Survey on Deep Learning for Human Action Recognition

Human action recognition has gained popularity because of its worldwide applications such as video surveillance, video retrieval and human– computer interaction. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of notable advances made by deep neural networks in this field. Firstly, the basic conception of action recognition and its common applications were introduced. Secondly, action recognition was categorized as action classification and action detection according to its respective research goals. And various deep learning frameworks for recognition tasks were discussed in detail and the most challenging datasets and taxonomies were briefly reviewed. Finally, the limitations of the state-of-the-art and promising directions of the research were briefly outlined.