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Multi-GAT: A Graphical Attention-based Hierarchical Multimodal Representation Learning Approach for Human Activity Recognition

1 Apr 2021IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS 2021 4archive 2025-07-28

Md Mofijul Islam, Tariq Iqbal

Recognizing human activities is one of the crucial capabilities that a robot needs to have to be useful around people. Although modern robots are equipped with various types of sensors, human activity recognition (HAR) still remains a challenging problem, particularly in the presence of noisy sensor data. In this work, we introduce a multimodal graphical attention-based HAR approach, called Multi-GAT, which hierarchically learns complementary multimodal features. We develop a multimodal mixture-of-experts model to disentangle and extract salient modality-specific features that enable feature interactions. Additionally, we introduce a novel message-passing based graphical attention approach to capture cross-modal relation for extracting complementary multimodal features. The experimental results on two multimodal human activity datasets suggest that Multi-GAT outperformed state-of-the-art HAR algorithms across all datasets and metrics tested. Finally, the experimental results with noisy sensor data indicate that Multi-GAT consistently outperforms all the evaluated baselines. The robust performance suggests that Multi-GAT can enable seamless human-robot collaboration in noisy human environments.

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Activity RecognitionHuman Activity RecognitionMixture-of-ExpertsMultimodal Activity RecognitionRepresentation Learning

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Multimodal Activity Recognition MMAct Multi-GAT F1-Score (Cross-Session) 91.48 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Multimodal Activity Recognition MMAct Multi-GAT F1-Score (Cross-Subject) 75.24 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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