Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

Unite the People: Closing the Loop Between 3D and 2D Human Representations

2017

Conference Paper

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3D models provide a common ground for different representations of human bodies. In turn, robust 2D estimation has proven to be a powerful tool to obtain 3D fits “in-the-wild”. However, depending on the level of detail, it can be hard to impossible to acquire labeled data for training 2D estimators on large scale. We propose a hybrid approach to this problem: with an extended version of the recently introduced SMPLify method, we obtain high quality 3D body model fits for multiple human pose datasets. Human annotators solely sort good and bad fits. This procedure leads to an initial dataset, UP-3D, with rich annotations. With a comprehensive set of experiments, we show how this data can be used to train discriminative models that produce results with an unprecedented level of detail: our models predict 31 segments and 91 landmark locations on the body. Using the 91 landmark pose estimator, we present state-of-the art results for 3D human pose and shape estimation using an order of magnitude less training data and without assumptions about gender or pose in the fitting procedure. We show that UP-3D can be enhanced with these improved fits to grow in quantity and quality, which makes the system deployable on large scale. The data, code and models are available for research purposes.

Author(s): Christoph Lassner and Javier Romero and Martin Kiefel and Federica Bogo and Michael J. Black and Peter V. Gehler
Book Title: Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017
Pages: 4704-4713
Year: 2017
Month: July
Day: 21-26
Publisher: IEEE

Department(s): Perceiving Systems
Research Project(s): Regressing Humans
Optimizing Human Pose and Shape
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference

Event Name: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Event Place: Honolulu, HI, USA

Address: Piscataway, NJ, USA
ISBN: 978-1-5386-0457-1
ISSN: 1063-6919

Links: arXiv
project/code/data

BibTex

@inproceedings{Lassner:UP:2017,
  title = {Unite the People: Closing the Loop Between {3D} and {2D} Human Representations},
  author = {Lassner, Christoph and Romero, Javier and Kiefel, Martin and Bogo, Federica and Black, Michael J. and Gehler, Peter V.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017},
  pages = {4704-4713},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
  month = jul,
  year = {2017},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {7}
}