Human Behavior Recognition Method based on Two-layer LSTM Network with Attention Mechanism

Aiming at the problem that the exiting human skeleton-based action recognition methods cannot fully extract the relevant information before and after the action, resulting in low utilization efficiency of skeleton points, we propose a two-layer LSTM (long short term memory) network with attention mechanism. The network has two layers, the first LSTM network is used for skeleton coding and initialization of system storage units and the second LSTM network integrates attention mechanism to further process the data of the first layer network. An algorithm is designed to assign different weights to skeleton points according to the importance of human body, which greatly increases the recognition accuracy. Action classification is accomplished by multiple support vector machines. Through training and testing, the average recognition rate of 98.5% is achieved on KTH dataset. The experimental result shows that the proposed method is effective in human behavior recognition.