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  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning

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  • Human action recognition (HAR) is crucial for computer vision applications.
  • Existing surveys lack a systematic overview of HAR methods.
  • Previous research often focused on specific data types (depth, 3D skeleton) or tasks (walking recognition).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a thorough and systematic review of human action recognition methods.
  • To provide a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in the field.
  • To offer recommendations for future research in HAR.

Main Methods:

  • Review of hand-designed action features in RGB and depth data.
  • Analysis of deep learning-based action feature representation methods.
  • Examination of human-object interaction recognition techniques.
  • Overview of prominent action detection methods.

Main Results:

  • Identified key trends in feature engineering for HAR.
  • Highlighted the impact of deep learning on action representation.
  • Summarized progress in recognizing complex human-object interactions.
  • Detailed the state-of-the-art in action detection.

Conclusions:

  • A systematic survey of human action recognition is needed and provided.
  • The review covers traditional, deep learning, and interaction-based methods.
  • This paper serves as a vital reference for HAR research.