DeepPose: Human pose estimation via deep neural networks

DeepPose (CVPR'2014)

@inproceedings{toshev2014deeppose,
  title={Deeppose: Human pose estimation via deep neural networks},
  author={Toshev, Alexander and Szegedy, Christian},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition},
  pages={1653--1660},
  year={2014}
}

Abstract

We propose a method for human pose estimation based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The pose estimation is formulated as a DNN-based regression problem towards body joints. We present a cascade of such DNN regressors which results in high precision pose estimates. The approach has the advantage of reasoning about pose in a holistic fashion and has a simple but yet powerful formulation which capitalizes on recent advances in Deep Learning. We present a detailed empirical analysis with state-of-art or better performance on four academic benchmarks of diverse real-world images.