Title
Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Images: A Comprehensive Survey.
Abstract
Human pose estimation refers to the estimation of the location of body parts and how they are connected in an image. Human pose estimation from monocular images has wide applications (e.g., image indexing). Several surveys on human pose estimation can be found in the literature, but they focus on a certain category; for example, model-based approaches or human motion analysis, etc. As far as we know, an overall review of this problem domain has yet to be provided. Furthermore, recent advancements based on deep learning have brought novel algorithms for this problem. In this paper, a comprehensive survey of human pose estimation from monocular images is carried out including milestone works and recent advancements. Based on one standard pipeline for the solution of computer vision problems, this survey splits the problem into several modules: feature extraction and description, human body models, and modeling methods. Problem modeling methods are approached based on two means of categorization in this survey. One way to categorize includes top-down and bottom-up methods, and another way includes generative and discriminative methods. Considering the fact that one direct application of human pose estimation is to provide initialization for automatic video surveillance, there are additional sections for motion-related methods in all modules: motion features, motion models, and motion-based methods. Finally, the paper also collects 26 publicly available data sets for validation and provides error measurement methods that are frequently used.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/s16121966
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
human pose estimation,human body models,generative methods,discriminative methods,top-down methods,bottom-up methods
Computer vision,Problem domain,3D pose estimation,Pose,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Articulated body pose estimation,Initialization,Deep learning,Discriminative model
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
16
12.0
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenjuan Gong18010.28
Xuena Zhang240.44
Jordi Gonzalez361748.02
Andrews Sobral43609.80
Thierry Bouwmans5100743.33
Changhe Tu628834.47
El-hadi Zahzah734216.68