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"Teaching Independent Parts Separately" (TIPSy-GAN) : Improving Accuracy and Stability in Unsupervised Adversarial 2D to 3D Pose Estimation
Peter Hardy, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Hansung Kim
We present TIPSy-GAN, a new approach to improve the accuracy and stability in unsupervised adversarial 2D to 3D human pose estimation. In our work we demonstrate that the human kinematic skeleton should not be assumed as a single spatially codependent structure; in fact, we posit when a full 2D pose is provided during training, there is an inherent bias learned where the 3D coordinate of a keypoint is spatially codependent on the 2D coordinates of all other keypoints. To investigate our hypothesis we follow previous adversarial approaches but train two generators on spatially independent parts of the kinematic skeleton, the torso and the legs. We find that improving the self-consistency cycle is key to lowering the evaluation error and therefore introduce new consistency constraints during training. A TIPSy model is produced via knowledge distillation from these generators which can predict the 3D ordinates for the entire 2D pose with improved results. Furthermore, we address an unanswered question in prior work of how long to train in a truly unsupervised scenario. We show that for two independent generators training adversarially has improved stability than that of a solo generator which collapses. TIPSy decreases the average error by 17\% when compared to that of a baseline solo generator on the Human3.6M dataset. TIPSy improves upon other unsupervised approaches while also performing strongly against supervised and weakly-supervised approaches during evaluation on both the Human3.6M and MPI-INF-3DHP datasets.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Human Pose Estimation | MPI-INF-3DHP | TIPSy-GAN (GT) | AUC | 48.8 | #90 of 108 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| 3D Human Pose Estimation | MPI-INF-3DHP | TIPSy-GAN (GT) | PCK | 78 | #90 of 108 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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