Weakly Supervised Multi-Modal 3D Human Body Pose Estimation for Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14889v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:28:50 GMT
• Title: Weakly Supervised Multi-Modal 3D Human Body Pose Estimation for Autonomous Driving
• Authors: Peter Bauer, Arij Bouazizi, Ulrich Kressel, Fabian B. Flohr
• Abstract summary: 3D human pose estimation is crucial for enabling autonomous vehicles (AVs) to make informed decisions and respond proactively in critical road scenarios. We present a simple yet efficient weakly supervised approach for 3D HPE in the AV context by employing a high-level sensor fusion between camera and LiDAR data. Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art results by up to $sim$ 13% on the Open dataset in the weakly supervised setting.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Accurate 3D human pose estimation (3D HPE) is crucial for enabling autonomous vehicles (AVs) to make informed decisions and respond proactively in critical road scenarios. Promising results of 3D HPE have been gained in several domains such as human-computer interaction, robotics, sports and medical analytics, often based on data collected in well-controlled laboratory environments. Nevertheless, the transfer of 3D HPE methods to AVs has received limited research attention, due to the challenges posed by obtaining accurate 3D pose annotations and the limited suitability of data from other domains. We present a simple yet efficient weakly supervised approach for 3D HPE in the AV context by employing a high-level sensor fusion between camera and LiDAR data. The weakly supervised setting enables training on the target datasets without any 2D/3D keypoint labels by using an off-the-shelf 2D joint extractor and pseudo labels generated from LiDAR to image projections. Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art results by up to $\sim$ 13% on the Waymo Open Dataset in the weakly supervised setting and achieves state-of-the-art results in the supervised setting.

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