Adversarial PoseNet: A Structure-aware Convolutional Network for Human Pose Estimation

For human pose estimation in monocular images, joint occlusions and overlapping upon human bodies often result in deviated pose predictions. Under these circumstances, biologically implausible pose predictions may be produced. In contrast, human vision is able to predict poses by exploiting geometric constraints of joint inter-connectivity. To address the problem by incorporating priors about the structure of human bodies, we propose a novel structure-aware convolutional network to implicitly take such priors into account during training of the deep network. Explicit learning of such constraints is typically challenging. Instead, we design discriminators to distinguish the real poses from the fake ones (such as biologically implausible ones). If the pose generator (G) generates results that the discriminator fails to distinguish from real ones, the network successfully learns the priors.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Pose Estimation MPII Human Pose Chen et al. ICCV'17 PCKh-0.5 91.9 # 15

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