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SSTA-Net: Self-supervised Spatio-Temporal Attention Network for Action Recognition

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Action recognition aims to identify the action categories and features in the video by analyzing the actions and behavior patterns that are significant to the development of intelligent security, automatic driving, smart home, and other fields. However, current methods fail to adequately model the spatio-temporal relationships of actions in videos, and video annotation is a time-consuming and expensive process. This paper proposes a Self-Supervised Spatio-Temporal Attention Network (SSTA-Net) for action recognition to solve the above problems. Firstly, we use a self-supervised method for training, which does not require a large amount of labeled data and can explore unknown or hidden information in the data. Secondly, in the feature extraction part, Multi-Scale Convolution Attention Module (MC-AM) is proposed. By performing convolution operations on the input image at different scales, the details and edge information in the image are enhanced, and the image quality of the original sampling frame is improved. Finally, a Spatio-Temporal Attention Module (ST-A) is proposed. The module is used to capture the spatio-temporal signal sensitivity in the video, which effectively improves the accuracy of action recognition.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61971273 and in part by the Fund Program for the Scientific Activities of Selected Returned Overseas Professionals in Shaanxi Province of China under Grant 2021-012.

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Li, Y., Zhang, W., Pei, Z. (2023). SSTA-Net: Self-supervised Spatio-Temporal Attention Network for�Action Recognition. In: Lu, H., et al. Image and Graphics. ICIG 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14356. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46308-2_32

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