Meet JEANIE: a Similarity Measure for 3D Skeleton Sequences via Temporal-Viewpoint Alignment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04599v2
• Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:30:37 GMT
• Title: Meet JEANIE: a Similarity Measure for 3D Skeleton Sequences via Temporal-Viewpoint Alignment
• Authors: Lei Wang, Jun Liu, Liang Zheng, Tom Gedeon, Piotr Koniusz,
• Abstract summary: Video sequences exhibit significant variations (undesired effects) of speed of actions, temporal locations, and subjects' poses. We propose Joint tEmporal and cAmera viewpoiNt alIgnmEnt (JEANIE) for sequence pairs.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Video sequences exhibit significant nuisance variations (undesired effects) of speed of actions, temporal locations, and subjects' poses, leading to temporal-viewpoint misalignment when comparing two sets of frames or evaluating the similarity of two sequences. Thus, we propose Joint tEmporal and cAmera viewpoiNt alIgnmEnt (JEANIE) for sequence pairs. In particular, we focus on 3D skeleton sequences whose camera and subjects' poses can be easily manipulated in 3D. We evaluate JEANIE on skeletal Few-shot Action Recognition (FSAR), where matching well temporal blocks (temporal chunks that make up a sequence) of support-query sequence pairs (by factoring out nuisance variations) is essential due to limited samples of novel classes. Given a query sequence, we create its several views by simulating several camera locations. For a support sequence, we match it with view-simulated query sequences, as in the popular Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). Specifically, each support temporal block can be matched to the query temporal block with the same or adjacent (next) temporal index, and adjacent camera views to achieve joint local temporal-viewpoint warping. JEANIE selects the smallest distance among matching paths with different temporal-viewpoint warping patterns, an advantage over DTW which only performs temporal alignment. We also propose an unsupervised FSAR akin to clustering of sequences with JEANIE as a distance measure. JEANIE achieves state-of-the-art results on NTU-60, NTU-120, Kinetics-skeleton and UWA3D Multiview Activity II on supervised and unsupervised FSAR, and their meta-learning inspired fusion.

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