On the Utility of 3D Hand Poses for Action Recognition

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Main Authors: Shamil, Md Salman, Chatterjee, Dibyadip, Sener, Fadime, Ma, Shugao, Yao, Angela
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Published: 2024
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author Shamil, Md Salman
Chatterjee, Dibyadip
Sener, Fadime
Ma, Shugao
Yao, Angela
author_facet Shamil, Md Salman
Chatterjee, Dibyadip
Sener, Fadime
Ma, Shugao
Yao, Angela
contents 3D hand pose is an underexplored modality for action recognition. Poses are compact yet informative and can greatly benefit applications with limited compute budgets. However, poses alone offer an incomplete understanding of actions, as they cannot fully capture objects and environments with which humans interact. We propose HandFormer, a novel multimodal transformer, to efficiently model hand-object interactions. HandFormer combines 3D hand poses at a high temporal resolution for fine-grained motion modeling with sparsely sampled RGB frames for encoding scene semantics. Observing the unique characteristics of hand poses, we temporally factorize hand modeling and represent each joint by its short-term trajectories. This factorized pose representation combined with sparse RGB samples is remarkably efficient and highly accurate. Unimodal HandFormer with only hand poses outperforms existing skeleton-based methods at 5x fewer FLOPs. With RGB, we achieve new state-of-the-art performance on Assembly101 and H2O with significant improvements in egocentric action recognition.
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spellingShingle On the Utility of 3D Hand Poses for Action Recognition
Shamil, Md Salman
Chatterjee, Dibyadip
Sener, Fadime
Ma, Shugao
Yao, Angela
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
3D hand pose is an underexplored modality for action recognition. Poses are compact yet informative and can greatly benefit applications with limited compute budgets. However, poses alone offer an incomplete understanding of actions, as they cannot fully capture objects and environments with which humans interact. We propose HandFormer, a novel multimodal transformer, to efficiently model hand-object interactions. HandFormer combines 3D hand poses at a high temporal resolution for fine-grained motion modeling with sparsely sampled RGB frames for encoding scene semantics. Observing the unique characteristics of hand poses, we temporally factorize hand modeling and represent each joint by its short-term trajectories. This factorized pose representation combined with sparse RGB samples is remarkably efficient and highly accurate. Unimodal HandFormer with only hand poses outperforms existing skeleton-based methods at 5x fewer FLOPs. With RGB, we achieve new state-of-the-art performance on Assembly101 and H2O with significant improvements in egocentric action recognition.
title On the Utility of 3D Hand Poses for Action Recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09805