Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation

Abstract

This work introduces a novel convolutional network architecture for the task of human pose estimation. Features are processed across all scales and consolidated to best capture the various spatial relationships associated with the body. We show how repeated bottom-up, top-down processing used in conjunction with intermediate supervision is critical to improving the performance of the network. We refer to the architecture as a “stacked hourglass” network based on the successive steps of pooling and upsampling that are done to produce a final set of predictions. State-of-the-art results are achieved on the FLIC and MPII benchmarks outcompeting all recent methods.

Cite

Text

Newell et al. "Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2016. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46484-8_29

Markdown

[Newell et al. "Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2016.](https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2016/newell2016eccv-stacked/) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46484-8_29

BibTeX

@inproceedings{newell2016eccv-stacked,
  title     = {{Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation}},
  author    = {Newell, Alejandro and Yang, Kaiyu and Deng, Jia},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
  year      = {2016},
  pages     = {483-499},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-46484-8_29},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2016/newell2016eccv-stacked/}
}