SuperAnimal pretrained pose estimation models for behavioral analysis

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Hauptverfasser: Ye, Shaokai, Filippova, Anastasiia, Lauer, Jessy, Schneider, Steffen, Vidal, Maxime, Qiu, Tian, Mathis, Alexander, Mathis, Mackenzie Weygandt
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author Ye, Shaokai
Filippova, Anastasiia
Lauer, Jessy
Schneider, Steffen
Vidal, Maxime
Qiu, Tian
Mathis, Alexander
Mathis, Mackenzie Weygandt
author_facet Ye, Shaokai
Filippova, Anastasiia
Lauer, Jessy
Schneider, Steffen
Vidal, Maxime
Qiu, Tian
Mathis, Alexander
Mathis, Mackenzie Weygandt
contents Quantification of behavior is critical in applications ranging from neuroscience, veterinary medicine and animal conservation efforts. A common key step for behavioral analysis is first extracting relevant keypoints on animals, known as pose estimation. However, reliable inference of poses currently requires domain knowledge and manual labeling effort to build supervised models. We present a series of technical innovations that enable a new method, collectively called SuperAnimal, to develop unified foundation models that can be used on over 45 species, without additional human labels. Concretely, we introduce a method to unify the keypoint space across differently labeled datasets (via our generalized data converter) and for training these diverse datasets in a manner such that they don't catastrophically forget keypoints given the unbalanced inputs (via our keypoint gradient masking and memory replay approaches). These models show excellent performance across six pose benchmarks. Then, to ensure maximal usability for end-users, we demonstrate how to fine-tune the models on differently labeled data and provide tooling for unsupervised video adaptation to boost performance and decrease jitter across frames. If the models are fine-tuned, we show SuperAnimal models are 10-100$\times$ more data efficient than prior transfer-learning-based approaches. We illustrate the utility of our models in behavioral classification in mice and gait analysis in horses. Collectively, this presents a data-efficient solution for animal pose estimation.
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spellingShingle SuperAnimal pretrained pose estimation models for behavioral analysis
Ye, Shaokai
Filippova, Anastasiia
Lauer, Jessy
Schneider, Steffen
Vidal, Maxime
Qiu, Tian
Mathis, Alexander
Mathis, Mackenzie Weygandt
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Quantitative Methods
Quantification of behavior is critical in applications ranging from neuroscience, veterinary medicine and animal conservation efforts. A common key step for behavioral analysis is first extracting relevant keypoints on animals, known as pose estimation. However, reliable inference of poses currently requires domain knowledge and manual labeling effort to build supervised models. We present a series of technical innovations that enable a new method, collectively called SuperAnimal, to develop unified foundation models that can be used on over 45 species, without additional human labels. Concretely, we introduce a method to unify the keypoint space across differently labeled datasets (via our generalized data converter) and for training these diverse datasets in a manner such that they don't catastrophically forget keypoints given the unbalanced inputs (via our keypoint gradient masking and memory replay approaches). These models show excellent performance across six pose benchmarks. Then, to ensure maximal usability for end-users, we demonstrate how to fine-tune the models on differently labeled data and provide tooling for unsupervised video adaptation to boost performance and decrease jitter across frames. If the models are fine-tuned, we show SuperAnimal models are 10-100$\times$ more data efficient than prior transfer-learning-based approaches. We illustrate the utility of our models in behavioral classification in mice and gait analysis in horses. Collectively, this presents a data-efficient solution for animal pose estimation.
title SuperAnimal pretrained pose estimation models for behavioral analysis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07436