Balanced Representation Learning for Long-tailed Skeleton-based Action Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14024v1
• Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 07:25:51 GMT
• Title: Balanced Representation Learning for Long-tailed Skeleton-based Action Recognition
• Authors: Hongda Liu, Yunlong Wang, Min Ren, Junxing Hu, Zhengquan Luo, Guangqi Hou, Zhenan Sun
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel balanced representation learning method to address the long-tailed problem in action recognition. We design a detached action-aware learning schedule to further mitigate the bias in the representation space. The proposed method is validated on four skeleton datasets.
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• Abstract: Skeleton-based action recognition has recently made significant progress. However, data imbalance is still a great challenge in real-world scenarios. The performance of current action recognition algorithms declines sharply when training data suffers from heavy class imbalance. The imbalanced data actually degrades the representations learned by these methods and becomes the bottleneck for action recognition. How to learn unbiased representations from imbalanced action data is the key to long-tailed action recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel balanced representation learning method to address the long-tailed problem in action recognition. Firstly, a spatial-temporal action exploration strategy is presented to expand the sample space effectively, generating more valuable samples in a rebalanced manner. Secondly, we design a detached action-aware learning schedule to further mitigate the bias in the representation space. The schedule detaches the representation learning of tail classes from training and proposes an action-aware loss to impose more effective constraints. Additionally, a skip-modal representation is proposed to provide complementary structural information. The proposed method is validated on four skeleton datasets, NTU RGB+D 60, NTU RGB+D 120, NW-UCLA, and Kinetics. It not only achieves consistently large improvement compared to the state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, but also demonstrates a superior generalization capacity through extensive experiments. Our code is available at https://github.com/firework8/BRL.

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