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SEFD: Learning to Distill Complex Pose and Occlusion

1 Jan 2023ICCV 2023 1archive 2025-07-28

ChangHee Yang, Kyeongbo Kong, SungJun Min, Dongyoon Wee, Ho-Deok Jang, Geonho Cha, SukJu Kang

This paper addresses the problem of three-dimensional (3D) human mesh estimation in complex poses and occluded situations. Although many improvements have been made in 3D human mesh estimation using the two-dimensional (2D) pose with occlusion between humans, occlusion from complex poses and other objects remains a consistent problem. Therefore, we propose the novel Skinned Multi-Person Linear (SMPL) Edge Feature Distillation (SEFD) that demonstrates robustness to complex poses and occlusions, without increasing the number of parameters compared to the baseline model. The model generates an SMPL overlapping edge similar to the ground truth that contains target person boundary and occlusion information, performing subsequent feature distillation in a simple edge map. We also perform experiments on various benchmarks and exhibit fidelity both qualitatively and quantitatively. Extensive experiments prove that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art method by 2.8% in MPJPE and 1.9% in MPVPE on a benchmark 3DPW dataset in the presence of domain gap. Also, our method is superior in 3DPW-OCC, 3DPW-PC, RH-Dataset, OCHuman, CrowdPose, and LSP dataset in which occlusion, complex pose, and domain gap exist. The code and occlusion & complex pose annotation will be available at https: //anonymous.4open.science/r/SEFD-B7F8/

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2D Human Pose Estimation3D Human Pose Estimation3D Human Reconstruction

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
2D Human Pose Estimation OCHuman SEFD Test AP 44.1 #2 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW SEFD_GT MPJPE 64.75 #12 of 119 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW SEFD_GT MPVPE 78.36 #12 of 119 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW SEFD_GT PA-MPJPE 43.79 #12 of 119 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW SEFD MPJPE 77.37 #39 of 119 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW SEFD MPVPE 92.60 #39 of 119 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation 3DPW SEFD PA-MPJPE 49.39 #39 of 119 Archive leaderboard report

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