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Removing the Bias of Integral Pose Regression

1 Jan 2021ICCV 2021 10archive 2025-07-28

Kerui Gu, Linlin Yang, Angela Yao

Heatmap-based detection methods are dominant for 2D human pose estimation even though regression is more intuitive. The introduction of the integral regression method, which, architecture-wise uses an implicit heatmap, brings the two approaches even closer together. This begs the question -- does detection really outperform regression? In this paper, we investigate the difference in supervision between the heatmap-based detection and integral regression, as this is the key remaining difference between the two approaches. In the process, we discover an underlying bias behind integral pose regression that arises from taking the expectation after the softmax function. To counter the bias, we present a compensation method which we find to improve integral regression accuracy on all 2D pose estimation benchmarks. We further propose a simple joint detection and bias-compensated regression method that considerably outperforms state-of-the-art baselines with few added components.

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