Title
Multi-scale features based interpersonal relation recognition using higher-order graph neural network
Abstract
Interpersonal relation plays an essential role to gain understandings on how people interact with each other. In computer vision, interpersonal relations provide vital information to interpret people’s behaviors. However, the existing research has either omitted the interaction information between subjects or the structural information in the images. In this paper, we propose a new architecture to reason interpersonal relations based on higher-order graph networks and multi-scale features. First, we extract features of the whole images, the facial features, and the union region of face pairs. Apart from the pixel-wise features, we also consider the positional features of face-to-face pairs and the spatial scene cues. Higher-order Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) were employed to map out the interpersonal relations based on the feature extracted. Experimental results show that the proposed Higher-order Graph Neural Networks with multi-scale features can effectively recognize the social relations in images with over 5% improvement in absolute balanced accuracy compared with the state-of-the-art work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.neucom.2021.05.097
Neurocomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Social relation recognition,Higher-order graph neural network,Multi-scale features,Graph reasoning,Interpersonal relation reasoning
Journal
456
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0925-2312
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianjun Gao110.37
Linbo Qing23814.63
Lindong Li310.37
Yongqiang Cheng413329.99
Yonghong Peng510.37