Integral Human Pose Regression

Abstract

State-of-the-art human pose estimation methods are based on heat map representation. In spite of the good performance, the representation has a few issues in nature, such as non-differentiable post-processing and quantization error. This work shows that a simple integral operation relates and unifies the heat map representation and joint regression, thus avoiding the above issues. It is differentiable, efficient, and compatible with any heat map based methods. Its effectiveness is convincingly validated via comprehensive ablation experiments under various settings, specifically on 3D pose estimation, for the first time.

Cite

Text

Sun et al. "Integral Human Pose Regression." Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01231-1_33

Markdown

[Sun et al. "Integral Human Pose Regression." Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018.](https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2018/sun2018eccv-integral/) doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01231-1_33

BibTeX

@inproceedings{sun2018eccv-integral,
  title     = {{Integral Human Pose Regression}},
  author    = {Sun, Xiao and Xiao, Bin and Wei, Fangyin and Liang, Shuang and Wei, Yichen},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  year      = {2018},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-01231-1_33},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2018/sun2018eccv-integral/}
}