Overlapped Human Pose Estimation using Non-Maximum Suppression based on Shape Similarity
Xuefu Yu, Jinsheng Li, Fei Xiao, Wei Liu, Dapeng Luo, Longsheng Wei · 2021 China Automation Congress (CAC) · 2021
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DNNs) have made significant progress on human pose estimation task in recent years. However, the question of whether we are making the most use of the information we get from DNNs has not been well studied. Top-down approach which first detects person body box then utilizes single person pose estimation by heatmap is a widely used method in multi-person pose estimation. However, information that predicted by DNNs contains more information than we consider. In person box prediction process, when two persons are closed to each other, the Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) we often use filters out the body boxes with smaller scores. For tackling this problem, we apply NMS based on Shape Similarity to person body boxes detection for tackling the problem that deleting the overlapped body boxes with smaller scores, and then extract keypoint coordinates and tag information for filter noise candidates from heatmap by Trasformer to improve the prediction accuracy. At last we develop an algorithm for refining keypoint coordinate by tag information. In experiment, we got mean Average Precision(mAP) of 76.0% in COCO2017 validation dataset, better than 75.6% with TransPose.