Frequency-Semantic Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Zero-Shot Skeleton-based Action Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22179v1
• Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:44:08 GMT
• Title: Frequency-Semantic Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Zero-Shot Skeleton-based Action Recognition
• Authors: Wenhan Wu, Zhishuai Guo, Chen Chen, Hongfei Xue, Aidong Lu,
• Abstract summary: Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition aims to identify actions beyond the categories encountered during training.<n>Previous approaches have primarily focused on aligning visual and semantic representations.<n>We propose a Frequency-Semantic Enhanced Variational Autoencoder (FS-VAE) to explore the skeleton semantic representation learning with frequency decomposition.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition aims to develop models capable of identifying actions beyond the categories encountered during training. Previous approaches have primarily focused on aligning visual and semantic representations but often overlooked the importance of fine-grained action patterns in the semantic space (e.g., the hand movements in drinking water and brushing teeth). To address these limitations, we propose a Frequency-Semantic Enhanced Variational Autoencoder (FS-VAE) to explore the skeleton semantic representation learning with frequency decomposition. FS-VAE consists of three key components: 1) a frequency-based enhancement module with high- and low-frequency adjustments to enrich the skeletal semantics learning and improve the robustness of zero-shot action recognition; 2) a semantic-based action description with multilevel alignment to capture both local details and global correspondence, effectively bridging the semantic gap and compensating for the inherent loss of information in skeleton sequences; 3) a calibrated cross-alignment loss that enables valid skeleton-text pairs to counterbalance ambiguous ones, mitigating discrepancies and ambiguities in skeleton and text features, thereby ensuring robust alignment. Evaluations on the benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, validating that frequency-enhanced semantic features enable robust differentiation of visually and semantically similar action clusters, improving zero-shot action recognition.

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