Metric-Scale Truncation-Robust Heatmaps for 3D Human Pose Estimation

03/05/2020
by   István Sárándi, et al.
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Heatmap representations have formed the basis of 2D human pose estimation systems for many years, but their generalizations for 3D pose have only recently been considered. This includes 2.5D volumetric heatmaps, whose X and Y axes correspond to image space and the Z axis to metric depth around the subject. To obtain metric-scale predictions, these methods must include a separate, explicit post-processing step to resolve scale ambiguity. Further, they cannot encode body joint positions outside of the image boundaries, leading to incomplete pose estimates in case of image truncation. We address these limitations by proposing metric-scale truncation-robust (MeTRo) volumetric heatmaps, whose dimensions are defined in metric 3D space near the subject, instead of being aligned with image space. We train a fully-convolutional network to estimate such heatmaps from monocular RGB in an end-to-end manner. This reinterpretation of the heatmap dimensions allows us to estimate complete metric-scale poses without test-time knowledge of the focal length or person distance and without relying on anthropometric heuristics in post-processing. Furthermore, as the image space is decoupled from the heatmap space, the network can learn to reason about joints beyond the image boundary. Using ResNet-50 without any additional learned layers, we obtain state-of-the-art results on the Human3.6M and MPI-INF-3DHP benchmarks. As our method is simple and fast, it can become a useful component for real-time top-down multi-person pose estimation systems. We make our code publicly available to facilitate further research (see https://vision.rwth-aachen.de/metro-pose3d).

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