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| author | Chen, Weihong Xu, Xuemiao Yang, Haoxin Xie, Yi Xiao, Peng Xu, Cheng Zhang, Huaidong Heng, Pheng-Ann |
| author_facet | Chen, Weihong Xu, Xuemiao Yang, Haoxin Xie, Yi Xiao, Peng Xu, Cheng Zhang, Huaidong Heng, Pheng-Ann |
| contents | Existing 3D Human Pose Estimation (HPE) methods achieve high accuracy but suffer from computational overhead and slow inference, while knowledge distillation methods fail to address spatial relationships between joints and temporal correlations in multi-frame inputs. In this paper, we propose Sparse Correlation and Joint Distillation (SCJD), a novel framework that balances efficiency and accuracy for 3D HPE. SCJD introduces Sparse Correlation Input Sequence Downsampling to reduce redundancy in student network inputs while preserving inter-frame correlations. For effective knowledge transfer, we propose Dynamic Joint Spatial Attention Distillation, which includes Dynamic Joint Embedding Distillation to enhance the student's feature representation using the teacher's multi-frame context feature, and Adjacent Joint Attention Distillation to improve the student network's focus on adjacent joint relationships for better spatial understanding. Additionally, Temporal Consistency Distillation aligns the temporal correlations between teacher and student networks through upsampling and global supervision. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SCJD achieves state-of-the-art performance. Code is available at https://github.com/wileychan/SCJD. |
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| spellingShingle | SCJD: Sparse Correlation and Joint Distillation for Efficient 3D Human Pose Estimation Chen, Weihong Xu, Xuemiao Yang, Haoxin Xie, Yi Xiao, Peng Xu, Cheng Zhang, Huaidong Heng, Pheng-Ann Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Existing 3D Human Pose Estimation (HPE) methods achieve high accuracy but suffer from computational overhead and slow inference, while knowledge distillation methods fail to address spatial relationships between joints and temporal correlations in multi-frame inputs. In this paper, we propose Sparse Correlation and Joint Distillation (SCJD), a novel framework that balances efficiency and accuracy for 3D HPE. SCJD introduces Sparse Correlation Input Sequence Downsampling to reduce redundancy in student network inputs while preserving inter-frame correlations. For effective knowledge transfer, we propose Dynamic Joint Spatial Attention Distillation, which includes Dynamic Joint Embedding Distillation to enhance the student's feature representation using the teacher's multi-frame context feature, and Adjacent Joint Attention Distillation to improve the student network's focus on adjacent joint relationships for better spatial understanding. Additionally, Temporal Consistency Distillation aligns the temporal correlations between teacher and student networks through upsampling and global supervision. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SCJD achieves state-of-the-art performance. Code is available at https://github.com/wileychan/SCJD. |
| title | SCJD: Sparse Correlation and Joint Distillation for Efficient 3D Human Pose Estimation |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14097 |