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Trajectory Space Factorization for Deep Video-Based 3D Human Pose Estimation

22 Aug 2019arXiv:1908.08289archive 2025-07-28

Jiahao Lin, Gim Hee Lee

Existing deep learning approaches on 3d human pose estimation for videos are either based on Recurrent or Convolutional Neural Networks (RNNs or CNNs). However, RNN-based frameworks can only tackle sequences with limited frames because sequential models are sensitive to bad frames and tend to drift over long sequences. Although existing CNN-based temporal frameworks attempt to address the sensitivity and drift problems by concurrently processing all input frames in the sequence, the existing state-of-the-art CNN-based framework is limited to 3d pose estimation of a single frame from a sequential input. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based framework that utilizes matrix factorization for sequential 3d human poses estimation. Our approach processes all input frames concurrently to avoid the sensitivity and drift problems, and yet outputs the 3d pose estimates for every frame in the input sequence. More specifically, the 3d poses in all frames are represented as a motion matrix factorized into a trajectory bases matrix and a trajectory coefficient matrix. The trajectory bases matrix is precomputed from matrix factorization approaches such as Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) or Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), and the problem of sequential 3d pose estimation is reduced to training a deep network to regress the trajectory coefficient matrix. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework on long sequences by achieving state-of-the-art performances on multiple benchmark datasets. Our source code is available at: https://github.com/jiahaoLjh/trajectory-pose-3d.

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3D Human Pose Estimation3D Pose EstimationMonocular 3D Human Pose EstimationPose EstimationSensitivity

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M Trajectory Space Factorization (50 frames) Average MPJPE (mm) 46.6 #48 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M Trajectory Space Factorization (50 frames) Multi-View or Monocular Monocular #48 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M Trajectory Space Factorization (50 frames) Using 2D ground-truth joints No #48 of 88 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation MPI-INF-3DHP Trajectory Space Factorization (F=25) AUC 51.4 #41 of 108 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation MPI-INF-3DHP Trajectory Space Factorization (F=25) MPJPE 79.8 #41 of 108 Archive leaderboard report
3D Human Pose Estimation MPI-INF-3DHP Trajectory Space Factorization (F=25) PCK 83.6 #41 of 108 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M Trajectory Space Factorization (50 frames) Average MPJPE (mm) 46.6 #19 of 52 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M Trajectory Space Factorization (50 frames) Frames Needed 50 #19 of 52 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M Trajectory Space Factorization (50 frames) Need Ground Truth 2D Pose No #19 of 52 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Human3.6M Trajectory Space Factorization (50 frames) Use Video Sequence Yes #19 of 52 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation Leeds Sports Poses Trajectory Space Factorization (F=25) PCK 83.6 #15 of 18 Archive leaderboard report

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Discrete Cosine Transform

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