HOKEM: Human and Object Keypoint-Based Extension Module for Human-Object Interaction Detection

Human-object interaction (HOI) detection for capturing relationships between humans and objects is an important task in the semantic understanding of images. When processing human and object keypoints extracted from an image using a graph convolutional network (GCN) to detect HOI, it is crucial to extract appropriate object keypoints regardless of the object type and to design a GCN that accurately captures the spatial relationships between keypoints. This paper presents the human and object keypoint-based extension module (HOKEM) as an easy-to-use extension module to improve the accuracy of the conventional detection models. The proposed object keypoint extraction method is simple yet accurately represents the shapes of various objects. Moreover, the proposed human-object adaptive GCN (HO-AGCN), which introduces adaptive graph optimization and attention mechanism, accurately captures the spatial relationships between keypoints. Experiments using the HOI dataset, V-COCO, showed that HOKEM boosted the accuracy of an appearance-based model by a large margin.