SmartMocap: Joint Estimation of Human and Camera Motion using Uncalibrated RGB Cameras

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.13906v2
• Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 21:52:18 GMT
• Title: SmartMocap: Joint Estimation of Human and Camera Motion using Uncalibrated RGB Cameras
• Authors: Nitin Saini, Chun-hao P. Huang, Michael J. Black, Aamir Ahmad
• Abstract summary: Markerless human motion capture (mocap) from multiple RGB cameras is a widely studied problem. Existing methods either need calibrated cameras or calibrate them relative to a static camera, which acts as the reference frame for the mocap system. We propose a mocap method which uses multiple static and moving extrinsically uncalibrated RGB cameras.
• Score: 49.110201064166915
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Markerless human motion capture (mocap) from multiple RGB cameras is a widely studied problem. Existing methods either need calibrated cameras or calibrate them relative to a static camera, which acts as the reference frame for the mocap system. The calibration step has to be done a priori for every capture session, which is a tedious process, and re-calibration is required whenever cameras are intentionally or accidentally moved. In this paper, we propose a mocap method which uses multiple static and moving extrinsically uncalibrated RGB cameras. The key components of our method are as follows. First, since the cameras and the subject can move freely, we select the ground plane as a common reference to represent both the body and the camera motions unlike existing methods which represent bodies in the camera coordinate. Second, we learn a probability distribution of short human motion sequences ($\sim$1sec) relative to the ground plane and leverage it to disambiguate between the camera and human motion. Third, we use this distribution as a motion prior in a novel multi-stage optimization approach to fit the SMPL human body model and the camera poses to the human body keypoints on the images. Finally, we show that our method can work on a variety of datasets ranging from aerial cameras to smartphones. It also gives more accurate results compared to the state-of-the-art on the task of monocular human mocap with a static camera. Our code is available for research purposes on https://github.com/robot-perception-group/SmartMocap.

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