Automatically estimating 3D human poses in video and inferring their meanings play an essential role in many human-centered automation systems. Existing researches made remarkable progresses by first estimating 2D human joints in video and then reconstructing 3D human pose from the 2D joints. However, monodirectionally reconstructing 3D pose from 2D joints ignores the interaction between information in 3D space and 2D space, losses rich information of original video, therefore limits the ceiling of estimation accuracy. To this end, this chapter proposes a bidirectional 2D-3D transformation framework that bidirectionally exchanges 2D and 3D information and utilizes video information to estimate an offset for refining 3D human pose. In addition, a bone-length stability loss is utilized for the purpose of exploring human body structure to make the estimated 3D pose more natural and to further increase the overall accuracy. By evaluation, estimation error of the proposed method, measured by the mean per joint position error (MPJPE), is only 46.5 mm, which is much lower than state-of-the-art methods under the same experimental condition. The improvement on accuracy will make machines to better understand human poses for building superior human-centered automation systems.

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Bidirectional 2D-3D Transformation for 3D Human Pose Estimation

  • Songlin Du,
  • Takeshi Ikenaga

摘要

Automatically estimating 3D human poses in video and inferring their meanings play an essential role in many human-centered automation systems. Existing researches made remarkable progresses by first estimating 2D human joints in video and then reconstructing 3D human pose from the 2D joints. However, monodirectionally reconstructing 3D pose from 2D joints ignores the interaction between information in 3D space and 2D space, losses rich information of original video, therefore limits the ceiling of estimation accuracy. To this end, this chapter proposes a bidirectional 2D-3D transformation framework that bidirectionally exchanges 2D and 3D information and utilizes video information to estimate an offset for refining 3D human pose. In addition, a bone-length stability loss is utilized for the purpose of exploring human body structure to make the estimated 3D pose more natural and to further increase the overall accuracy. By evaluation, estimation error of the proposed method, measured by the mean per joint position error (MPJPE), is only 46.5 mm, which is much lower than state-of-the-art methods under the same experimental condition. The improvement on accuracy will make machines to better understand human poses for building superior human-centered automation systems.