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Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimation

25 Feb 2019CVPR 2019 6arXiv:1902.09212archive 2025-07-28

Ke Sun, Bin Xiao, Dong Liu, Jingdong Wang

This is an official pytorch implementation of Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimation. In this work, we are interested in the human pose estimation problem with a focus on learning reliable high-resolution representations. Most existing methods recover high-resolution representations from low-resolution representations produced by a high-to-low resolution network. Instead, our proposed network maintains high-resolution representations through the whole process. We start from a high-resolution subnetwork as the first stage, gradually add high-to-low resolution subnetworks one by one to form more stages, and connect the mutli-resolution subnetworks in parallel. We conduct repeated multi-scale fusions such that each of the high-to-low resolution representations receives information from other parallel representations over and over, leading to rich high-resolution representations. As a result, the predicted keypoint heatmap is potentially more accurate and spatially more precise. We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of our network through the superior pose estimation results over two benchmark datasets: the COCO keypoint detection dataset and the MPII Human Pose dataset. The code and models have been publicly available at \url{https://github.com/leoxiaobin/deep-high-resolution-net.pytorch}.

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Tasks

2D Human Pose Estimation2D Pose Estimation3D Human Pose Estimation3D Pose EstimationInstance SegmentationKeypoint DetectionMulti-Person Pose EstimationObject DetectionPose EstimationPose TrackingRepresentation LearningVocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
2D Human Pose Estimation COCO-WholeBody HRNet WB 43.2 #12 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation COCO-WholeBody HRNet body 65.9 #12 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation COCO-WholeBody HRNet face 52.3 #12 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation COCO-WholeBody HRNet foot 31.4 #12 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation COCO-WholeBody HRNet hand 30.0 #12 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation Human-Art HRNet-w48 AP 0.417 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation Human-Art HRNet-w48 AP (gt bbox) 0.769 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation Human-Art HRNet-w32 AP 0.399 #7 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation Human-Art HRNet-w32 AP (gt bbox) 0.754 #7 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
2D Pose Estimation HARPER HRNet PCK 86,8 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
3D Pose Estimation HARPER HRNet + Depth Average MPJPE (mm) 151 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Instance Segmentation COCO minival HTC (HRNetV2p-W48) mask AP 41.0 #68 of 93 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) HRNet-48(384x288) Test AP 75.5 #9 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) HRNet-48(384x288) Validation AP 76.3 #9 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) HRNet-32 Validation AP 75.8 #21 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev HRNet* AP50 92.7 #1 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev HRNet* AP75 84.5 #1 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev HRNet* APL 83.1 #1 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev HRNet* APM 73.4 #1 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev HRNet* AR 82.0 #1 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev HRNet AP50 92.5 #4 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev HRNet AP75 83.3 #4 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev HRNet APL 81.5 #4 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev HRNet APM 71.9 #4 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev HRNet AR 80.5 #4 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC HRNet (HRNet-w48 ) AP 33.5 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC HRNet (HRNet-w48 ) AP50 78.0 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC HRNet (HRNet-w48 ) AP75 23.6 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC HRNet (HRNet-w48 ) AR 37.9 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC HRNet (HRNet-w48 ) AR50 80.0 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC HRNet (HRNet-w32) AP 32.3 #6 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC HRNet (HRNet-w32) AP50 76.2 #6 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC HRNet (HRNet-w32) AP75 21.9 #6 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC HRNet (HRNet-w32) AR 36.6 #6 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC HRNet (HRNet-w32) AR50 78.9 #6 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation BRACE HRNet fine-tuned on BRACE Average Precision 0.357 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation BRACE HRNet fine-tuned on BRACE Average Recall 0.445 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation BRACE HRNet pre-trained on COCO Average Precision 0.158 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation BRACE HRNet pre-trained on COCO Average Recall 0.202 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev HRNet-W48 + extra data AP 77 #12 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev HRNet-W48 + extra data AP50 92.7 #12 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev HRNet-W48 + extra data AP75 84.5 #12 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev HRNet-W48 + extra data APL 83.1 #12 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev HRNet-W48 + extra data APM 73.4 #12 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev HRNet-W48 + extra data AR 82 #12 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO val2017 HRNet (256x192) AP 75.3 #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO val2017 HRNet (256x192) AP50 - #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO val2017 HRNet (256x192) AP75 - #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO val2017 HRNet (256x192) AR - #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation MPII Human Pose HRNet-W32 PCKh-0.5 92.3 #11 of 46 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Tracking PoseTrack2017 HRNet-W48 COCO MOTA 57.93 #4 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Tracking PoseTrack2017 HRNet-W48 COCO mAP 74.95 #4 of 10 Archive leaderboard report

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