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Realtime Multi-person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields

Cao, Zhe, Simon, Tomas, Wei, Shih-En, Sheikh, Yaser·2017·2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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We present an approach to efficiently detect the 2D pose of multiple people in an image. The approach uses a nonparametric representation, which we refer to as Part Affinity Fields (PAFs), to learn to associate body parts with individuals in the image. The architecture encodes global context, allowing a greedy bottom-up parsing step that maintains high accuracy while achieving realtime performance, irrespective of the number of people in the image. The architecture is designed to jointly learn part locations and their association via two branches of the same sequential prediction process. Our method placed first in the inaugural COCO 2016 keypoints challenge, and significantly exceeds the previous state-of-the-art result on the MPII Multi-Person benchmark, both in performance and efficiency.

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Authors
Cao, Z., Simon, T., Wei, S.-E., & Sheikh, Y.
Affiliations
Carnegie Mellon University (US)
Venue
2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2017-07
Pages
1302-1310
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2559085405
Cited by
7,539
References
32
Citations by year
2026: 384 · 2025: 774 · 2024: 968 · 2023: 1007 · 2022: 913 · 2021: 1016 · 2020: 1072 · 2019: 930 · 2018: 424 · 2017: 50
FWCI
197.95
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
Funders
Office of Naval Research
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
Keywords
multi-person pose estimation, part affinity fields, real-time pose estimation, bottom-up parsing, keypoint detection

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