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Learning Local-Global Contextual Adaptation for Multi-Person Pose Estimation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022-03-03 v2

Abstract

This paper studies the problem of multi-person pose estimation in a bottom-up fashion. With a new and strong observation that the localization issue of the center-offset formulation can be remedied in a local-window search scheme in an ideal situation, we propose a multi-person pose estimation approach, dubbed as LOGO-CAP, by learning the LOcal-GlObal Contextual Adaptation for human Pose. Specifically, our approach learns the keypoint attraction maps (KAMs) from the local keypoints expansion maps (KEMs) in small local windows in the first step, which are subsequently treated as dynamic convolutional kernels on the keypoints-focused global heatmaps for contextual adaptation, achieving accurate multi-person pose estimation. Our method is end-to-end trainable with near real-time inference speed in a single forward pass, obtaining state-of-the-art performance on the COCO keypoint benchmark for bottom-up human pose estimation. With the COCO trained model, our method also outperforms prior arts by a large margin on the challenging OCHuman dataset.

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@article{arxiv.2109.03622,
  title  = {Learning Local-Global Contextual Adaptation for Multi-Person Pose Estimation},
  author = {Nan Xue and Tianfu Wu and Gui-Song Xia and Liangpei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.03622},
  year   = {2022}
}

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To appear in CVPR 2022

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