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SoloPose: One-Shot Kinematic 3D Human Pose Estimation with Video Data Augmentation

15 Dec 2023arXiv:2312.10195archive 2025-07-28

David C. Jeong, Hongji Liu, Saunder Salazar, Jessie Jiang, Christopher A. Kitts

While recent two-stage many-to-one deep learning models have demonstrated great success in 3D human pose estimation, such models are inefficient ways to detect 3D key points in a sequential video relative to one-shot and many-to-many models. Another key drawback of two-stage and many-to-one models is that errors in the first stage will be passed onto the second stage. In this paper, we introduce SoloPose, a novel one-shot, many-to-many spatio-temporal transformer model for kinematic 3D human pose estimation of video. SoloPose is further fortified by HeatPose, a 3D heatmap based on Gaussian Mixture Model distributions that factors target key points as well as kinematically adjacent key points. Finally, we address data diversity constraints with the 3D AugMotion Toolkit, a methodology to augment existing 3D human pose datasets, specifically by projecting four top public 3D human pose datasets (Humans3.6M, MADS, AIST Dance++, MPI INF 3DHP) into a novel dataset (Humans7.1M) with a universal coordinate system. Extensive experiments are conducted on Human3.6M as well as the augmented Humans7.1M dataset, and SoloPose demonstrates superior results relative to the state-of-the-art approaches.

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3D Human Pose EstimationData AugmentationDiversityPose Estimation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M SoloPose Average MPJPE (mm) 38.9 #15 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M SoloPose Multi-View or Monocular Monocular #15 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M SoloPose PA-MPJPE 29.9 #15 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M SoloPose Using 2D ground-truth joints No #15 of 88 Archive leaderboard report

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