Zero-shot Skeleton Action Recognition (ZSAR) remains ambiguous when unseen actions share similar skeleton joint dynamics but differ in objects or scene context. RGB provides these missing cues, yet existing multimodal methods typically maintain independent skeleton and RGB scoring branches and fuse their outputs.
The paper introduces Skeleton-Language feature Pooling Switching, a weakly‑supervised vision‑language pretraining strategy for skeleton‑based zero‑shot spatio‑temporal action localization. It replaces video‑level pooling with instance‑level feature computation during inference, enabling the model to estimate unseen actions without costly annotations. Additionally, Scene‑Mixed Discriminative Contrastive Learning is proposed to separate actions at the instance level within mixed scenes using a MIL framework, and experiments on four public datasets confirm the method’s effectiveness.
By Koshiro Nagano, Fumiaki Sato, Ryo Hachiuma, Kazuki Tsutsukawa, Taiki Sekii
arXiv:2607. 00716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skeleton-based action recognition has achieved remarkable success by exploiting joint coordinates and their topological connections, yet prevailing methods overwhelmingly assume complete and clean skeleton inputs.
By Yingjie Dai, Tianyang Xu, Yanglin Deng, Xiao-Jun Wu, Josef Kittler
Diffusion-based text-to-motion models synthesize realistic human motions but often exhibit semantic drift from the input text. Motion is inherently temporal, especially in compositional and long-duration sequences that require semantic consistency across multiple action segments and smooth kinematic transitions throughout the trajectory.
arXiv:2607. 17342v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding physical human-robot and human-human interactions is a challenging yet emerging topic in 3D vision.
By Yuhang Wen, Mengyuan Liu, Zixuan Tang, Junsong Yuan, Sirui Li, Beichen Ding
The paper introduces Timo, a kinematics-aware multimodal diffusion transformer designed for human motion generation. Timo employs fully shared multimodal attention, flow matching, and geometric/rotational-kinematics supervision to better coordinate articulated motion, and uses a two-stage curriculum to align motion with text captions. The authors also present a new benchmark of 40,025 clips from six datasets, showing that Timo outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods, achieving a 40.8% relative improvement over Kimodo on average.
By Zhao Wang, Jiangtao Hu, Jack Yu, Tao Yu