Closing the Gap in Human Behavior Analysis: A Pipeline for Synthesizing Trimodal Data

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Main Authors: Stippel, Christian, Heitzinger, Thomas, Sterzinger, Rafael, Kampel, Martin
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author Stippel, Christian
Heitzinger, Thomas
Sterzinger, Rafael
Kampel, Martin
author_facet Stippel, Christian
Heitzinger, Thomas
Sterzinger, Rafael
Kampel, Martin
contents In pervasive machine learning, especially in Human Behavior Analysis (HBA), RGB has been the primary modality due to its accessibility and richness of information. However, linked with its benefits are challenges, including sensitivity to lighting conditions and privacy concerns. One possibility to overcome these vulnerabilities is to resort to different modalities. For instance, thermal is particularly adept at accentuating human forms, while depth adds crucial contextual layers. Despite their known benefits, only a few HBA-specific datasets that integrate these modalities exist. To address this shortage, our research introduces a novel generative technique for creating trimodal, i.e., RGB, thermal, and depth, human-focused datasets. This technique capitalizes on human segmentation masks derived from RGB images, combined with thermal and depth backgrounds that are sourced automatically. With these two ingredients, we synthesize depth and thermal counterparts from existing RGB data utilizing conditional image-to-image translation. By employing this approach, we generate trimodal data that can be leveraged to train models for settings with limited data, bad lightning conditions, or privacy-sensitive areas.
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spellingShingle Closing the Gap in Human Behavior Analysis: A Pipeline for Synthesizing Trimodal Data
Stippel, Christian
Heitzinger, Thomas
Sterzinger, Rafael
Kampel, Martin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
In pervasive machine learning, especially in Human Behavior Analysis (HBA), RGB has been the primary modality due to its accessibility and richness of information. However, linked with its benefits are challenges, including sensitivity to lighting conditions and privacy concerns. One possibility to overcome these vulnerabilities is to resort to different modalities. For instance, thermal is particularly adept at accentuating human forms, while depth adds crucial contextual layers. Despite their known benefits, only a few HBA-specific datasets that integrate these modalities exist. To address this shortage, our research introduces a novel generative technique for creating trimodal, i.e., RGB, thermal, and depth, human-focused datasets. This technique capitalizes on human segmentation masks derived from RGB images, combined with thermal and depth backgrounds that are sourced automatically. With these two ingredients, we synthesize depth and thermal counterparts from existing RGB data utilizing conditional image-to-image translation. By employing this approach, we generate trimodal data that can be leveraged to train models for settings with limited data, bad lightning conditions, or privacy-sensitive areas.
title Closing the Gap in Human Behavior Analysis: A Pipeline for Synthesizing Trimodal Data
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01537