Human Action Recognition with Attribute Regularization

Abstract

Recently, attributes have been introduced to help object classification. Multi-task learning is an effective methodology to achieve this goal, which shares low-level features between attribute and object classifiers. Yet such a method neglects the constraints that attributes impose on classes which may fail to constrain the semantic relationship between the attribute and object classifiers. In this paper, we explicitly consider such attribute-object relationship, and correspondingly, we modify the multi-task learning model by adding attribute regularization. In this way, the learned model not only shares the low-level features, but also gets regularized according to the semantic constrains. Our method is verified on two challenging datasets (KTH and Olympic Sports), and the experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves better results than previous methods in human action recognition.