HICO: A Benchmark for Recognizing Human-Object Interactions in Images

Yu-Wei Chao, Zhan Wang, Yugeng He, Jiaxuan Wang, Jia Deng; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015, pp. 1017-1025

Abstract


We introduce a new benchmark "Humans Interacting with Common Objects" (HICO) for recognizing human-object interactions (HOI). We demonstrate the key features of HICO: a diverse set of interactions with common object categories, a list of well-defined, sense-based HOI categories, and an exhaustive labeling of co-occurring interactions with an object category in each image. We perform an in-depth analysis of representative current approaches and show that DNNs enjoy a significant edge. In addition, we show that semantic knowledge can significantly improve HOI recognition, especially for uncommon categories.

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@InProceedings{Chao_2015_ICCV,
author = {Chao, Yu-Wei and Wang, Zhan and He, Yugeng and Wang, Jiaxuan and Deng, Jia},
title = {HICO: A Benchmark for Recognizing Human-Object Interactions in Images},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {December},
year = {2015}
}