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Exploiting Spatial-Temporal Relationships for 3D Pose Estimation via Graph Convolutional Networks

1 Oct 2019ICCV 2019 10archive 2025-07-28

Yujun Cai, Liuhao Ge, Jun Liu, Jianfei Cai, Tat-Jen Cham, Junsong Yuan, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

Despite great progress in 3D pose estimation from single-view images or videos, it remains a challenging task due to the substantial depth ambiguity and severe self-occlusions. Motivated by the effectiveness of incorporating spatial dependencies and temporal consistencies to alleviate these issues, we propose a novel graph-based method to tackle the problem of 3D human body and 3D hand pose estimation from a short sequence of 2D joint detections. Particularly, domain knowledge about the human hand (body) configurations is explicitly incorporated into the graph convolutional operations to meet the specific demand of the 3D pose estimation. Furthermore, we introduce a local-to-global network architecture, which is capable of learning multi-scale features for the graph-based representations. We evaluate the proposed method on challenging benchmark datasets for both 3D hand pose estimation and 3D body pose estimation. Experimental results show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on both tasks.

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3D Hand Pose Estimation3D Human Pose Estimation3D Pose EstimationHand Pose EstimationPose Estimation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M STRGCN (T=7) Average MPJPE (mm) 48.8 #54 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M STRGCN (T=7) Multi-View or Monocular Monocular #54 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M STRGCN (T=7) Using 2D ground-truth joints No #54 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M STRGCN (T=3) Average MPJPE (mm) 49.1 #55 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M STRGCN (T=3) Multi-View or Monocular Monocular #55 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M STRGCN (T=3) Using 2D ground-truth joints No #55 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M STRGCN (T=1) Average MPJPE (mm) 50.6 #67 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M STRGCN (T=1) Multi-View or Monocular Monocular #67 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M STRGCN (T=1) Using 2D ground-truth joints No #67 of 88 Archive leaderboard report

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