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UniPose: Unified Human Pose Estimation in Single Images and Videos

arXiv 2001.08095 ↗First posted 22 Jan 2020cs.CVcited by 49

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Abstract (arXiv)

We propose UniPose, a unified framework for human pose estimation, based on our "Waterfall" Atrous Spatial Pooling architecture, that achieves state-of-art-results on several pose estimation metrics. Current pose estimation methods utilizing standard CNN architectures heavily rely on statistical postprocessing or predefined anchor poses for joint localization. UniPose incorporates contextual segmentation and joint localization to estimate the human pose in a single stage, with high accuracy, without relying on statistical postprocessing methods. The Waterfall module in UniPose leverages the efficiency of progressive filtering in the cascade architecture, while maintaining multi-scale fields-of-view comparable to spatial pyramid configurations. Additionally, our method is extended to UniPose-LSTM for multi-frame processing and achieves state-of-the-art results for temporal pose estimation in Video. Our results on multiple datasets demonstrate that UniPose, with a ResNet backbone and Waterfall module, is a robust and efficient architecture for pose estimation obtaining state-of-the-art results in single person pose detection for both single images and videos.

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  1. 2024VisionLLM v2: An End-to-End Generalist Multimodal Large Language Model for Hundreds of Vision-Language Taskscited by 137
  2. 2021Bottom-Up Human Pose Estimation Via Disentangled Keypoint Regressioncited by 112
  3. 2021Online Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Pose Estimationcited by 55
  4. 2021Deep Dual Consecutive Network for Human Pose Estimationcited by 51
  5. 2021Recent Advances in Monocular 2D and 3D Human Pose Estimation: A Deep Learning Perspectivecited by 50
  6. 2022SSMTL++: Revisiting Self-Supervised Multi-Task Learning for Video Anomaly Detectioncited by 45
  7. 2023Human Pose as Compositional Tokenscited by 45
  8. 2021Test-Time Personalization with a Transformer for Human Pose Estimationcited by 33
  9. 2022Temporal Feature Alignment and Mutual Information Maximization for Video-Based Human Pose Estimationcited by 24
  10. 20222D Human Pose Estimation: A Surveycited by 21
  11. 2023Vision-Based Human Pose Estimation via Deep Learning: A Surveycited by 20
  12. 2023Mutual Information-Based Temporal Difference Learning for Human Pose Estimation in Videocited by 17
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  2. 2021MoCaNet: Motion Retargeting in-the-wild via Canonicalization Networkscited by 13
  3. 2023Markerless human pose estimation for biomedical applications: a surveycited by 13
  4. 2023Towards More Practical Group Activity Detection: A New Benchmark and Modelcited by 11
  5. 2022Explicit Occlusion Reasoning for Multi-person 3D Human Pose Estimationcited by 10
  6. 2023Scene-aware Human Pose Generation using Transformercited by 9
  7. 2022AIO-P: Expanding Neural Performance Predictors Beyond Image Classificationcited by 8
  8. 2021Relation-Based Associative Joint Location for Human Pose Estimation in Videoscited by 7
  9. 2022Self-supervised Social Relation Representation for Human Group Detectioncited by 7
  10. 2024Joint-Motion Mutual Learning for Pose Estimation in Videoscited by 7
  11. 2021OmniPose: A Multi-Scale Framework for Multi-Person Pose Estimationcited by 6
  12. 2021SIMPLE: SIngle-network with Mimicking and Point Learning for Bottom-up Human Pose Estimationcited by 5
  13. 2022A Temporal Densely Connected Recurrent Network for Event-based Human Pose Estimationcited by 5
  14. 2023Deep Active Learning in the Presence of Label Noise: A Surveycited by 5
  15. 2023Human Body Pose Estimation for Gait Identification: A Comprehensive Survey of Datasets and Modelscited by 5
  16. 2025Human Motion Capture from Loose and Sparse Inertial Sensors with Garment-aware Diffusion Modelscited by 5
  17. 2021Single Person Pose Estimation: A Surveycited by 4
  18. 2021BAPose: Bottom-Up Pose Estimation with Disentangled Waterfall Representationscited by 3
  19. 2023CARLA-BSP: a simulated dataset with pedestrianscited by 3
  20. 2025SpatioTemporal Learning for Human Pose Estimation in Sparsely-Labeled Videoscited by 3
  21. 2021Real-Time Human Pose Estimation on a Smart Walker using Convolutional Neural Networkscited by 2
  22. 2022Kinematics Modeling Network for Video-based Human Pose Estimationcited by 2
  23. 2023PoseSync: Robust pose based video synchronizationcited by 1
  24. 2024Waterfall Transformer for Multi-person Pose Estimationcited by 1
  25. 2025REF-VLM: Triplet-Based Referring Paradigm for Unified Visual Decodingcited by 1
  26. 2025Differentially Private 2D Human Pose Estimationcited by 1
  27. 2021Composite Localization for Human Pose Estimationcited by 0
  28. 2022Representation Recycling for Streaming Video Analysiscited by 0
  29. 2022Human Health Indicator Prediction from Gait Videocited by 0
  30. 2023An Efficient Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model For Yoga Pose Recognition Using Single Imagescited by 0
  31. 2024Cross-Domain Knowledge Distillation for Low-Resolution Human Pose Estimationcited by 0
  32. 2024Focus on Low-Resolution Information: Multi-Granular Information-Lossless Model for Low-Resolution Human Pose Estimationcited by 0
  33. 2025Exploring Mutual Cross-Modal Attention for Context-Aware Human Affordance Generationcited by 0
  34. 2025Advancing Video Anomaly Detection: A Bi-Directional Hybrid Framework for Enhanced Single- and Multi-Task Approachescited by 0
  35. 2025Joint angle based learning to refine kinematic human pose estimationcited by 0
  36. 2025An End-to-End Framework for Video Multi-Person Pose Estimationcited by 0
  37. 20262D Pre-Training for 3D Pose Estimationcited by 0