  Graph convolutional network based methods that model the body-joints'
relations, have recently shown great promise in 3D skeleton-based human motion
prediction. However, these methods have two critical issues: first, deep graph
convolutions filter features within only limited graph spectrums, losing
sufficient information in the full band; second, using a single graph to model
the whole body underestimates the diverse patterns on various body-parts. To
address the first issue, we propose adaptive graph scattering, which leverages
multiple trainable band-pass graph filters to decompose pose features into
richer graph spectrum bands. To address the second issue, body-parts are
modeled separately to learn diverse dynamics, which enables finer feature
extraction along the spatial dimensions. Integrating the above two designs, we
propose a novel skeleton-parted graph scattering network (SPGSN). The cores of
the model are cascaded multi-part graph scattering blocks (MPGSBs), building
adaptive graph scattering on diverse body-parts, as well as fusing the
decomposed features based on the inferred spectrum importance and body-part
interactions. Extensive experiments have shown that SPGSN outperforms
state-of-the-art methods by remarkable margins of 13.8%, 9.3% and 2.7% in terms
of 3D mean per joint position error (MPJPE) on Human3.6M, CMU Mocap and 3DPW
datasets, respectively.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition