In this paper we present a novel approach for bottom-up multi-person 3D human pose estimation from monocular RGB images. We propose to use high resolution volumetric heatmaps to model joint locations, devising a simple and effective compression method to drastically reduce the size of this representation. At the core of the proposed method lies our Volumetric Heatmap Autoencoder, a fully-convolutional network tasked with the compression of ground-truth heatmaps into a dense intermediate representation. A second model, the Code Predictor, is then trained to predict these codes, which can be decompressed at test time to re-obtain the original representation. Our experimental evaluation shows that our method performs favorably when compared to state of the art on both multi-person and single-person 3D human pose estimation datasets and, thanks to our novel compression strategy, can process full-HD images at the constant runtime of 8 fps regardless of the number of subjects in the scene.

In this paper we present a novel approach for bottom-up multi-person 3D human pose estimation from monocular RGB images. We propose to use high resolution volumetric heatmaps to model joint locations, devising a simple and effective compression method to drastically reduce the size of this representation. At the core of the proposed method lies our Volumetric Heatmap Autoencoder, a fully-convolutional network tasked with the compression of ground-truth heatmaps into a dense intermediate representation. A second model, the Code Predictor, is then trained to predict these codes, which can be decompressed at test time to re-obtain the original representation. Our experimental evaluation shows that our method performs favorably when compared to state of the art on both multi-person and single-person 3D human pose estimation datasets and, thanks to our novel compression strategy, can process full-HD images at the constant runtime of 8 fps regardless of the number of subjects in the scene. Code and models are publicly available.

Compressed Volumetric Heatmaps for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation / Fabbri, Matteo; Lanzi, Fabio; Calderara, Simone; Alletto, Stefano; Cucchiara, Rita. - (2020), pp. 7202-7211. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2020 tenutosi a Seattle nel June, 16-18 2020) [10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00723].

Compressed Volumetric Heatmaps for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation

Matteo Fabbri;Fabio Lanzi;Simone Calderara;Stefano Alletto;Rita Cucchiara
2020

Abstract

In this paper we present a novel approach for bottom-up multi-person 3D human pose estimation from monocular RGB images. We propose to use high resolution volumetric heatmaps to model joint locations, devising a simple and effective compression method to drastically reduce the size of this representation. At the core of the proposed method lies our Volumetric Heatmap Autoencoder, a fully-convolutional network tasked with the compression of ground-truth heatmaps into a dense intermediate representation. A second model, the Code Predictor, is then trained to predict these codes, which can be decompressed at test time to re-obtain the original representation. Our experimental evaluation shows that our method performs favorably when compared to state of the art on both multi-person and single-person 3D human pose estimation datasets and, thanks to our novel compression strategy, can process full-HD images at the constant runtime of 8 fps regardless of the number of subjects in the scene. Code and models are publicly available.
2020
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2020
Seattle
June, 16-18 2020
7202
7211
Fabbri, Matteo; Lanzi, Fabio; Calderara, Simone; Alletto, Stefano; Cucchiara, Rita
Compressed Volumetric Heatmaps for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation / Fabbri, Matteo; Lanzi, Fabio; Calderara, Simone; Alletto, Stefano; Cucchiara, Rita. - (2020), pp. 7202-7211. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2020 tenutosi a Seattle nel June, 16-18 2020) [10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00723].
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