Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

PARE: Part Attention Regressor for 3D Human Body Estimation

2021

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Despite significant progress, state of the art 3D human pose and shape estimation methods remain sensitive to partial occlusion and can produce dramatically wrong predictions although much of the body is observable. To address this, we introduce a soft attention mechanism, called the Part Attention REgressor (PARE), that learns to predict body-part-guided attention masks. We observe that state-of-the-art methods rely on global feature representations, making them sensitive to even small occlusions. In contrast, PARE's part-guided attention mechanism overcomes these issues by exploiting information about the visibility of individual body parts while leveraging information from neighboring body-parts to predict occluded parts. We show qualitatively that PARE learns sensible attention masks, and quantitative evaluation confirms that PARE achieves more accurate and robust reconstruction results than existing approaches on both occlusion-specific and standard benchmarks.

Author(s): Muhammed Kocabas and Chun-Hao P. Huang and Otmar Hilliges and Michael J. Black
Book Title: Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Pages: 11107--11117
Year: 2021
Month: October
Publisher: IEEE

Department(s): Perceiving Systems
Research Project(s): Regressing Humans
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference

DOI: 10.1109/ICCV48922.2021.01094
Event Name: International Conference on Computer Vision 2021
Event Place: virtual (originally Montreal, Canada)

Address: Piscataway, NJ
ISBN: 978-1-6654-2812-5
State: Published

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@inproceedings{Kocabas_PARE_2021,
  title = {{PARE}: Part Attention Regressor for {3D} Human Body Estimation},
  author = {Kocabas, Muhammed and Huang, Chun-Hao P. and Hilliges, Otmar and Black, Michael J.},
  booktitle = {Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  pages = {11107--11117},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address = {Piscataway, NJ},
  month = oct,
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.1109/ICCV48922.2021.01094},
  month_numeric = {10}
}