MEOM: Multi-View Expected-OKS Maximization for Human Pose Triangulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30521v1
• Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:54:05 GMT
• Title: MEOM: Multi-View Expected-OKS Maximization for Human Pose Triangulation
• Abstract summary: Conventional triangulation solves 3D human pose estimation from multi-view 2D keypoints.<n>We seek to use the entire heatmap to estimate 3D poses more accurately.<n>We introduce a novel objective, Multi-viewExpected-OKS Maximization (MEOM)
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Conventional algebraic triangulation solves 3D human pose estimation (HPE) from multi-view 2D keypoints. The typical approach, decoding 2D keypoints from predicted heatmaps, is unreliable as heatmaps can be multimodal under occlusion, and collapsing them into single peaks discards their spatial distribution. We seek to use the entire heatmap to estimate 3D poses more accurately, which requires solving two problems: how to robustly fuse heatmaps across views, and how to assess the reliability of heatmaps. For the former, we introduce a novel objective, Multi-viewExpected-OKS Maximization (MEOM), that locates a 3D joint where the views agree in probability mass. For the latter, we adopt highest-density-region (HDR) calibration as a diagnostic of that mass, independently of distance-based metrics. The proposed framework covers two settings, with and without 3D supervision. Without 3D supervision, we optimize 3D poses from pretrained heatmap predictors by maximizing MEOM, achieving comparable performance with state-of-the-art methods that rely on larger backbones, temporal fusion, and simulated 3D data. On ambiguous Human3.6M (H36MA) and occluded CMU Panoptic frames, the advantage is substantial. When 3D labels are available, we train the model end-to-end with a combined MEOM and MSE loss, achieving 19.11 mm absolute MPJPE on Human3.6M outperforming the state-of-the-art volumetric approach on absolute MPJPE at half the inference cost.

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