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Main Authors: Liu, Cuiwei, Jiang, Youzhi, Du, Chong, Li, Zhaokui
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18206
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author Liu, Cuiwei
Jiang, Youzhi
Du, Chong
Li, Zhaokui
author_facet Liu, Cuiwei
Jiang, Youzhi
Du, Chong
Li, Zhaokui
contents Skeleton-based action recognition is vital for comprehending human-centric videos and has applications in diverse domains. One of the challenges of skeleton-based action recognition is dealing with low-quality data, such as skeletons that have missing or inaccurate joints. This paper addresses the issue of enhancing action recognition using low-quality skeletons through a general knowledge distillation framework. The proposed framework employs a teacher-student model setup, where a teacher model trained on high-quality skeletons guides the learning of a student model that handles low-quality skeletons. To bridge the gap between heterogeneous high-quality and lowquality skeletons, we present a novel part-based skeleton matching strategy, which exploits shared body parts to facilitate local action pattern learning. An action-specific part matrix is developed to emphasize critical parts for different actions, enabling the student model to distill discriminative part-level knowledge. A novel part-level multi-sample contrastive loss achieves knowledge transfer from multiple high-quality skeletons to low-quality ones, which enables the proposed knowledge distillation framework to include training low-quality skeletons that lack corresponding high-quality matches. Comprehensive experiments conducted on the NTU-RGB+D, Penn Action, and SYSU 3D HOI datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed knowledge distillation framework.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Action Recognition from Low-Quality Skeleton Data via Part-Level Knowledge Distillation
Liu, Cuiwei
Jiang, Youzhi
Du, Chong
Li, Zhaokui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Skeleton-based action recognition is vital for comprehending human-centric videos and has applications in diverse domains. One of the challenges of skeleton-based action recognition is dealing with low-quality data, such as skeletons that have missing or inaccurate joints. This paper addresses the issue of enhancing action recognition using low-quality skeletons through a general knowledge distillation framework. The proposed framework employs a teacher-student model setup, where a teacher model trained on high-quality skeletons guides the learning of a student model that handles low-quality skeletons. To bridge the gap between heterogeneous high-quality and lowquality skeletons, we present a novel part-based skeleton matching strategy, which exploits shared body parts to facilitate local action pattern learning. An action-specific part matrix is developed to emphasize critical parts for different actions, enabling the student model to distill discriminative part-level knowledge. A novel part-level multi-sample contrastive loss achieves knowledge transfer from multiple high-quality skeletons to low-quality ones, which enables the proposed knowledge distillation framework to include training low-quality skeletons that lack corresponding high-quality matches. Comprehensive experiments conducted on the NTU-RGB+D, Penn Action, and SYSU 3D HOI datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed knowledge distillation framework.
title Enhancing Action Recognition from Low-Quality Skeleton Data via Part-Level Knowledge Distillation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18206