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Enhanced 3D Human Pose Estimation from Videos by using Attention-Based Neural Network with Dilated Convolutions

4 Mar 2021arXiv:2103.03170archive 2025-07-28

Ruixu Liu, Ju Shen, He Wang, Chen Chen, Sen-ching Cheung, Vijayan K. Asari

The attention mechanism provides a sequential prediction framework for learning spatial models with enhanced implicit temporal consistency. In this work, we show a systematic design (from 2D to 3D) for how conventional networks and other forms of constraints can be incorporated into the attention framework for learning long-range dependencies for the task of pose estimation. The contribution of this paper is to provide a systematic approach for designing and training of attention-based models for the end-to-end pose estimation, with the flexibility and scalability of arbitrary video sequences as input. We achieve this by adapting temporal receptive field via a multi-scale structure of dilated convolutions. Besides, the proposed architecture can be easily adapted to a causal model enabling real-time performance. Any off-the-shelf 2D pose estimation systems, e.g. Mocap libraries, can be easily integrated in an ad-hoc fashion. Our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance and outperforms existing methods by reducing the mean per joint position error to 33.4 mm on Human3.6M dataset.

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2D Pose Estimation3D Human Pose EstimationPose Estimation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M Attention (T=243 CPN) Average MPJPE (mm) 44.8 #41 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M Attention (T=243 CPN) Multi-View or Monocular Monocular #41 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M Attention (T=243 CPN) Using 2D ground-truth joints No #41 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation HumanEva-I Attention (T=27 MA) Mean Reconstruction Error (mm) 15.4 #6 of 31 Archive leaderboard report

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