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Multi-initialization Optimization Network for Accurate 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation

24 Dec 2021arXiv:2112.12917archive 2025-07-28

Zhiwei Liu, Xiangyu Zhu, Lu Yang, Xiang Yan, Ming Tang, Zhen Lei, Guibo Zhu, Xuetao Feng, Yan Wang, Jinqiao Wang

3D human pose and shape recovery from a monocular RGB image is a challenging task. Existing learning based methods highly depend on weak supervision signals, e.g. 2D and 3D joint location, due to the lack of in-the-wild paired 3D supervision. However, considering the 2D-to-3D ambiguities existed in these weak supervision labels, the network is easy to get stuck in local optima when trained with such labels. In this paper, we reduce the ambituity by optimizing multiple initializations. Specifically, we propose a three-stage framework named Multi-Initialization Optimization Network (MION). In the first stage, we strategically select different coarse 3D reconstruction candidates which are compatible with the 2D keypoints of input sample. Each coarse reconstruction can be regarded as an initialization leads to one optimization branch. In the second stage, we design a mesh refinement transformer (MRT) to respectively refine each coarse reconstruction result via a self-attention mechanism. Finally, a Consistency Estimation Network (CEN) is proposed to find the best result from mutiple candidates by evaluating if the visual evidence in RGB image matches a given 3D reconstruction. Experiments demonstrate that our Multi-Initialization Optimization Network outperforms existing 3D mesh based methods on multiple public benchmarks.

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3D Human Pose Estimation3D Reconstruction3D human pose and shape estimation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW MION MPJPE 81.98 #77 of 119 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW MION PA-MPJPE 52.34 #77 of 119 Archive leaderboard report

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