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FrankMocap: A Monocular 3D Whole-Body Pose Estimation System via Regression and Integration

13 Aug 2021arXiv:2108.06428archive 2025-07-28

Yu Rong, Takaaki Shiratori, Hanbyul Joo

Most existing monocular 3D pose estimation approaches only focus on a single body part, neglecting the fact that the essential nuance of human motion is conveyed through a concert of subtle movements of face, hands, and body. In this paper, we present FrankMocap, a fast and accurate whole-body 3D pose estimation system that can produce 3D face, hands, and body simultaneously from in-the-wild monocular images. The core idea of FrankMocap is its modular design: We first run 3D pose regression methods for face, hands, and body independently, followed by composing the regression outputs via an integration module. The separate regression modules allow us to take full advantage of their state-of-the-art performances without compromising the original accuracy and reliability in practice. We develop three different integration modules that trade off between latency and accuracy. All of them are capable of providing simple yet effective solutions to unify the separate outputs into seamless whole-body pose estimation results. We quantitatively and qualitatively demonstrate that our modularized system outperforms both the optimization-based and end-to-end methods of estimating whole-body pose.

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3D Human Pose Estimation3D Human Reconstruction3D Pose EstimationPose Estimationregression

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW FrankMocap MPJPE 94.3 #92 of 119 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW FrankMocap PA-MPJPE 60 #92 of 119 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Reconstruction Expressive hands and faces dataset (EHF) FrankMocap MPJPE, left hand 13.2 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Reconstruction Expressive hands and faces dataset (EHF) FrankMocap MPJPE-14 62.3 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Reconstruction Expressive hands and faces dataset (EHF) FrankMocap PA V2V (mm), body only 52.7 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Reconstruction Expressive hands and faces dataset (EHF) FrankMocap PA V2V (mm), left hand 12.8 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Reconstruction Expressive hands and faces dataset (EHF) FrankMocap PA V2V (mm), whole body 57.5 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Reconstruction Expressive hands and faces dataset (EHF) FrankMocap TR V2V (mm), body only 80.1 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Reconstruction Expressive hands and faces dataset (EHF) FrankMocap TR V2V (mm), left hand 32.1 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Reconstruction Expressive hands and faces dataset (EHF) FrankMocap TR V2V (mm), whole body 76.9 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Reconstruction Expressive hands and faces dataset (EHF) FrankMocap mean P2S 31.6 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Reconstruction Expressive hands and faces dataset (EHF) FrankMocap median P2S 19.2 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report

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