic Perception

  14. Follow Your Track: Precise Skeleton Animation Controlled by 3D Trajectories

    Jun 24, 2026Yueting Liu, Yanqin Jiang, Nian Liu +44D GenerationSkeleton

  15. KidRisk: Benchmark Dataset for Children Dangerous Action Recognition

    Jun 24, 2026Minh-Kha Nguyen, Trung-Hieu Do, Kim Anh Phung +3Open-Vocabulary Action RecognitionBenchmark Datasets

  16. Modality-Aware Out-of-Distribution Detection for Multi-Modal Action Recognition

    Jun 23, 2026Lars Doorenbos, Duc Manh Vu, Serdar Ozsoy +1Out-Of-Distribution DetectionOut-Of-Distribution

  17. SoccerNet 2026 Player-Centric Ball Action Spotting: Per-Player Attention with Agreement-Based Ensembling

    Jun 23, 2026Faisal Altawijri, Ismail MathkourTemporal Action LocalizationSpatio-Temporal Transformers

  18. P-JEPA: Procedural Video Representation Learning via Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture

    Jun 22, 2026Felix Tristram, Stefano Gasperini, Benjamin Killeen +4Joint-Embedding Predictive ArchitecturesTemporal Action Segmentation

  19. LUMINA-26: Low-Light Understanding for Modeling and Interpreting Night-time Actions

    Jun 22, 2026Aman Kumar Pandey, Anil Singh PariharLow-Light ImagesOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  20. Gen2Balance: Generative Balancing for Long-Tailed Video Action Recognition

    Jun 21, 2026Prajwal Gatti, Simon Jenni, Fabian Caba Heilbron +1Open-Vocabulary Action RecognitionVideo Dataset

  21. Gold Points Sniper: Self-guided Visual Reasoning in VLM for Fine-grained Action Understanding

    Jun 21, 2026Haodi Liu, Xinhang Yang, Kunda Yan +3Fine-Grained ActionsOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  22. T-MOR: Learning Motion-Aware Skeleton Representations for Human Action Recognition

    Jun 19, 2026Di Yang, Mahmoud Ali, Quan Kong +2Skeleton-Based Action RecognitionOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  23. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLMs for Zero-shot Procedural Mistake Detection

    Jun 19, 2026Serdar Ozsoy, Lars Doorenbos, Federico Spurio +2Video-Language ModelsProcedural

  24. LEViL: Label-Efficient Video Learning via Zero-Shot Distillation over VLM-Generated Pseudo-Label Spaces

    Jun 19, 2026Aslı ÇelikVideo PretrainingOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  25. A Neurosymbolic Framework for Interpretable Skeleton-Based Seizure Detection via Concept-Driven Logical Reasoning

    Jun 19, 2026Talha Ilyas, Deval Mehta, Zongyuan GeInterictal Epileptiform DischargesNeuro-Symbolic Framework

  26. PIAvatar: Physically Interactive Avatars via Deformation Gradient Decoupling

    Jun 19, 2026Sang-Hun Han, Min-Gyu Park, Jisu Shin +3High-Fidelity AvatarDeformable Objects

  27. SketchKeyAnime: Reference-anchored Sparse Key-Sketch Animation Synthesis

    Jun 18, 2026Meixi Li, Xianlin Zhang, Yue Zhang +1Keyframe SelectionSketches

  28. Robust Zero-Shot Generalization for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition via Task Arithmetic

    Jun 17, 2026Francesca Morandi, Omayma Moussadek, Federico Venturini +5Open-Vocabulary Action RecognitionZero-Shot Inference

  29. Divide, Deliberate, Decide: A Multi-Agent Framework for Fine-Grained Egocentric Action Recognition

    Jun 16, 2026Alessandro Sottovia, Alessandro Torcinovich, Oswald LanzOpen-Vocabulary Action RecognitionFine-Grained Video Understanding

  30. Improving and Evaluating Hand-Object Interaction Detection

    Jun 16, 2026Ahmad Darkhalil, Dima Damen, David FouheyTraining-Free Hand-Object Interaction DetectionHand

  31. From Frames to Temporal Graphs: In-Context Egocentric Action Recognition with Vision-Language Models

    Jun 13, 2026Bessie Dominguez-Dager, Francisco Gomez-Donoso, Miguel Cazorla +3Open-Vocabulary Action RecognitionEgocentric Video

  32. OR-Action: Multi-Role Video Understanding with Fine-Grained Actions

    Jun 11, 2026Felix Tristram, Ege Özsoy, Christian Benz +3Open-Vocabulary Action RecognitionFine-Grained Actions

  33. Quality-Preserving Imperceptible Adversarial Attack on Skeleton-based Human Action Recognition

    Jun 11, 2026Ziyi Chang, Kanglei Zhou, Xiaohui Liang +1Skeleton-Based Action RecognitionAdversarial Examples

  34. SpikeTAD: Spiking Neural Networks for End-to-End Temporal Action Detection

    Jun 10, 2026Min Yang, Mi Zhou, Limin WangTemporal Action LocalizationBinary Spikes

  35. Motion Reinforces Appearance: RGB-Skeleton Gated Residual Fusion for Micro-Gesture Online Recognition

    Jun 10, 2026Jialin Liu, Xinwen He, Pengyu Liu +3Hand Gesture RecognitionSkeleton-Based Action Recognition

  36. Exploring Adaptive Masked Reconstruction for Self-Supervised Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

    Jun 9, 2026Shengkai Sun, Zhiyong Cheng, Zefan Zhang +3Skeleton-Based Action RecognitionSelf-Supervised

  37. Real-time body pose non-verbal communication with a consistency-based reliability measure

    Jun 8, 2026Alina Marcu, Dragos Costea, Cristina Lazar +1Nonverbal CuesHuman Motion

  38. TBD-VLA: Temporal Block Diffusion Vision Language Action Model

    Jun 5, 2026Sung-Wook Lee, Xuhui Kang, Yen-Ling KuoPretrained Vision-Language-ActionTemporal Action Localization

  39. A New Angle on Bones: Robust Pose Estimation in X-Ray and Ultrasound

    Jun 3, 2026Ron Keuth, Christoph Großbröhmer, Franziska Halm +5Category-Level Object Pose EstimationTransmissive X-Ray Imaging

  40. SkelHCC: A Hyperbolic CLIP-Driven Cache Adaptation Framework for Skeleton-based One-Shot Action Recognition

    Jun 2, 2026Yanan Liu, Anqi Zhu, Jingmin Zhu +6Skeleton-Based Action RecognitionSkeleton

  41. TrAction: Action Recognition with Sparse Trajectories

    Jun 2, 2026Jan F. Meier, Felix B. Mueller, Alexander Ecker +1Open-Vocabulary Action RecognitionInteraction Trajectories

  42. SkelMo: Universal Skeletal Motion Generation for 3D Rigged Shapes

    Jun 1, 2026Ye Tao, Yuxin Yao, Kendong Liu +2SkeletonHuman Motion Generation

  43. LastAct: Trajectory-Guided Latest-Activity Localization for Real-Time Smart-Home Activity Recognition

    May 29, 2026Zishuai Liu, Ruili Fang, Jin Lu +1Human Activity RecognitionTemporal Action Localization

  44. Ego-METAS: Egocentric online Multimodal Energy-efficient Temporal Action Segmentation benchmark

    May 29, 2026Maria Santos-Villafranca, Jesus Bermudez-cameo, Alejandro Perez-Yus +2Temporal Action SegmentationMulti-Modal Sensing

  45. Polyphony: Diffusion-based Dual-Hand Action Segmentation with Alternating Vision Transformer and Semantic Conditioning

    May 29, 2026Hao Zheng, Hu Wang, Tiantian Zheng +2Temporal Action SegmentationBimanual Manipulation

  46. Remembering by Reconstructing: Domain Incremental Learning With Test-Time Training on Video Streams

    May 29, 2026Jonathan Swinnen, Tinne TuytelaarsDomain Incremental LearningDomain Adaptation

  47. ConTrans: Learning Text-enhanced Local-global Temporal Representations for Zero-shot Temporal Action Localization

    May 29, 2026Kanchan Keisham, Thenukan Pathmanathan, Thangarajah AkilanTemporal Action LocalizationMultiscale

  48. Masked Diffusion Vision-Language Models for Temporal Action Localization

    May 28, 2026Fengshun Wang, Zhengbo Zhang, Zhigang TuTemporal Action LocalizationMasked Diffusion Language Models

  49. CLANE: Continual Learning of Actions on Neuromorphic Hardware from Event Cameras

    May 27, 2026Elvin Hajizada, Michael Neumeier, Edward Paxon Frady +4Neuromorphic HardwareOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  50. Curve Skeletonization in Continuous domain for Meshes and Point Clouds

    May 25, 2026Jai Bardhan, Ramya Hebbalaguppe, Aravind UdupaSkeletonizationStatistical Shape Model

  51. UAV-OVO: Out-of-Viewpoint Generalization in UAV Action Recognition

    May 25, 2026Yu Xia, Zhengbo Zhang, Shuaihu Zhang +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  52. EgoAction: Egocentric Action Composition with Reliability-Aware Temporal Fusion for the EPIC-KITCHENS Action Detection Challenge at CVPR 2026

    May 23, 2026Zhiheng Fu, Zixu Li, Zhiwei Chen +4Temporal Action LocalizationOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  53. Cross-Modal Action Recognition in Egocentric Video Using Mamba: Integrating RGB and Hand Skeleton Streams via CLS Token Fusion Strategies

    May 23, 2026Juan Ignacio Bustos Gorostegui, Maria Elena BuemiOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition3D Hand

  54. Decoupling Spatio-Temporal Adapter for Fine-Grained Badminton Action Localization

    May 22, 2026Tianyu Wang, Junjie Wu, Jingquan Gao +1Temporal Action LocalizationFine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Information

  55. Spatio-Temporal Similarity Volume Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition

    May 22, 2026Yerim So, Jiyeong Kim, Jiwon Yoon +1Open-Vocabulary Action RecognitionFine-Grained Video Understanding

  56. Cross-Domain Human Action Recognition from Multiview Motion and Textual Descriptions

    May 21, 2026Yannick Porto, Renato Martins, Thomas Chalumeau +1Open-Vocabulary Action RecognitionMulti-View

  57. Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization Through Textual Guidance

    May 21, 2026Benedetta Liberatori, Alessandro Conti, Lorenzo Vaquero +3Temporal Action LocalizationVideo Temporal Grounding

  58. VISTA: Technical Report for the Ego4D Short-Term Object Interaction Anticipation at EgoVis 2026

    May 20, 2026Qiaohui Chu, Haoyu Zhang, Yisen Feng +4Temporal Action LocalizationEgocentric Vision

  59. DarkShake-DVS: Event-based Human Action Recognition under Low-light andShaking Camera Conditions

    May 20, 2026Jiaqi Chen, Qinfu Xu, Liyuan PanOpen-Vocabulary Action RecognitionLow-Light Images

  60. Seeing Through Fog: Towards Fog-Invariant Action Recognition

    May 20, 2026Enqi Liu, Liyuan Pan, Zhi Gao +2Open-Vocabulary Action RecognitionFog