Encoder-decoder with Multi-level Attention for 3D Human Shape and Pose Estimation

3D human shape and pose estimation is the essential task for human motion analysis, which is widely used in many 3D applications. However, existing methods cannot simultaneously capture the relations at multiple levels, including spatial-temporal level and human joint level. Therefore they fail to make accurate predictions in some hard scenarios when there is cluttered background, occlusion, or extreme pose. To this end, we propose Multi-level Attention Encoder-Decoder Network (MAED), including a Spatial-Temporal Encoder (STE) and a Kinematic Topology Decoder (KTD) to model multi-level attentions in a unified framework. STE consists of a series of cascaded blocks based on Multi-Head Self-Attention, and each block uses two parallel branches to learn spatial and temporal attention respectively. Meanwhile, KTD aims at modeling the joint level attention. It regards pose estimation as a top-down hierarchical process similar to SMPL kinematic tree. With the training set of 3DPW, MAED outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods by 6.2, 7.2, and 2.4 mm of PA-MPJPE on the three widely used benchmarks 3DPW, MPI-INF-3DHP, and Human3.6M respectively. Our code is available at https://github.com/ziniuwan/maed.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Uses Extra
Training Data
Result Benchmark
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW MAED PA-MPJPE 45.7 # 39
MPJPE 79.1 # 53
MPVPE 92.6 # 40
Acceleration Error 17.6 # 18
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M MAED Average MPJPE (mm) 56.4 # 226
PA-MPJPE 38.7 # 43
3D Human Pose Estimation MPI-INF-3DHP MAED MPJPE 83.6 # 40
PA-MPJPE 56.2 # 1

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