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Skeleton-aware multi-scale heatmap regression for 2D hand pose estimation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-05-25 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Existing RGB-based 2D hand pose estimation methods learn the joint locations from a single resolution, which is not suitable for different hand sizes. To tackle this problem, we propose a new deep learning-based framework that consists of two main modules. The former presents a segmentation-based approach to detect the hand skeleton and localize the hand bounding box. The second module regresses the 2D joint locations through a multi-scale heatmap regression approach that exploits the predicted hand skeleton as a constraint to guide the model. Furthermore, we construct a new dataset that is suitable for both hand detection and pose estimation. We qualitatively and quantitatively validate our method on two datasets. Results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art and can recover the pose even in cluttered images and complex poses.

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@article{arxiv.2105.10904,
  title  = {Skeleton-aware multi-scale heatmap regression for 2D hand pose estimation},
  author = {Ikram Kourbane and Yakup Genc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.10904},
  year   = {2021}
}

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5 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables

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