ScriptHOI: Learning Scripted State Transitions for Open-Vocabulary Human-Object Interaction Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05057v2
• Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 02:15:13 GMT
• Title: ScriptHOI: Learning Scripted State Transitions for Open-Vocabulary Human-Object Interaction Detection
• Abstract summary: Open-vocabulary human-object interaction (HOI) detection requires recognizing interaction phrases that may not appear as categories during training.<n>Recent vision-language HOI detectors improve semantic transfer by matching human-object features with text embeddings.<n>We propose ScriptHOI, a structured framework that represents each interaction phrase as a soft scripted state transition.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Open-vocabulary human-object interaction (HOI) detection requires recognizing interaction phrases that may not appear as annotated categories during training. Recent vision-language HOI detectors improve semantic transfer by matching human-object features with text embeddings, but their predictions are often dominated by object affordance and phrase-level co-occurrence. As a result, a model may predict \textit{cut cake} from the presence of a knife and a cake without verifying whether the hand, tool, target, contact pattern, and object state jointly support the action. We propose \textbf{ScriptHOI}, a structured framework that represents each interaction phrase as a soft scripted state transition. Rather than treating a phrase as a single class token, ScriptHOI decomposes it into body-role, contact, geometry, affordance, motion, and object-state slots. A visual state tokenizer parses each detected human-object pair into corresponding state tokens, and a slot-wise matcher estimates both script coverage and script conflict. These two quantities calibrate HOI logits, expose missing visual evidence, and provide training constraints for incomplete annotations. To avoid suppressing valid but unannotated interactions, we further introduce interval partial-label learning, which constrains unannotated candidates with script-derived lower and upper probability bounds instead of assigning closed-world negatives. A counterfactual script contrast loss swaps individual script slots to discourage object-only shortcuts. Experiments on HICO-DET, V-COCO, and open-vocabulary HOI splits show that ScriptHOI improves rare and unseen interaction recognition while substantially reducing affordance-conflict false positives.

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