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Learning to Estimate Human Pose with Data Driven Belief Propagation

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Learning to Estimate Human Pose with Data Driven Belief Propagation
We propose a statistical formulation for 2-D human pose estimation from single images. The human body configuration is modeled by a Markov network and the estimation problem is to infer pose parameters from image cues such as appearance, shape, edge, and color. From a set of hand labeled images, we accumulate prior knowledge of 2-D body shapes by learning their low-dimensional representations for inference of pose parameters. A data driven belief propagation Monte Carlo algorithm, utilizing importance sampling functions built from bottom-up visual cues, is proposed for efficient probabilistic inference. Contrasted to the few sequential statistical formulations in the literature, our algorithm integrates both top-down as well as bottom-up reasoning mechanisms, and can carry out the inference tasks in parallel. Experimental results demonstrate the potency and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in estimating 2-D human pose from single images.
Gang Hua, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Ying Wu
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where CVPR
Authors Gang Hua, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Ying Wu
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