Explicit Box Detection Unifies End-to-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01593v1
• Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 08:18:34 GMT
• Title: Explicit Box Detection Unifies End-to-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation
• Authors: Jie Yang, Ailing Zeng, Shilong Liu, Feng Li, Ruimao Zhang, Lei Zhang
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a novel end-to-end framework withExplicit box Detection for multi-person Pose estimation, called ED-Pose. It unifies the contextual learning between human-level (global) and keypoint-level (local) information. For the first time, as a fully end-to-end framework with a L1 regression loss, ED-Pose surpasses heatmap-based Top-down methods under the same backbone.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents a novel end-to-end framework with Explicit box Detection for multi-person Pose estimation, called ED-Pose, where it unifies the contextual learning between human-level (global) and keypoint-level (local) information. Different from previous one-stage methods, ED-Pose re-considers this task as two explicit box detection processes with a unified representation and regression supervision. First, we introduce a human detection decoder from encoded tokens to extract global features. It can provide a good initialization for the latter keypoint detection, making the training process converge fast. Second, to bring in contextual information near keypoints, we regard pose estimation as a keypoint box detection problem to learn both box positions and contents for each keypoint. A human-to-keypoint detection decoder adopts an interactive learning strategy between human and keypoint features to further enhance global and local feature aggregation. In general, ED-Pose is conceptually simple without post-processing and dense heatmap supervision. It demonstrates its effectiveness and efficiency compared with both two-stage and one-stage methods. Notably, explicit box detection boosts the pose estimation performance by 4.5 AP on COCO and 9.9 AP on CrowdPose. For the first time, as a fully end-to-end framework with a L1 regression loss, ED-Pose surpasses heatmap-based Top-down methods under the same backbone by 1.2 AP on COCO and achieves the state-of-the-art with 76.6 AP on CrowdPose without bells and whistles. Code is available at https://github.com/IDEA-Research/ED-Pose.

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