Dual Space Representation Learning for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

Abstract

Skeleton-based action recognition is crucial for machine intelligence. Current methods generally learn from 3D articulated motion sequences in the straightforward Euclidean space. Yet, the vanilla Euclidean space may not be the optimal choice for modeling the intricate correlations among human body joints. This challenge arises from the non-Euclidean nature of human anatomy, where joint correlations often vary non-linearly during movement. To address this, we propose a dual space representation learning method. Specifically, we represent the motion sequences in Hyperbolic space, leveraging its intrinsic properties to capture the non-Euclidean latent anatomy of human motions. We then incorporate the motion features from both Hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces, allowing us to precisely model the non-linear joint correlations while effectively sketching human poses. The proposed method empirically achieves state-of-the-art performance on the NTU RGB+D 60, NTURGB+D 120, and NW-UCLA datasets.