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3D Human Pose Estimation = 2D Pose Estimation + Matching

arXiv 1612.06524 ↗First posted 20 Dec 2016cs.CVcited by 113

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We explore 3D human pose estimation from a single RGB image. While many approaches try to directly predict 3D pose from image measurements, we explore a simple architecture that reasons through intermediate 2D pose predictions. Our approach is based on two key observations (1) Deep neural nets have revolutionized 2D pose estimation, producing accurate 2D predictions even for poses with self occlusions. (2) Big-data sets of 3D mocap data are now readily available, making it tempting to lift predicted 2D poses to 3D through simple memorization (e.g., nearest neighbors). The resulting architecture is trivial to implement with off-the-shelf 2D pose estimation systems and 3D mocap libraries. Importantly, we demonstrate that such methods outperform almost all state-of-the-art 3D pose estimation systems, most of which directly try to regress 3D pose from 2D measurements.

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  1. 2022Gait Recognition in the Wild with Dense 3D Representations and A Benchmarkcited by 114
  2. 2021Probabilistic Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation with Normalizing Flowscited by 85
  3. 2021Neural Monocular 3D Human Motion Capture with Physical Awarenesscited by 71
  4. 2022DiffPose: Multi-hypothesis Human Pose Estimation using Diffusion modelscited by 65
  5. 2021Estimating Egocentric 3D Human Pose in Global Spacecited by 56
  6. 2021Conditional Directed Graph Convolution for 3D Human Pose Estimationcited by 52
  7. 2021Recent Advances in Monocular 2D and 3D Human Pose Estimation: A Deep Learning Perspectivecited by 50
  8. 2021Reconstructing 3D Human Pose by Watching Humans in the Mirrorcited by 47
  9. 2021EventHPE: Event-based 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimationcited by 42
  10. 2021Multi-modal 3D Human Pose Estimation with 2D Weak Supervision in Autonomous Drivingcited by 40
  11. 2021Graph-Based 3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation Using Multi-View Imagescited by 38
  12. 2021ElePose: Unsupervised 3D Human Pose Estimation by Predicting Camera Elevation and Learning Normalizing Flows on 2D Posescited by 35
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  1. 2023DyGait: Exploiting Dynamic Representations for High-performance Gait Recognitioncited by 35
  2. 2022mmBody Benchmark: 3D Body Reconstruction Dataset and Analysis for Millimeter Wave Radarcited by 32
  3. 2021Gravity-Aware Monocular 3D Human-Object Reconstructioncited by 30
  4. 2021Learning Rich Features for Gait Recognition by Integrating Skeletons and Silhouettescited by 29
  5. 2022HULC: 3D Human Motion Capture with Pose Manifold Sampling and Dense Contact Guidancecited by 29
  6. 2021KAMA: 3D Keypoint Aware Body Mesh Articulationcited by 27
  7. 2021Unsupervised Human Pose Estimation through Transforming Shape Templatescited by 26
  8. 2022Efficient Human Pose Estimation via 3D Event Point Cloudcited by 25
  9. 2021A Comprehensive Review of Deep Learning-based Single Image Super-resolutioncited by 23
  10. 2023Ego3DPose: Capturing 3D Cues from Binocular Egocentric Viewscited by 22
  11. 20222D Human Pose Estimation: A Surveycited by 21
  12. 2023Vision-Based Human Pose Estimation via Deep Learning: A Surveycited by 20
  13. 2023Scene-Aware 3D Multi-Human Motion Capture from a Single Cameracited by 19
  14. 2023Global Adaptation meets Local Generalization: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for 3D Human Pose Estimationcited by 19
  15. 2021Improving Robustness and Accuracy via Relative Information Encoding in 3D Human Pose Estimationcited by 18
  16. 2022MoCapDeform: Monocular 3D Human Motion Capture in Deformable Scenescited by 18
  17. 2024Ultra Inertial Poser: Scalable Motion Capture and Tracking from Sparse Inertial Sensors and Ultra-Wideband Rangingcited by 18
  18. 2022Occluded Human Body Capture with Self-Supervised Spatial-Temporal Motion Priorcited by 15
  19. 2021Weakly-supervised 3D Human Pose Estimation with Cross-view U-shaped Graph Convolutional Networkcited by 13
  20. 2022Dual networks based 3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation from Monocular Videocited by 13
  21. 2023A Hybrid ANN-SNN Architecture for Low-Power and Low-Latency Visual Perceptioncited by 13
  22. 2021Passing a Non-verbal Turing Test: Evaluating Gesture Animations Generated from Speechcited by 11
  23. 2022Gait Recognition in the Wild: A Large-scale Benchmark and NAS-based Baselinecited by 11
  24. 2023A Single 2D Pose with Context is Worth Hundreds for 3D Human Pose Estimationcited by 11
  25. 2021Everybody Is Unique: Towards Unbiased Human Mesh Recoverycited by 10
  26. 2021Self-Supervised 3D Human Pose Estimation with Multiple-View Geometrycited by 10
  27. 2021GraFormer: Graph Convolution Transformer for 3D Pose Estimationcited by 10
  28. 2022Explicit Occlusion Reasoning for Multi-person 3D Human Pose Estimationcited by 10
  29. 2022BKinD-3D: Self-Supervised 3D Keypoint Discovery from Multi-View Videoscited by 10
  30. 2021Estimating 3D Motion and Forces of Human-Object Interactions from Internet Videoscited by 9
  31. 2022Progressive Multi-view Human Mesh Recovery with Self-Supervisioncited by 9
  32. 2023Hierarchical Skeleton Meta-Prototype Contrastive Learning with Hard Skeleton Mining for Unsupervised Person Re-Identificationcited by 9
  33. 2023DiffHPE: Robust, Coherent 3D Human Pose Lifting with Diffusioncited by 9
  34. 2021SM-SGE: A Self-Supervised Multi-Scale Skeleton Graph Encoding Framework for Person Re-Identificationcited by 8
  35. 20213D Pose Estimation and Future Motion Prediction from 2D Imagescited by 8
  36. 2023Self-supervised 3D Human Pose Estimation from a Single Imagecited by 8
  37. 2021Multi-Level Graph Encoding with Structural-Collaborative Relation Learning for Skeleton-Based Person Re-Identificationcited by 7
  38. 2021Enhanced 3D Human Pose Estimation from Videos by using Attention-Based Neural Network with Dilated Convolutionscited by 6

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