23 August 2021 Estimation of 3D human pose using prior knowledge
Lei Zhang, Shu Chen, Beiji Zou
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Abstract

Estimating three-dimensional (3D) human poses from the positions of two-dimensional (2D) joints has shown promising results. However, using 2D joint coordinates as input loses more information than image-based approaches and results in ambiguity. To overcome this problem, we combine bone length and camera parameters with 2D joint coordinates for input. This combination is more discriminative than the 2D joint coordinates in that it can improve the accuracy of the model’s prediction depth and alleviate the ambiguity that comes from projecting 3D coordinates into 2D space. Furthermore, we introduce direction constraints, which can better measure the difference between the ground truth and the output of the proposed model. The experimental results on the Human3.6M show that the method performed better than other state-of-the-art 3D human pose estimation approaches. The code is available at: https://github.com/XTU-PR-LAB/ExtraPose/.

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Lei Zhang, Shu Chen, and Beiji Zou "Estimation of 3D human pose using prior knowledge," Journal of Electronic Imaging 30(4), 040502 (23 August 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.30.4.040502
Received: 3 June 2021; Accepted: 4 August 2021; Published: 23 August 2021
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KEYWORDS
Cameras

Bone

3D modeling

Data modeling

3D image processing

Neural networks

Video

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