PoseAugment: Generative Human Pose Data Augmentation with Physical Plausibility for IMU-based Motion Capture

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Main Authors: Li, Zhuojun, Yu, Chun, Liang, Chen, Shi, Yuanchun
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author Li, Zhuojun
Yu, Chun
Liang, Chen
Shi, Yuanchun
author_facet Li, Zhuojun
Yu, Chun
Liang, Chen
Shi, Yuanchun
contents The data scarcity problem is a crucial factor that hampers the model performance of IMU-based human motion capture. However, effective data augmentation for IMU-based motion capture is challenging, since it has to capture the physical relations and constraints of the human body, while maintaining the data distribution and quality. We propose PoseAugment, a novel pipeline incorporating VAE-based pose generation and physical optimization. Given a pose sequence, the VAE module generates infinite poses with both high fidelity and diversity, while keeping the data distribution. The physical module optimizes poses to satisfy physical constraints with minimal motion restrictions. High-quality IMU data are then synthesized from the augmented poses for training motion capture models. Experiments show that PoseAugment outperforms previous data augmentation and pose generation methods in terms of motion capture accuracy, revealing a strong potential of our method to alleviate the data collection burden for IMU-based motion capture and related tasks driven by human poses.
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spellingShingle PoseAugment: Generative Human Pose Data Augmentation with Physical Plausibility for IMU-based Motion Capture
Li, Zhuojun
Yu, Chun
Liang, Chen
Shi, Yuanchun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
The data scarcity problem is a crucial factor that hampers the model performance of IMU-based human motion capture. However, effective data augmentation for IMU-based motion capture is challenging, since it has to capture the physical relations and constraints of the human body, while maintaining the data distribution and quality. We propose PoseAugment, a novel pipeline incorporating VAE-based pose generation and physical optimization. Given a pose sequence, the VAE module generates infinite poses with both high fidelity and diversity, while keeping the data distribution. The physical module optimizes poses to satisfy physical constraints with minimal motion restrictions. High-quality IMU data are then synthesized from the augmented poses for training motion capture models. Experiments show that PoseAugment outperforms previous data augmentation and pose generation methods in terms of motion capture accuracy, revealing a strong potential of our method to alleviate the data collection burden for IMU-based motion capture and related tasks driven by human poses.
title PoseAugment: Generative Human Pose Data Augmentation with Physical Plausibility for IMU-based Motion Capture
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14101