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SMAP: Single-Shot Multi-Person Absolute 3D Pose Estimation

26 Aug 2020ECCV 2020 8arXiv:2008.11469archive 2025-07-28

Jianan Zhen, Qi Fang, Jiaming Sun, Wentao Liu, Wei Jiang, Hujun Bao, Xiaowei Zhou

Recovering multi-person 3D poses with absolute scales from a single RGB image is a challenging problem due to the inherent depth and scale ambiguity from a single view. Addressing this ambiguity requires to aggregate various cues over the entire image, such as body sizes, scene layouts, and inter-person relationships. However, most previous methods adopt a top-down scheme that first performs 2D pose detection and then regresses the 3D pose and scale for each detected person individually, ignoring global contextual cues. In this paper, we propose a novel system that first regresses a set of 2.5D representations of body parts and then reconstructs the 3D absolute poses based on these 2.5D representations with a depth-aware part association algorithm. Such a single-shot bottom-up scheme allows the system to better learn and reason about the inter-person depth relationship, improving both 3D and 2D pose estimation. The experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves the state-of-the-art performance on the CMU Panoptic and MuPoTS-3D datasets and is applicable to in-the-wild videos.

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2D Pose Estimation3D Depth Estimation3D Human Pose Estimation3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation (absolute)3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation (root-relative)3D Pose EstimationPose Estimation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation Panoptic SMAP Average MPJPE (mm) 61.8 #18 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation (absolute) MuPoTS-3D SMAP 3DPCK 35.4 #11 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation (root-relative) MuPoTS-3D SMAP 3DPCK 73.5 #16 of 20 Archive leaderboard report

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