Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

Posebits for Monocular Human Pose Estimation

2014

Conference Paper

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We advocate the inference of qualitative information about 3D human pose, called posebits, from images. Posebits represent boolean geometric relationships between body parts (e.g., left-leg in front of right-leg or hands close to each other). The advantages of posebits as a mid-level representation are 1) for many tasks of interest, such qualitative pose information may be sufficient (e.g. , semantic image retrieval), 2) it is relatively easy to annotate large image corpora with posebits, as it simply requires answers to yes/no questions; and 3) they help resolve challenging pose ambiguities and therefore facilitate the difficult talk of image-based 3D pose estimation. We introduce posebits, a posebit database, a method for selecting useful posebits for pose estimation and a structural SVM model for posebit inference. Experiments show the use of posebits for semantic image retrieval and for improving 3D pose estimation.

Author(s): Gerard Pons-Moll and David J. Fleet and Bodo Rosenhahn
Book Title: Proceedings IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Pages: 2345--2352
Year: 2014
Month: June

Department(s): Perceiving Systems
Research Project(s): 3D Pose from Images
Pose and Motion Priors
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference

Event Name: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Event Place: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Address: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Attachments: pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{PonsMoll_CVPR2014,
  title = {Posebits for Monocular Human Pose Estimation},
  author = {Pons-Moll, Gerard and Fleet, David J. and Rosenhahn, Bodo},
  booktitle = { Proceedings IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  pages = {2345--2352},
  address = {Columbus, Ohio, USA},
  month = jun,
  year = {2014},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {6}
}