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<p>Recently, the method of using graph neural network based on skeletons for action recognition has become more and more popular, due to the fact that a skeleton can carry very intuitive and rich action information, without being affected by background, light and other factors. The spatial–temporal graph convolutional neural network (ST-GCN) is a dynamic skeleton model that automatically learns spatial–temporal model from data, which not only has stronger expression ability, but also has stronger generalisation ability, showing remarkable results on public data sets. However, the ST-GCN network directly learns the information of adjacent nodes (local information), and is insufficient in learning the relations of non-adjacent nodes (global information), such as clapping action that requires learning the related information of non-adjacent nodes. Therefore, this paper proposes an ST-GCN based on node attention (NA-STGCN), so as to solve the problem of insufficient global information in ST-GCN by introducing node attention module to explicitly model the interdependence between global nodes. The experimental results on the NTU-RGB+D set show that the node attention module can effectively improve the accuracy and feature representation ability of the existing algorithms, and obviously improve the recognition effect of the actions that need global information.</p>
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Recently, the method of using graph neural network based on skeletons for action recognition has become more and more popular, due to the fact that a skeleton can carry very intuitive and rich action information, without being affected by background, light and other factors. The spatial–temporal graph convolutional neural network (ST-GCN) is a dynamic skeleton model that automatically learns spatial–temporal model from data, which not only has stronger expression ability, but also has stronger generalisation ability, showing remarkable results on public data sets. However, the ST-GCN network directly learns the information of adjacent nodes (local information), and is insufficient in learning the relations of non-adjacent nodes (global information), such as clapping action that requires learning the related information of non-adjacent nodes. Therefore, this paper proposes an ST-GCN based on node attention (NA-STGCN), so as to solve the problem of insufficient global information in ST-GCN by introducing node attention module to explicitly model the interdependence between global nodes. The experimental results on the NTU-RGB+D set show that the node attention module can effectively improve the accuracy and feature representation ability of the existing algorithms, and obviously improve the recognition effect of the actions that need global information.

Spatial–temporal graph neural network based on node attention

School of Electronic and Information Engineering

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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Recently, the method of using graph neural network based on skeletons for action recognition has become more and more popular, due to the fact that a skeleton...

Spatial–temporal graph neural network based on node attention

Published Online: Apr 08, 2022

Page range: 703 - 712

Received: May 23, 2021

Accepted: Sep 27, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2022.1.00005

Keywords
Action recognition, skeletons, spatial–temporal graph convolution, attention mechanism

© 2021 Qiang Li et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Spatial–temporal graph neural network based on node attention

Published Online: Apr 08, 2022

Page range: 703 - 712

Received: May 23, 2021

Accepted: Sep 27, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2022.1.00005

KeywordsAction recognition, skeletons, spatial–temporal graph convolution, attention mechanism

© 2021 Qiang Li et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Action recognition, skeletons, spatial–temporal graph convolution, attention mechanism