Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

End-to-end Recovery of Human Shape and Pose

2018

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We describe Human Mesh Recovery (HMR), an end-to-end framework for reconstructing a full 3D mesh of a human body from a single RGB image. In contrast to most current methods that compute 2D or 3D joint locations, we produce a richer and more useful mesh representation that is parameterized by shape and 3D joint angles. The main objective is to minimize the reprojection loss of keypoints, which allows our model to be trained using in-the-wild images that only have ground truth 2D annotations. However, the reprojection loss alone is highly underconstrained. In this work we address this problem by introducing an adversary trained to tell whether human body shape and pose parameters are real or not using a large database of 3D human meshes. We show that HMR can be trained with and without using any paired 2D-to-3D supervision. We do not rely on intermediate 2D keypoint detections and infer 3D pose and shape parameters directly from image pixels. Our model runs in real-time given a bounding box containing the person. We demonstrate our approach on various images in-the-wild and out-perform previous optimization-based methods that output 3D meshes and show competitive results on tasks such as 3D joint location estimation and part segmentation.

Author(s): Angjoo Kanazawa and Michael J. Black and David W. Jacobs and Jitendra Malik
Book Title: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Pages: 7122--7131
Year: 2018
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society

Department(s): Perceiving Systems
Research Project(s): Regressing Humans
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference

Event Name: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018
Event Place: Salt Lake City, USA

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@inproceedings{Kanazawa:CVPR:2018,
  title = {End-to-end Recovery of Human Shape and Pose},
  author = {Kanazawa, Angjoo and Black, Michael J. and Jacobs, David W. and Malik, Jitendra},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  pages = {7122--7131},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {}
}