Revealing Key Details to See Differences: A Novel Prototypical Perspective for Skeleton-based Action Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18941v1
• Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 06:18:31 GMT
• Title: Revealing Key Details to See Differences: A Novel Prototypical Perspective for Skeleton-based Action Recognition
• Authors: Hongda Liu, Yunfan Liu, Min Ren, Hao Wang, Yunlong Wang, Zhenan Sun,
• Abstract summary: In skeleton-based action recognition, a key challenge is distinguishing between actions with similar trajectories of joints. We introduce ProtoGCN, a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN)-based model that breaks down the dynamics of entire skeleton sequences into a combination of learnable prototypes. By contrasting the reconstruction of prototypes, ProtoGCN can effectively identify and enhance the discriminative representation of similar actions.
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• Abstract: In skeleton-based action recognition, a key challenge is distinguishing between actions with similar trajectories of joints due to the lack of image-level details in skeletal representations. Recognizing that the differentiation of similar actions relies on subtle motion details in specific body parts, we direct our approach to focus on the fine-grained motion of local skeleton components. To this end, we introduce ProtoGCN, a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN)-based model that breaks down the dynamics of entire skeleton sequences into a combination of learnable prototypes representing core motion patterns of action units. By contrasting the reconstruction of prototypes, ProtoGCN can effectively identify and enhance the discriminative representation of similar actions. Without bells and whistles, ProtoGCN achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmark datasets, including NTU RGB+D, NTU RGB+D 120, Kinetics-Skeleton, and FineGYM, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method. The code is available at https://github.com/firework8/ProtoGCN.

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