【系列论文研读】Pose Estimation

Human Pose Estimation

一、Definition：

• defined as the problem of localization of human joints
• challenges of this problem – strong articulations, small and barely visible joints

 

二、Two methods:

1. Top-down：Locate Person -> Locate Joints
2. Bottom-up： Locate All Joints -> which person

 

Paper

一、DeepPose（cvpr2014）

Title：DeepPose: Human Pose Estimation via Deep Neural Networks

Author：Alexander Toshev, Christian Szegedy (Google)

Main contributions:

1、formulate the pose estimation as a joint regression problem

              Using the entire image as input for each joint.

2、propose a cascade of DNN-based pose predictors

 

Method：

pose vector:

A labeled image:

Normalize the joint coordinates to