Human Action Recognition of Spatiotemporal Parameters for Skeleton Sequences Using MTLN Feature Learning Framework

Abstract

Human action recognition (HAR) by skeleton data is considered a potential research aspect in computer vision. Three-dimensional HAR with skeleton data has been used commonly because of its effective and efficient results. Several models have been developed for learning spatiotemporal parameters from skeleton sequences. However, two critical problems exist: (1) previous skeleton sequences were created by connecting different joints with a static order; (2) earlier methods were not efficient enough to focus on valuable joints. Specifically, this study aimed to (1) demonstrate the ability of convolutional neural networks to learn spatiotemporal parameters of skeleton sequences from different frames of human action, and (2) to combine the process of all frames created by different human actions and fit in the spatial structure information necessary for action recognition, using multi-task learning networks (MTLNs). The results were significantly improved compared with existing models by executing the proposed model on an NTU RGB+D dataset, an SYSU dataset, and an SBU Kinetic Interaction dataset. We further implemented our model on noisy expected poses from subgroups of the Kinetics dataset and the UCF101 dataset. The experimental results also showed significant improvement using our proposed model.

Keywords

• human action recognition (HAR)
• skeleton data
• spatiotemporal
• multi-task learning network (MTLN)
• convolutional neural network (CNN)