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End-to-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation With Transformers

1 Jan 2022CVPR 2022 1archive 2025-07-28

Dahu Shi, Xing Wei, Liangqi Li, Ye Ren, Wenming Tan

Current methods of multi-person pose estimation typically treat the localization and association of body joints separately. In this paper, we propose the first fully end-to-end multi-person Pose Estimation framework with TRansformers, termed PETR. Our method views pose estimation as a hierarchical set prediction problem and effectively removes the need for many hand-crafted modules like RoI cropping, NMS and grouping post-processing. In PETR, multiple pose queries are learned to directly reason a set of full-body poses. Then a joint decoder is utilized to further refine the poses by exploring the kinematic relations between body joints. With the attention mechanism, the proposed method is able to adaptively attend to the features most relevant to target keypoints, which largely overcomes the feature misalignment difficulty in pose estimation and improves the performance considerably. Extensive experiments on the MS COCO and CrowdPose benchmarks show that PETR plays favorably against state-of-the-art approaches in terms of both accuracy and efficiency. The code and models are available at https://github.com/hikvision-research/opera.

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