HaHeAE: Learning Generalisable Joint Representations of Human Hand and Head Movements in Extended Reality

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hu, Zhiming, Zhang, Guanhua, Yin, Zheming, Haeufle, Daniel, Schmitt, Syn, Bulling, Andreas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866916738983002112
author Hu, Zhiming
Zhang, Guanhua
Yin, Zheming
Haeufle, Daniel
Schmitt, Syn
Bulling, Andreas
author_facet Hu, Zhiming
Zhang, Guanhua
Yin, Zheming
Haeufle, Daniel
Schmitt, Syn
Bulling, Andreas
contents Human hand and head movements are the most pervasive input modalities in extended reality (XR) and are significant for a wide range of applications. However, prior works on hand and head modelling in XR only explored a single modality or focused on specific applications. We present HaHeAE - a novel self-supervised method for learning generalisable joint representations of hand and head movements in XR. At the core of our method is an autoencoder (AE) that uses a graph convolutional network-based semantic encoder and a diffusion-based stochastic encoder to learn the joint semantic and stochastic representations of hand-head movements. It also features a diffusion-based decoder to reconstruct the original signals. Through extensive evaluations on three public XR datasets, we show that our method 1) significantly outperforms commonly used self-supervised methods by up to 74.0% in terms of reconstruction quality and is generalisable across users, activities, and XR environments, 2) enables new applications, including interpretable hand-head cluster identification and variable hand-head movement generation, and 3) can serve as an effective feature extractor for downstream tasks. Together, these results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method and underline the potential of self-supervised methods for jointly modelling hand-head behaviours in extended reality.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2410_16430
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle HaHeAE: Learning Generalisable Joint Representations of Human Hand and Head Movements in Extended Reality
Hu, Zhiming
Zhang, Guanhua
Yin, Zheming
Haeufle, Daniel
Schmitt, Syn
Bulling, Andreas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human hand and head movements are the most pervasive input modalities in extended reality (XR) and are significant for a wide range of applications. However, prior works on hand and head modelling in XR only explored a single modality or focused on specific applications. We present HaHeAE - a novel self-supervised method for learning generalisable joint representations of hand and head movements in XR. At the core of our method is an autoencoder (AE) that uses a graph convolutional network-based semantic encoder and a diffusion-based stochastic encoder to learn the joint semantic and stochastic representations of hand-head movements. It also features a diffusion-based decoder to reconstruct the original signals. Through extensive evaluations on three public XR datasets, we show that our method 1) significantly outperforms commonly used self-supervised methods by up to 74.0% in terms of reconstruction quality and is generalisable across users, activities, and XR environments, 2) enables new applications, including interpretable hand-head cluster identification and variable hand-head movement generation, and 3) can serve as an effective feature extractor for downstream tasks. Together, these results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method and underline the potential of self-supervised methods for jointly modelling hand-head behaviours in extended reality.
title HaHeAE: Learning Generalisable Joint Representations of Human Hand and Head Movements in Extended Reality
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16430