Sports-ACtrans Net: research on multimodal robotic sports action recognition driven via ST-GCN

Introduction: Accurately recognizing and understanding human motion actions presents a key challenge in the development of intelligent sports robots. Traditional methods often encounter significant drawbacks, such as high computational resource requirements and suboptimal real-time performance. To address these limitations, this study proposes a novel approach called Sports-ACtrans Net. Methods: In this approach, the Swin Transformer processes visual data to extract spatial features, while the Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network (ST-GCN) models human motion as graphs to handle skeleton data. By combining these outputs, a comprehensive representation of motion actions is created. Reinforcement learning is employed to optimize the action recognition process, framing it as a sequential decision-making problem. Deep Q-learning is utilized to learn the optimal policy, thereby enhancing the robot's ability to accurately recognize and engage in motion. Results and discussion: Experiments demonstrate significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods. This research advances the fields of neural computation, computer vision, and neuroscience, aiding in the development of intelligent robotic systems capable of understanding and participating in sports activities.