A High Invariance Motion Representation for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

Human action recognition is very important and significant research work in numerous fields of science, for example, human–computer interaction, computer vision and crime analysis. In recent years, relative geometry features have been widely applied to the description of relative relation of body motion. It brings many benefits to action recognition such as clear description, abundant features etc. But the obvious disadvantage is that the extracted features severely rely on the local coordinate system. It is difficult to find a bijection between relative geometry and skeleton motion. To overcome this problem, many previous methods use relative rotation and translation between all skeleton pairs to increase robustness. In this paper we present a new motion representation method. It establishes a motion model based on the relative geometry with the aid of special orthogonal group SO(3). At the same time, we proved that this motion representation method can establish a bijection between relative geometry and motion of skeleton pairs. After the motion representation method in this paper is used, the computation cost of action recognition reduces from the two-way relative motion (motion from A to B and B to A) to one-way relative motion (motion from A to B or B to A) between any skeleton pair, namely, permutation problem Pn2 is simplified into combinatorics problem Cn2. Finally, the experimental results of the three motion datasets are all superior to present skeleton-based action recognition methods.