Applications of ICTs and Action Recognitionfor Construction Workers

Human action recognition has gained considerable attention because of its wide variety of potential applications (e.g., entertainment, rehabilitation, robotics, and security) in the computer vision sector. During the last decades, rapid advances have been made, investigating various approaches such as scene interpretation, holistic body-based recognition, body partbased recognition, and action hierarchy-based recognition [1]. Recognizing the activities of workers enables measurement and control of safety, productivity, and quality at construction sites, and automated activity recognition can enhance the efficiency of the measurement system [2]. Novel information and communication technologies (ICTs) have undergone unprecedented advancements in the recent decades and are transforming lives as well as academic research.

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