Learning Human-Object Interactions by Graph Parsing Neural Networks

Siyuan Qi, Wenguan Wang, Baoxiong Jia, Jianbing Shen, Song-Chun Zhu; Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018, pp. 401-417

Abstract


This paper addresses the task of detecting and recognizing human-object interactions (HOI) in images and videos. We introduce the Graph Parsing Neural Network (GPNN), a framework that incorporates structural knowledge while being differentiable end-to-end. For a given scene, GPNN infers a parse graph that includes i) the HOI graph structure represented by an adjacency matrix, and ii) the node labels. Within a message passing inference framework, GPNN iteratively computes the adjacency matrices and node labels. We extensively evaluate our model on three HOI detection benchmarks on images and videos: HICO-DET, V-COCO, and CAD-120 datasets. Our approach significantly outperforms state-of-art methods, verifying that GPNN is scalable to large datasets and applies to spatial-temporal settings.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Qi_2018_ECCV,
author = {Qi, Siyuan and Wang, Wenguan and Jia, Baoxiong and Shen, Jianbing and Zhu, Song-Chun},
title = {Learning Human-Object Interactions by Graph Parsing Neural Networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
month = {September},
year = {2018}
}