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Recent years have witnessed great progress in depth sensor technology, which brings huge opportunities for action recognition field. This chapter gives an overview of the recent development of the 3D action recognition approaches, and presents the motivations of the 3D action recognition features, models, and representations in this book.
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Wang, J., Liu, Z., Wu, Y. (2014). Introduction. In: Human Action Recognition with Depth Cameras. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04561-0_1
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