View-Invariant, Occlusion-Robust Probabilistic Embedding for Human Pose

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13321v3
• Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:03:27 GMT
• Title: View-Invariant, Occlusion-Robust Probabilistic Embedding for Human Pose
• Authors: Ting Liu, Jennifer J. Sun, Long Zhao, Jiaping Zhao, Liangzhe Yuan, Yuxiao Wang, Liang-Chieh Chen, Florian Schroff, Hartwig Adam
• Abstract summary: We propose an approach to learning a compact view-invariant embedding space from 2D body joint keypoints, without explicitly predicting 3D poses. Experimental results show that our embedding model achieves higher accuracy when retrieving similar poses across different camera views.
• Score: 36.384824115033304
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recognition of human poses and actions is crucial for autonomous systems to interact smoothly with people. However, cameras generally capture human poses in 2D as images and videos, which can have significant appearance variations across viewpoints that make the recognition tasks challenging. To address this, we explore recognizing similarity in 3D human body poses from 2D information, which has not been well-studied in existing works. Here, we propose an approach to learning a compact view-invariant embedding space from 2D body joint keypoints, without explicitly predicting 3D poses. Input ambiguities of 2D poses from projection and occlusion are difficult to represent through a deterministic mapping, and therefore we adopt a probabilistic formulation for our embedding space. Experimental results show that our embedding model achieves higher accuracy when retrieving similar poses across different camera views, in comparison with 3D pose estimation models. We also show that by training a simple temporal embedding model, we achieve superior performance on pose sequence retrieval and largely reduce the embedding dimension from stacking frame-based embeddings for efficient large-scale retrieval. Furthermore, in order to enable our embeddings to work with partially visible input, we further investigate different keypoint occlusion augmentation strategies during training. We demonstrate that these occlusion augmentations significantly improve retrieval performance on partial 2D input poses. Results on action recognition and video alignment demonstrate that using our embeddings without any additional training achieves competitive performance relative to other models specifically trained for each task.

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