In this paper, we present a new attention model for the recognition of human action from RGB-D videos. We propose an attention mechanism based on 3D articulated pose. The objective is to focus on the most relevant body parts involved in the action. For action classification, we propose a classification network compounded of spatio-temporal subnetworks modeling the appearance of human body parts and RNN attention subnetwork implementing our attention mechanism. Furthermore, we train our proposed network end-to-end using a regularized cross-entropy loss, leading to a joint training of the RNN delivering attention globally to the whole set of spatio-temporal features, extracted from 3D ConvNets. Our method outperforms the State-ofthe-art methods on the largest human activity recognition dataset available to-date (NTU RGB+D Dataset) which is also multi-views and on a human action recognition dataset with object interaction (Northwestern-UCLA Multiview Action 3D Dataset).
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