Depth-based Privileged Information for Boosting 3D Human Pose Estimation on RGB
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| author | Simoni, Alessandro Marchetti, Francesco Borghi, Guido Becattini, Federico Davoli, Davide Garattoni, Lorenzo Francesca, Gianpiero Seidenari, Lorenzo Vezzani, Roberto |
| author_facet | Simoni, Alessandro Marchetti, Francesco Borghi, Guido Becattini, Federico Davoli, Davide Garattoni, Lorenzo Francesca, Gianpiero Seidenari, Lorenzo Vezzani, Roberto |
| contents | Despite the recent advances in computer vision research, estimating the 3D human pose from single RGB images remains a challenging task, as multiple 3D poses can correspond to the same 2D projection on the image. In this context, depth data could help to disambiguate the 2D information by providing additional constraints about the distance between objects in the scene and the camera. Unfortunately, the acquisition of accurate depth data is limited to indoor spaces and usually is tied to specific depth technologies and devices, thus limiting generalization capabilities. In this paper, we propose a method able to leverage the benefits of depth information without compromising its broader applicability and adaptability in a predominantly RGB-camera-centric landscape. Our approach consists of a heatmap-based 3D pose estimator that, leveraging the paradigm of Privileged Information, is able to hallucinate depth information from the RGB frames given at inference time. More precisely, depth information is used exclusively during training by enforcing our RGB-based hallucination network to learn similar features to a backbone pre-trained only on depth data. This approach proves to be effective even when dealing with limited and small datasets. Experimental results reveal that the paradigm of Privileged Information significantly enhances the model's performance, enabling efficient extraction of depth information by using only RGB images. |
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| spellingShingle | Depth-based Privileged Information for Boosting 3D Human Pose Estimation on RGB Simoni, Alessandro Marchetti, Francesco Borghi, Guido Becattini, Federico Davoli, Davide Garattoni, Lorenzo Francesca, Gianpiero Seidenari, Lorenzo Vezzani, Roberto Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Despite the recent advances in computer vision research, estimating the 3D human pose from single RGB images remains a challenging task, as multiple 3D poses can correspond to the same 2D projection on the image. In this context, depth data could help to disambiguate the 2D information by providing additional constraints about the distance between objects in the scene and the camera. Unfortunately, the acquisition of accurate depth data is limited to indoor spaces and usually is tied to specific depth technologies and devices, thus limiting generalization capabilities. In this paper, we propose a method able to leverage the benefits of depth information without compromising its broader applicability and adaptability in a predominantly RGB-camera-centric landscape. Our approach consists of a heatmap-based 3D pose estimator that, leveraging the paradigm of Privileged Information, is able to hallucinate depth information from the RGB frames given at inference time. More precisely, depth information is used exclusively during training by enforcing our RGB-based hallucination network to learn similar features to a backbone pre-trained only on depth data. This approach proves to be effective even when dealing with limited and small datasets. Experimental results reveal that the paradigm of Privileged Information significantly enhances the model's performance, enabling efficient extraction of depth information by using only RGB images. |
| title | Depth-based Privileged Information for Boosting 3D Human Pose Estimation on RGB |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11104 |