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Main Authors: Dünkel, Olaf, Salzmann, Tim, Pfaff, Florian
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05675
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author Dünkel, Olaf
Salzmann, Tim
Pfaff, Florian
author_facet Dünkel, Olaf
Salzmann, Tim
Pfaff, Florian
contents Normalizing flows have proven their efficacy for density estimation in Euclidean space, but their application to rotational representations, crucial in various domains such as robotics or human pose modeling, remains underexplored. Probabilistic models of the human pose can benefit from approaches that rigorously consider the rotational nature of human joints. For this purpose, we introduce HuProSO3, a normalizing flow model that operates on a high-dimensional product space of SO(3) manifolds, modeling the joint distribution for human joints with three degrees of freedom. HuProSO3's advantage over state-of-the-art approaches is demonstrated through its superior modeling accuracy in three different applications and its capability to evaluate the exact likelihood. This work not only addresses the technical challenge of learning densities on SO(3) manifolds, but it also has broader implications for domains where the probabilistic regression of correlated 3D rotations is of importance.
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spellingShingle Normalizing Flows on the Product Space of SO(3) Manifolds for Probabilistic Human Pose Modeling
Dünkel, Olaf
Salzmann, Tim
Pfaff, Florian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Normalizing flows have proven their efficacy for density estimation in Euclidean space, but their application to rotational representations, crucial in various domains such as robotics or human pose modeling, remains underexplored. Probabilistic models of the human pose can benefit from approaches that rigorously consider the rotational nature of human joints. For this purpose, we introduce HuProSO3, a normalizing flow model that operates on a high-dimensional product space of SO(3) manifolds, modeling the joint distribution for human joints with three degrees of freedom. HuProSO3's advantage over state-of-the-art approaches is demonstrated through its superior modeling accuracy in three different applications and its capability to evaluate the exact likelihood. This work not only addresses the technical challenge of learning densities on SO(3) manifolds, but it also has broader implications for domains where the probabilistic regression of correlated 3D rotations is of importance.
title Normalizing Flows on the Product Space of SO(3) Manifolds for Probabilistic Human Pose Modeling
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05675