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Human pose estimation (HPE) is a classical task in computer vision that focuses on representing the orientation of a person by identifying the positions of their joints. We design a lighterversion of the stacked hourglass network with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Jameel Hassan Abdul Samadh , Salwa K. Al Khatib

This paper introduces a new architecture for human pose estimation using a multi- layer convolutional network architecture and a modified learning technique that learns low-level features and higher-level weak spatial models. Unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Arjun Jain , Jonathan Tompson , Mykhaylo Andriluka , Graham W. Taylor , Christoph Bregler

3D human pose estimation errors would propagate along the human body topology and accumulate at the end joints of limbs. Inspired by the backtracking mechanism in automatic control systems, we design an Intra-Part Constraint module that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jialun Cai , Hong Liu , Runwei Ding , Wenhao Li , Jianbing Wu , Miaoju Ban

Vision network designs, including Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Transformers, have significantly advanced the field of computer vision. Yet, their complex computations pose challenges for practical deployments, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Like many computer vision problems, human pose estimation is a challenging problem in that recognizing a body part requires not only information from local area but also from areas with large spatial distance. In order to spatially pass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Te Qi , Bayram Bayramli , Usman Ali , Qinchuan Zhang , Hongtao Lu

Pose estimation plays a critical role in human-centered vision applications. However, it is difficult to deploy state-of-the-art HRNet-based pose estimation models on resource-constrained edge devices due to the high computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yihan Wang , Muyang Li , Han Cai , Wei-Ming Chen , Song Han

High resolution and advanced semantic representation are both vital for dense prediction. Empirically, low-resolution feature maps often achieve stronger semantic representation, and high-resolution feature maps generally can better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jian Wang , Xiang Long , Guowei Chen , Zewu Wu , Zeyu Chen , Errui Ding

UNet and its variants have widespread applications in medical image segmentation. However, the substantial number of parameters and computational complexity of these models make them less suitable for use in clinical settings with limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Yujie Ding , Shenghua Teng , Zuoyong Li , Xiao Chen

Lightweight and efficiency are critical drivers for the practical application of image super-resolution (SR) algorithms. We propose a simple and effective approach, ShuffleMixer, for lightweight image super-resolution that explores large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Long Sun , Jinshan Pan , Jinhui Tang

Most of the current top-down multi-person pose estimation lightweight methods are based on multi-branch parallel pure CNN network architecture, which often struggle to capture the global context required for detecting semantically complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Biao Guo , Cong Zhou , Fangmin Guo , Xiaonan Luo , Guibo Luo , Feng Zhang

Human pose estimation (HPE), particularly multi-person pose estimation (MPPE), has been applied in many domains such as human-machine systems. However, the current MPPE methods generally run on powerful GPU systems and take a lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Gongjin Lan , Yu Wu , Qi Hao

We introduce an extremely computation-efficient CNN architecture named ShuffleNet, which is designed specially for mobile devices with very limited computing power (e.g., 10-150 MFLOPs). The new architecture utilizes two new operations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Xiangyu Zhang , Xinyu Zhou , Mengxiao Lin , Jian Sun

We propose a lightweight CPU network based on the MKLDNN acceleration strategy, named PP-LCNet, which improves the performance of lightweight models on multiple tasks. This paper lists technologies which can improve network accuracy while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Cheng Cui , Tingquan Gao , Shengyu Wei , Yuning Du , Ruoyu Guo , Shuilong Dong , Bin Lu , Ying Zhou , Xueying Lv , Qiwen Liu , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma

Many high-performance networks were not designed with lightweight application scenarios in mind from the outset, which has greatly restricted their scope of application. This paper takes ConvNeXt as the research object and significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Fang Wang , Huitao Li , Wenhan Chao , Zheng Zhuo , Yiran Ji , Chang Peng , Yupeng Sun

Deep models have achieved significant process on single image super-resolution (SISR) tasks, in particular large models with large kernel ($3\times3$ or more). However, the heavy computational footprint of such models prevents their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Gang Wu , Junjun Jiang , Kui Jiang , Xianming Liu

In this paper, we propose an efficient human pose estimation network -- SFM (slender fusion model) by fusing multi-level features and adding lightweight attention blocks -- HSA (High-Level Spatial Attention). Many existing methods on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Zhiyuan Ren , Yaohai Zhou , Yizhe Chen , Ruisong Zhou , Yayu Gao

Human pose estimation are of importance for visual understanding tasks such as action recognition and human-computer interaction. In this work, we present a Multiple Stage High-Resolution Network (Multi-Stage HRNet) to tackling the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Junjie Huang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang

This paper proposed LightSleepNet - a light-weight, 1-d Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based personalized architecture for real-time sleep staging, which can be implemented on various mobile platforms with limited hardware resources.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Yiqiao Liao , Chao Zhang , Milin Zhang , Zhihua Wang , Xiang Xie

Human pose estimation (HPE) for 3D skeleton reconstruction in telemedicine has long received attention. Although the development of deep learning has made HPE methods in telemedicine simpler and easier to use, addressing low accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Boce Hu , Chenfei Zhu , Xupeng Ai , Sunil K. Agrawal

Recently, many Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) have been successfully employed in bitemporal SAR image change detection. However, most of the existing networks are too heavy and occupy a large volume of memory for storage and calculation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Rongfang Wang , Fan Ding , Licheng Jiao , Jia-Wei Chen , Bo Liu , Wenping Ma , Mi Wang