The paper entitled “Sequence of the most informative joints (SMIJ): A new representation for human skeletal action recognition” co-authored by CIS and CS PhD alumni Rizwan Chaudhry and CIS and BME Professor René Vidal, Ph.D., has received Elsevier’s 2015 Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI) Best Paper Award. The paper proposed a novel representation for skeleton-based action recognition. Moreover, it introduced a dataset that has been used by many researchers. The paper is also well cited.

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