Smclr: semantic-guided multi-scale contrastive learning for skeleton-based action recognition
摘要
Existing self-supervised skeleton action recognition methods mainly rely on spatiotemporal structure modeling and often underexploit high-level action semantics. To address this, we propose a semantically guided multi-scale contrastive learning framework (SMCLR), which learns more discriminative and generalizable skeleton action representations by jointly modeling spatial structure, temporal dynamics, and semantic priors. This method introduces body part-level semantic constraints in the spatial dimension to enhance joint topology modeling capabilities, constructs a scale-aware adaptive multi-scale temporal modeling mechanism in the temporal dimension to characterize diverse action dynamics, and utilizes action semantic prototypes generated by an LLM to inject high-level semantic information into the self-supervised contrastive learning process through cross-modal alignment. Experimental results on NTU RGB+D 60, NTU RGB+D 120, and PKU-MMD show that SMCLR achieves competitive performance and strong generalization ability under multiple evaluation protocols.