Action dataset — A survey

Human action understanding and recognition have various demands for different applications in the field of computer vision and human-machine interaction. Due to these issues, more than a decade, extensive researches are going on in this arena - to recognize various actions and activities. Researchers have been exploiting various action datasets and some of them become prominent. Though there are some good datasets, unfortunately, to have a strong survey on these datasets has been a long due. This paper attempts this and presents the key datasets and analyzes them in different perspectives.