Lab Meeting September 27, 2010 (Wang Li): Monocular 3D Pose Estimation and Tracking by Detection (CVPR 2010)

Monocular 3D Pose Estimation and Tracking by Detection

Mykhaylo Andriluka
Stefan Roth
Bernt Schiele

Abstract
Automatic recovery of 3D human pose from monocular
image sequences is a challenging and important research
topic with numerous applications. Although current methods
are able to recover 3D pose for a single person in controlled
environments, they are severely challenged by realworld
scenarios, such as crowded street scenes. To address
this problem, we propose a three-stage process building on
a number of recent advances. The first stage obtains an initial
estimate of the 2D articulation and viewpoint of the person
from single frames. The second stage allows early data
association across frames based on tracking-by-detection. The third and
final stage uses those tracklet-based estimates as robust image
observations to reliably recover 3D pose. We demonstrate
state-of-the-art performance on the HumanEva II
benchmark, and also show the applicability of our approach
to articulated 3D tracking in realistic street conditions.

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