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Multi-Region based Radial GCN algorithm for Human action Recognition

행동인식을 위한 다중 영역 기반 방사형 GCN 알고리즘

  • 장한별 (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 이칠우 (전남대학교 컴퓨터정보통신공학과)
  • Received : 2022.01.28
  • Accepted : 2022.02.24
  • Published : 2022.02.28
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Abstract

In this paper, multi-region based Radial Graph Convolutional Network (MRGCN) algorithm which can perform end-to-end action recognition using the optical flow and gradient of input image is described. Because this method does not use information of skeleton that is difficult to acquire and complicated to estimate, it can be used in general CCTV environment in which only video camera is used. The novelty of MRGCN is that it expresses the optical flow and gradient of the input image as directional histograms and then converts it into six feature vectors to reduce the amount of computational load and uses a newly developed radial type network model to hierarchically propagate the deformation and shape change of the human body in spatio-temporal space. Another important feature is that the data input areas are arranged being overlapped each other, so that information is not spatially disconnected among input nodes. As a result of performing MRGCN's action recognition performance evaluation experiment for 30 actions, it was possible to obtain Top-1 accuracy of 84.78%, which is superior to the existing GCN-based action recognition method using skeleton data as an input.

본 논문에서는 딥러닝을 기반으로 입력영상의 옵티컬 플로우(optical flow)와 그래디언트(gradient)를 이용하여 종단간 행동인식이 가능한 다중영역 기반 방사성 GCN(MRGCN: Multi-region based Radial Graph Convolutional Network) 알고리즘에 대해 기술한다. 이 방법은 데이터 취득이 어렵고 계산이 복잡한 스켈레톤 정보를 사용하지 않기 때문에 카메라만을 주로 사용하는 일반 CCTV 환경에도 활용이 가능하다. MRGCN의 특징은 입력영상의 옵티컬플로우와 그래디언트를 방향성 히스토그램으로 표현한 후 계산량 축소를 위해 6개의 특징 벡터로 변환하여 사용한다는 것과 시공간 영역에서 인체의 움직임과 형상변화를 계층적으로 전파시키기 위해 새롭게 고안한 방사형 구조의 네트워크 모델을 사용한다는 것이다. 또 데이터 입력 영역을 서로 겹치도록 배치하여 각 노드 간에 공간적으로 단절이 없는 정보를 입력으로 사용한 것도 중요한 특징이다. 30가지의 행동에 대해 성능평가 실험을 수행한 결과 스켈레톤 데이터를 입력으로 사용한 기존의 GCN기반 행동인식과 동등한 84.78%의 Top-1 정확도를 얻을 수 있었다. 이 결과로부터 취득이 어려운 스켈레톤 정보를 사용하지 않는 MRGCN이 복잡한 행동인식이 필요한 실제 상황에서 더욱 실용적인 방법임을 알 수 있었다.

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Acknowledgement

본 연구는 문화체육관광부 및 한국컨텐츠진흥원의 2021년도 문화기술연구개발 지원사업으로 수행되었음. (R2020060002).

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