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P-STMO: Pre-Trained Spatial Temporal Many-to-One Model for 3D Human Pose Estimation

15 Mar 2022arXiv:2203.07628archive 2025-07-28

Wenkang Shan, Zhenhua Liu, Xinfeng Zhang, Shanshe Wang, Siwei Ma, Wen Gao

This paper introduces a novel Pre-trained Spatial Temporal Many-to-One (P-STMO) model for 2D-to-3D human pose estimation task. To reduce the difficulty of capturing spatial and temporal information, we divide this task into two stages: pre-training (Stage I) and fine-tuning (Stage II). In Stage I, a self-supervised pre-training sub-task, termed masked pose modeling, is proposed. The human joints in the input sequence are randomly masked in both spatial and temporal domains. A general form of denoising auto-encoder is exploited to recover the original 2D poses and the encoder is capable of capturing spatial and temporal dependencies in this way. In Stage II, the pre-trained encoder is loaded to STMO model and fine-tuned. The encoder is followed by a many-to-one frame aggregator to predict the 3D pose in the current frame. Especially, an MLP block is utilized as the spatial feature extractor in STMO, which yields better performance than other methods. In addition, a temporal downsampling strategy is proposed to diminish data redundancy. Extensive experiments on two benchmarks show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods with fewer parameters and less computational overhead. For example, our P-STMO model achieves 42.1mm MPJPE on Human3.6M dataset when using 2D poses from CPN as inputs. Meanwhile, it brings a 1.5-7.1 times speedup to state-of-the-art methods. Code is available at https://github.com/paTRICK-swk/P-STMO.

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3D Human Pose EstimationDenoisingMonocular 3D Human Pose EstimationPose Estimation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO (N=243) Average MPJPE (mm) 42.1 #23 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO (N=243) Multi-View or Monocular Monocular #23 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO (N=243) PA-MPJPE 34.4 #23 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO (N=243) Using 2D ground-truth joints No #23 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO-S (N=81) Average MPJPE (mm) 44.1 #34 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO-S (N=81) Multi-View or Monocular Monocular #34 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO-S (N=81) Using 2D ground-truth joints No #34 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation MPI-INF-3DHP P-STMO (N=81) AUC 75.8 #15 of 108 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation MPI-INF-3DHP P-STMO (N=81) MPJPE 32.2 #15 of 108 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation MPI-INF-3DHP P-STMO (N=81) PCK 97.9 #15 of 108 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO (N=243) 2D detector CPN #12 of 52 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO (N=243) Average MPJPE (mm) 42.1 #12 of 52 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO (N=243) Frames Needed 243 #12 of 52 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO (N=243) Need Ground Truth 2D Pose No #12 of 52 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M P-STMO (N=243) Use Video Sequence Yes #12 of 52 Archive leaderboard report

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CPNConvolutionNon Maximum Suppression

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