3D Pictorial Structures Revisited: Multiple Human Pose Estimation

Belagiannis V, Amin S, Andriluka M, Schiele B, Navab N, Ilic S (2016)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2016

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Book Volume: 38

Pages Range: 1929-1942

Article Number: 7360209

Journal Issue: 10

DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2015.2509986

Abstract

We address the problem of 3D pose estimation of multiple humans from multiple views. The transition from single to multiple human pose estimation and from the 2D to 3D space is challenging due to a much larger state space, occlusions and across-view ambiguities when not knowing the identity of the humans in advance. To address these problems, we first create a reduced state space by triangulation of corresponding pairs of body parts obtained by part detectors for each camera view. In order to resolve ambiguities of wrong and mixed parts of multiple humans after triangulation and also those coming from false positive detections, we introduce a 3D pictorial structures (3DPS) model. Our model builds on multi-view unary potentials, while a prior model is integrated into pairwise and ternary potential functions. To balance the potentials' influence, the model parameters are learnt using a Structured SVM (SSVM). The model is generic and applicable to both single and multiple human pose estimation. To evaluate our model on single and multiple human pose estimation, we rely on four different datasets. We first analyse the contribution of the potentials and then compare our results with related work where we demonstrate superior performance.

Authors with CRIS profile

Vasileios Belagiannis

Involved external institutions

Technische Universität München (TUM) DE Germany (DE) Stanford University US United States (USA) (US) Max Planck Institute for Informatics / Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Belagiannis, V., Amin, S., Andriluka, M., Schiele, B., Navab, N., & Ilic, S. (2016). 3D Pictorial Structures Revisited: Multiple Human Pose Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 38(10), 1929-1942. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2015.2509986

MLA:

Belagiannis, Vasileios, et al. "3D Pictorial Structures Revisited: Multiple Human Pose Estimation." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 38.10 (2016): 1929-1942.

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