Detecting Human-Object Interactions via Functional Generalization

Authors

  • Ankan Bansal University of Maryland, College Park
  • Sai Saketh Rambhatla University of Maryland, College Park
  • Abhinav Shrivastava University of Maryland, College Park
  • Rama Chellappa University of Maryland, College Park

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i07.6616

Abstract

We present an approach for detecting human-object interactions (HOIs) in images, based on the idea that humans interact with functionally similar objects in a similar manner. The proposed model is simple and efficiently uses the data, visual features of the human, relative spatial orientation of the human and the object, and the knowledge that functionally similar objects take part in similar interactions with humans. We provide extensive experimental validation for our approach and demonstrate state-of-the-art results for HOI detection. On the HICO-Det dataset our method achieves a gain of over 2.5% absolute points in mean average precision (mAP) over state-of-the-art. We also show that our approach leads to significant performance gains for zero-shot HOI detection in the seen object setting. We further demonstrate that using a generic object detector, our model can generalize to interactions involving previously unseen objects.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Bansal, A., Rambhatla, S. S., Shrivastava, A., & Chellappa, R. (2020). Detecting Human-Object Interactions via Functional Generalization. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(07), 10460-10469. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i07.6616

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AAAI Technical Track: Vision