Title
Multi-Person Pose Estimation via Column Generation.
Abstract
We study the problem of multi-person pose estimation in natural images. A pose estimate describes the spatial position and identity (head, foot, knee, etc.) of every non-occluded body part of a person. Pose estimation is difficult due to issues such as deformation and variation in body configurations and occlusion of parts, while multi-person settings add complications such as an unknown number of people, with unknown appearance and possible interactions in their poses and part locations. We give a novel integer program formulation of the multi-person pose estimation problem, in which variables correspond to assignments of parts in the image to poses in a two-tier, hierarchical way. This enables us to develop an efficient custom optimization procedure based on column generation, where columns are produced by exact optimization of very small scale integer programs. We demonstrate improved accuracy and speed for our method on the MPII multi-person pose estimation benchmark.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Integer,Computer vision,Column generation,Pattern recognition,Computer science,3D pose estimation,Pose,Artificial intelligence,Articulated body pose estimation
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1709.05982
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaofei Wang1192.73
Chong Zhang2385.40
Miguel Ángel González Ballester321234.31
Alexander T. Ihler41377112.01
Julian Yarkony5769.20