arrow
Return

Selective directed graph convolutional network for skeleton-based action recognition

delete2025-04-01
delete0
PRE
AI
C
Chengyuan Ke
S
Sheng Liu
Y
Yuan Feng
S
Shengyong Chen *
DOI:10.1016/j.patrec.2025.02.020delete
deleteOriginal
deleteOriginal request for help
deleteShare
deleteSave
Abstract

Abstract

En 中文
Skeleton-based action recognition has gained significant attention due to the lightweight and robust nature of skeleton representations. However, the feature extraction process often misses subtle action cues, making it challenging to differentiate between similar actions and leading to misclassification. To address this issue, we propose a Selective Directed Graph Convolutional Network (SD-GCN) that decouples features at varying granularities to enhance sensitivity to subtle actions. Specifically, we introduce a Dynamic Topology Generation (DTG) module, which dynamically constructs anew topological structure by focusing on key local joints. This reduces the influence of dominant global features on subtle ones, thereby amplifying fine-grained motion features and improving the distinction between similar actions. Additionally, we present an Attention-guided Group Fusion (AGF) module that selectively evaluates and fuses local motion features of the skeleton while incorporating global skeletal features to capture contextual relationships among all joints. We validated the effectiveness of our method on three benchmark datasets, and experimental results demonstrate that our model not only outperforms existing methods in terms of accuracy but also excels at distinguishing similar actions.
Keywords:
Graph convolutional network
Action recognition
Human skeleton
Similar action

Journal

Pattern Recognition Letters cover
Pattern Recognition Letters
IF:
3.3
Papers:
7.9K
Citations:
1.6W

Organization

Z
zhejiang university of technology
Scholars:
3.3W
Papers: 2.0W
Citations: 22
T
Tianjin University of Technology
Scholars:
8.8K
Papers: 5.9K
Citations: 1.0W