Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Spatial-Temporal Consistency for Sign Language Recognition

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Main Authors: Zhao, Weichao, Zhou, Wengang, Hu, Hezhen, Wang, Min, Li, Houqiang
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author Zhao, Weichao
Zhou, Wengang
Hu, Hezhen
Wang, Min
Li, Houqiang
author_facet Zhao, Weichao
Zhou, Wengang
Hu, Hezhen
Wang, Min
Li, Houqiang
contents Recently, there have been efforts to improve the performance in sign language recognition by designing self-supervised learning methods. However, these methods capture limited information from sign pose data in a frame-wise learning manner, leading to sub-optimal solutions. To this end, we propose a simple yet effective self-supervised contrastive learning framework to excavate rich context via spatial-temporal consistency from two distinct perspectives and learn instance discriminative representation for sign language recognition. On one hand, since the semantics of sign language are expressed by the cooperation of fine-grained hands and coarse-grained trunks, we utilize both granularity information and encode them into latent spaces. The consistency between hand and trunk features is constrained to encourage learning consistent representation of instance samples. On the other hand, inspired by the complementary property of motion and joint modalities, we first introduce first-order motion information into sign language modeling. Additionally, we further bridge the interaction between the embedding spaces of both modalities, facilitating bidirectional knowledge transfer to enhance sign language representation. Our method is evaluated with extensive experiments on four public benchmarks, and achieves new state-of-the-art performance with a notable margin. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/sakura/Code.
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spellingShingle Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Spatial-Temporal Consistency for Sign Language Recognition
Zhao, Weichao
Zhou, Wengang
Hu, Hezhen
Wang, Min
Li, Houqiang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recently, there have been efforts to improve the performance in sign language recognition by designing self-supervised learning methods. However, these methods capture limited information from sign pose data in a frame-wise learning manner, leading to sub-optimal solutions. To this end, we propose a simple yet effective self-supervised contrastive learning framework to excavate rich context via spatial-temporal consistency from two distinct perspectives and learn instance discriminative representation for sign language recognition. On one hand, since the semantics of sign language are expressed by the cooperation of fine-grained hands and coarse-grained trunks, we utilize both granularity information and encode them into latent spaces. The consistency between hand and trunk features is constrained to encourage learning consistent representation of instance samples. On the other hand, inspired by the complementary property of motion and joint modalities, we first introduce first-order motion information into sign language modeling. Additionally, we further bridge the interaction between the embedding spaces of both modalities, facilitating bidirectional knowledge transfer to enhance sign language representation. Our method is evaluated with extensive experiments on four public benchmarks, and achieves new state-of-the-art performance with a notable margin. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/sakura/Code.
title Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Spatial-Temporal Consistency for Sign Language Recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10501