Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Rao, Jiyong, Wang, Yu, Zhao, Shengjie
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2026
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13151
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866918499544203264
author Rao, Jiyong
Wang, Yu
Zhao, Shengjie
author_facet Rao, Jiyong
Wang, Yu
Zhao, Shengjie
contents Category-agnostic pose estimation (CAPE) aims to localize keypoints on query images from arbitrary categories, using only a few annotated support examples for guidance. Recent approaches either treat keypoints as isolated entities or rely on manually defined skeleton priors, which are costly to annotate and inherently inflexible across diverse categories. Such oversimplification limits the model's capacity to capture instance-wise structural cues critical for accurate pixel-level localization. To overcome these limitations, we propose GenCape, a Generative-based framework for CAPE that infers keypoint relationships solely from image-based support inputs, without additional textual descriptions or predefined skeletons. Our framework consists of two principal components: an iterative Structure-aware Variational Autoencoder (i-SVAE) and a Compositional Graph Transfer (CGT) module. The former infers soft, instance-specific adjacency matrices from support features through variational inference, embedded layer-wise into the Graph Transformer Decoder for progressive structural priors refinement. The latter adaptively aggregates multiple latent graphs into a query-aware structure via Bayesian fusion and attention-based reweighting, enhancing resilience to visual uncertainty and support-induced bias. This structure-aware design facilitates effective message propagation among keypoints and promotes semantic alignment across object categories with diverse keypoint topologies. Experimental results on the MP-100 dataset show that our method achieves substantial gains over graph-support baselines under both 1- and 5-shot settings, while maintaining competitive performance against text-support counterparts.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2605_13151
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle GenCape: Structure-Inductive Generative Modeling for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
Rao, Jiyong
Wang, Yu
Zhao, Shengjie
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Category-agnostic pose estimation (CAPE) aims to localize keypoints on query images from arbitrary categories, using only a few annotated support examples for guidance. Recent approaches either treat keypoints as isolated entities or rely on manually defined skeleton priors, which are costly to annotate and inherently inflexible across diverse categories. Such oversimplification limits the model's capacity to capture instance-wise structural cues critical for accurate pixel-level localization. To overcome these limitations, we propose GenCape, a Generative-based framework for CAPE that infers keypoint relationships solely from image-based support inputs, without additional textual descriptions or predefined skeletons. Our framework consists of two principal components: an iterative Structure-aware Variational Autoencoder (i-SVAE) and a Compositional Graph Transfer (CGT) module. The former infers soft, instance-specific adjacency matrices from support features through variational inference, embedded layer-wise into the Graph Transformer Decoder for progressive structural priors refinement. The latter adaptively aggregates multiple latent graphs into a query-aware structure via Bayesian fusion and attention-based reweighting, enhancing resilience to visual uncertainty and support-induced bias. This structure-aware design facilitates effective message propagation among keypoints and promotes semantic alignment across object categories with diverse keypoint topologies. Experimental results on the MP-100 dataset show that our method achieves substantial gains over graph-support baselines under both 1- and 5-shot settings, while maintaining competitive performance against text-support counterparts.
title GenCape: Structure-Inductive Generative Modeling for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13151