A new representation of skeleton sequences for 3D action recognition

Qiuhong Ke, Mohammed Bennamoun, Senjian An, Ferdous Sohel, Farid Boussaid

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Abstract

This paper presents a new method for 3D action recognition
with skeleton sequences (i.e., 3D trajectories of human
skeleton joints). The proposed method first transforms each
skeleton sequence into three clips each consisting of several
frames for spatial temporal feature learning using deep
neural networks. Each clip is generated from one channel
of the cylindrical coordinates of the skeleton sequence.
Each frame of the generated clips represents the temporal
information of the entire skeleton sequence, and incorporates
one particular spatial relationship between the joints.
The entire clips include multiple frames with different spatial
relationships, which provide useful spatial structural information
of the human skeleton. We propose to use deep
convolutional neural networks to learn long-term temporal
information of the skeleton sequence from the frames of the
generated clips, and then use a Multi-Task Learning Network
(MTLN) to jointly process all frames of the generated
clips in parallel to incorporate spatial structural information
for action recognition. Experimental results clearly
show the effectiveness of the proposed new representation
and feature learning method for 3D action recognition.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings
Subtitle of host publication30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2017
Place of PublicationUnited States
PublisherIEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages4570-4579
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781538604571
ISBN (Print)9781538604571
Publication statusPublished - 6 Nov 2017
Event30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2017 - Honolulu, United States
Duration: 21 Jul 201726 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2017
Volume2017-January

Conference

Conference30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu
Period21/07/1726/07/17

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