Title
3D CNNs on Distance Matrices for Human Action Recognition.
Abstract
In this paper we are interested in recognizing human actions from sequences of 3D skeleton data. For this purpose we combine a 3D Convolutional Neural Network with body representations based on Euclidean Distance Matrices (EDMs), which have been recently shown to be very effective to capture the geometric structure of the human pose. One inherent limitation of the EDMs, however, is that they are defined up to a permutation of the skeleton joints, i.e., randomly shuffling the ordering of the joints yields many different representations. In oder to address this issue we introduce a novel architecture that simultaneously, and in an end-to-end manner, learns an optimal transformation of the joints, while optimizing the rest of parameters of the convolutional network. The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art results on 3 benchmarks, including the recent NTU RGB-D dataset, for which we improve on previous LSTM-based methods by more than 10 percentage points, also surpassing other CNN-based methods while using almost 1000 times fewer parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3123266.3123299
MM '17: ACM Multimedia Conference Mountain View California USA October, 2017
Field
DocType
ISBN
Computer vision,Activity recognition,Distance matrices in phylogeny,Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Matrix (mathematics),Permutation,Euclidean distance,Shuffling,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning
Conference
978-1-4503-4906-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.38
22
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alejandro Hernandez Ruiz140.38
Lorenzo Porzi212011.79
Samuel Rota Bulò356433.69
Francesc Moreno-Noguer4164793.46