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Computer Science, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, cs.CV
Abstract:
Convolutional Neural Network based approaches for monocular 3D human pose
estimation usually require a large amount of training images with 3D pose
annotations. While it is feasible to provide 2D joint annotations for large
corpora of in-the-wild images with humans, providing accurate 3D annotations to
such in-the-wild corpora is hardly feasible in practice. Most existing 3D
labelled data sets are either synthetically created or feature in-studio
images. 3D pose estimation algorithms trained on such data often have limited
ability to generalize to real world scene diversity. We therefore propose a new
deep learning based method for monocular 3D human pose estimation that shows
high accuracy and generalizes better to in-the-wild scenes. It has a network
architecture that comprises a new disentangled hidden space encoding of
explicit 2D and 3D features, and uses supervision by a new learned projection
model from predicted 3D pose. Our algorithm can be jointly trained on image
data with 3D labels and image data with only 2D labels. It achieves
state-of-the-art accuracy on challenging in-the-wild data.
