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Pose-based Modular Network for Human-Object Interaction Detection

5 Aug 2020arXiv:2008.02042archive 2025-07-28

Zhijun Liang, Junfa Liu, Yisheng Guan, Juan Rojas

Human-object interaction(HOI) detection is a critical task in scene understanding. The goal is to infer the triplet <subject, predicate, object> in a scene. In this work, we note that the human pose itself as well as the relative spatial information of the human pose with respect to the target object can provide informative cues for HOI detection. We contribute a Pose-based Modular Network (PMN) which explores the absolute pose features and relative spatial pose features to improve HOI detection and is fully compatible with existing networks. Our module consists of a branch that first processes the relative spatial pose features of each joint independently. Another branch updates the absolute pose features via fully connected graph structures. The processed pose features are then fed into an action classifier. To evaluate our proposed method, we combine the module with the state-of-the-art model named VS-GATs and obtain significant improvement on two public benchmarks: V-COCO and HICO-DET, which shows its efficacy and flexibility. Code is available at \url{https://github.com/birlrobotics/PMN}.

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Human-Object Interaction DetectionObjectScene Understanding

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Human-Object Interaction Detection HICO-DET PMN mAP 21.21 #47 of 55 Archive leaderboard report
Human-Object Interaction Detection V-COCO PMN AP(S1) 51.8 #23 of 34 Archive leaderboard report

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