Advancements in Human Movement Analysis and Recognition

The field of human movement analysis and recognition is rapidly advancing, with a focus on developing innovative methods for recognizing and classifying various human movements, such as micro-gestures, sports actions, and calisthenics skills. Researchers are exploring the use of multimodal fusion frameworks, data augmentation, and spatial-temporal attention to enhance the accuracy of movement recognition systems. Additionally, there is a growing interest in applying human movement analysis to real-world applications, such as sports analytics, health monitoring, and human-computer interaction. Noteworthy papers include MM-Gesture, which achieved superior performance in micro-gesture classification, and Efficient Calisthenics Skills Classification, which proposed a direct approach to calisthenics skill recognition using depth estimation and athlete patch retrieval. Online Micro-gesture Recognition also achieved state-of-the-art results in the Micro-gesture Online Recognition track, while EHPE proposed a novel segmented architecture for enhanced hand pose estimation. Predicting Soccer Penalty Kick Direction Using Human Action Recognition presented a novel dataset and a deep learning classifier to predict shot direction based on pre-kick player movements.

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MM-Gesture: Towards Precise Micro-Gesture Recognition through Multimodal Fusion

Push or Light: Nudging Standing to Break Prolonged Sitting

Online Micro-gesture Recognition Using Data Augmentation and Spatial-Temporal Attention

EHPE: A Segmented Architecture for Enhanced Hand Pose Estimation

Women Sport Actions Dataset for Visual Classification Using Small Scale Training Data

Posture-Driven Action Intent Inference for Playing style and Fatigue Assessment

Calisthenics Skills Temporal Video Segmentation

Efficient Calisthenics Skills Classification through Foreground Instance Selection and Depth Estimation

Transforming Football Data into Object-centric Event Logs with Spatial Context Information

Predicting Soccer Penalty Kick Direction Using Human Action Recognition

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