The goal of this paper is to advance the state-of-the-art of articulated pose estimation in scenes with multiple people. To that end we contribute on three fronts. We propose (1) improved body part detectors that generate effective bottom-up proposals for body parts; (2) novel image-conditioned pairwise terms that allow to assemble the proposals into a variable number of consistent body part configurations; and (3) an incremental optimization strategy that explores the search space more efficiently thus leading both to better performance and significant speed-up factors. Evaluation is done on two single-person and two multi-person pose estimation benchmarks. The proposed approach significantly outperforms best known multi-person pose estimation results while demonstrating competitive performance on the task of single person pose estimation. Models and code available at http://pose.mpi-inf.mpg.de
@article{arxiv.1605.03170,
title = {DeeperCut: A Deeper, Stronger, and Faster Multi-Person Pose Estimation Model},
author = {Eldar Insafutdinov and Leonid Pishchulin and Bjoern Andres and Mykhaylo Andriluka and Bernt Schiele},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.03170},
year = {2016}
}
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ECCV'16. High-res version at https://www.d2.mpi-inf.mpg.de/sites/default/files/insafutdinov16arxiv.pdf