Understanding Pose and Appearance Disentanglement in 3D Human Pose Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11667v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:22:21 GMT
• Title: Understanding Pose and Appearance Disentanglement in 3D Human Pose Estimation
• Authors: Krishna Kanth Nakka and Mathieu Salzmann
• Abstract summary: Several methods have proposed to learn image representations in a self-supervised fashion so as to disentangle the appearance information from the pose one. We study disentanglement from the perspective of the self-supervised network, via diverse image synthesis experiments. We design an adversarial strategy focusing on generating natural appearance changes of the subject, and against which we could expect a disentangled network to be robust.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: As 3D human pose estimation can now be achieved with very high accuracy in the supervised learning scenario, tackling the case where 3D pose annotations are not available has received increasing attention. In particular, several methods have proposed to learn image representations in a self-supervised fashion so as to disentangle the appearance information from the pose one. The methods then only need a small amount of supervised data to train a pose regressor using the pose-related latent vector as input, as it should be free of appearance information. In this paper, we carry out in-depth analysis to understand to what degree the state-of-the-art disentangled representation learning methods truly separate the appearance information from the pose one. First, we study disentanglement from the perspective of the self-supervised network, via diverse image synthesis experiments. Second, we investigate disentanglement with respect to the 3D pose regressor following an adversarial attack perspective. Specifically, we design an adversarial strategy focusing on generating natural appearance changes of the subject, and against which we could expect a disentangled network to be robust. Altogether, our analyses show that disentanglement in the three state-of-the-art disentangled representation learning frameworks if far from complete, and that their pose codes contain significant appearance information. We believe that our approach provides a valuable testbed to evaluate the degree of disentanglement of pose from appearance in self-supervised 3D human pose estimation.

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