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A Discriminative STGCN for Skeleton Oriented Action Recognition

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Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2020)

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Action recognition plays a fundamental role in many applications and researches, including man-machine interaction, medical rehabilitation and physical training. However, existing methods realize action recognition mainly relies on the background. This paper attempts to recognize the actions only through the motions. Hence, skeleton information is utilized to realize action recognition. To fully utilize the skeleton information, this paper proposes a discriminative spatio-temporal graph convolutional network (DSTGCN) for background independent action recognition. DSTGCN not only pays attention to the spatio-temporal properties of the motions, but focuses on the inner-class distributions of the actions. Experiments result on two motion oriented datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of Peoples Republic of China (61672130, 61972064), The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT19RC(3)012, DUT20RC(5)010) and LiaoNing Revitalization Talents Program (XLYC1806006).

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Feng, L., Yuan, Q., Liu, Y., Huang, Q., Liu, S., Li, Y. (2020). A Discriminative STGCN for Skeleton Oriented Action Recognition. In: Yang, H., Pasupa, K., Leung, A.CS., Kwok, J.T., Chan, J.H., King, I. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1333. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63823-8_1

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