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DiffPose: Toward More Reliable 3D Pose Estimation

30 Nov 2022CVPR 2023 1arXiv:2211.16940archive 2025-07-28

Jia Gong, Lin Geng Foo, Zhipeng Fan, Qiuhong Ke, Hossein Rahmani, Jun Liu

Monocular 3D human pose estimation is quite challenging due to the inherent ambiguity and occlusion, which often lead to high uncertainty and indeterminacy. On the other hand, diffusion models have recently emerged as an effective tool for generating high-quality images from noise. Inspired by their capability, we explore a novel pose estimation framework (DiffPose) that formulates 3D pose estimation as a reverse diffusion process. We incorporate novel designs into our DiffPose to facilitate the diffusion process for 3D pose estimation: a pose-specific initialization of pose uncertainty distributions, a Gaussian Mixture Model-based forward diffusion process, and a context-conditioned reverse diffusion process. Our proposed DiffPose significantly outperforms existing methods on the widely used pose estimation benchmarks Human3.6M and MPI-INF-3DHP. Project page: https://gongjia0208.github.io/Diffpose/.

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3D Human Pose Estimation3D Pose EstimationMonocular 3D Human Pose EstimationPose Estimation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Human Pose Estimation MPI-INF-3DHP DiffPose AUC 75.9 #13 of 108 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation MPI-INF-3DHP DiffPose MPJPE 29.1 #13 of 108 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation MPI-INF-3DHP DiffPose PCK 98 #13 of 108 Archive leaderboard report

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