Title
Joint Estimation of Human Pose and Conversational Groups from Social Scenes.
Abstract
Despite many attempts in the last few years, automatic analysis of social scenes captured by wide-angle camera networks remains a very challenging task due to the low resolution of targets, background clutter and frequent and persistent occlusions. In this paper, we present a novel framework for jointly estimating (i) head, body orientations of targets and (ii) conversational groups called from social scenes. In contrast to prior works that have (a) exploited the limited range of head and body orientations to jointly learn both, or (b) employed the mutual head (but not body) pose of interactors for deducing F-formations, we propose a weakly-supervised learning algorithm for joint inference. Our algorithm employs body pose as the primary cue for F-formation estimation, and an alternating optimization strategy is proposed to iteratively refine F-formation and pose estimates. We demonstrate the increased efficacy of joint inference over the state-of-the-art via extensive experiments on three social datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-017-1026-6
International Journal of Computer Vision
Keywords
Field
DocType
Head and body pose estimation,F-formation estimation,Semi-supervised learning,Convex optimization,Conversational groups,Video surveillance
Computer vision,Semi-supervised learning,Clutter,Inference,Computer science,3D pose estimation,Camera network,Artificial intelligence,Articulated body pose estimation,Convex optimization,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
126
2-4
0920-5691
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.39
40
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jagannadan Varadarajan117611.47
Ramanathan Subramanian246122.16
Samuel Rota Bulò356433.69
Narendra Ahuja47726956.74
Oswald Lanz546233.34
Elisa Ricci 00026139373.75