Skeleton Graph-Neural-Network-Based Human Action Recognition: A Survey

Human action recognition has been applied in many fields, such as video surveillance and human computer interaction, where it helps to improve performance. Numerous reviews of the literature have been done, but rarely have these reviews concentrated on skeleton-graph-based approaches. Connecting the skeleton joints as in the physical appearance can naturally generate a graph. This paper provides an up-to-date review for readers on skeleton graph-neural-network-based human action recognition. After analyzing previous related studies, a new taxonomy for skeleton-GNN-based methods is proposed according to their designs, and their merits and demerits are analyzed. In addition, the datasets and codes are discussed. Finally, future research directions are suggested.