In-bed Pressure-based Pose Estimation using Image Space Representation Learning
Abstract
Recent advances in deep pose estimation models have proven to be effective in a wide range of applications such as health monitoring, sports, animations, and robotics. However, pose estimation models fail to generalize when facing images acquired from in-bed pressure sensing systems. In this paper, we address this challenge by presenting a novel end-to-end framework capable of accurately locating body parts from vague pressure data. Our method exploits the idea of equipping an off-the-shelf pose estimator with a deep trainable neural network, which pre-processes and prepares the pressure data for subsequent pose estimation. Our model transforms the ambiguous pressure maps to images containing shapes and structures similar to the common input domain of the pre-existing pose estimation methods. As a result, we show that our model is able to reconstruct unclear body parts, which in turn enables pose estimators to accurately and robustly estimate the pose. We train and test our method on a manually annotated public pressure map dataset using a combination of loss functions. Results confirm the effectiveness of our method by the high visual quality in the generated images and the high pose estimation rates achieved.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.08919,
title = {In-bed Pressure-based Pose Estimation using Image Space Representation Learning},
author = {Vandad Davoodnia and Saeed Ghorbani and Ali Etemad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.08919},
year = {2021}
}
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