HAhb-KG: Hierarchical Augmented Knowledge Graph for Human Behavior Assisting Cross-Modal Learning Action Detection

Action detection in untrimmed, densely annotated video datasets is a challenging task due to the presence of composite actions and co-occurring actions in videos. To facilitate action detection in such intricate scenarios, leveraging ample prior information from the data and comprehending the context of actions in the video are the most important two clues. Specifically, the co-occurrence probability of actions can effectively capture the temporal relationships and associations among actions, aiding the model in recognizing multiple actions occurring simultaneously. Additionally, aggregating action information from different levels of the data into a comprehensive graph and describing human actions from various semantic layers can significantly reduce ambiguities in action detection. Based on this, a novel knowledge graph, Hierarchical Augmented Knowledge Graph for human behaviour (HAhb-KG), is proposed, which brings together action-related prior knowledge on different levels into a unified hierarchical graph. The graph describes human behaviour from various semantic aspects by defining diversified graph nodes, and augments the nodes and relationships with corresponding images and probability of co-occurrence respectively, to introduce textual modality information and weigh the associations between actions. In order to mine the knowledge related to the input video in the knowledge graph, HAhb-KG oriented knowledge understanding framework is proposed to embed multi-modal knowledge as a valuable supplement to visual information. Incorporated with the framework, a cross-modal learning action detection model is designed to achieve high accuracy in action detection tasks, which validates the effectiveness of HAhb-KG. Our method achieves gains of 1.45(mAP) and 2.28(mAP) in action detection experiments on the Charades and TSU datasets, respectively, which show that the proposed method outperforms existing knowledge-based action detection methods.