Cited by 3,653Human Pose and Action RecognitionFace recognition and analysisHand Gesture Recognition Systems

Human3.6M: Large Scale Datasets and Predictive Methods for 3D Human Sensing in Natural Environments

Ionescu, Catalin, Papava, Dragos, Olaru, Vlad, Sminchisescu, Cristian·2014·IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Abstract

We introduce a new dataset, Human3.6M, of 3.6 Million accurate 3D Human poses, acquired by recording the performance of 5 female and 6 male subjects, under 4 different viewpoints, for training realistic human sensing systems and for evaluating the next generation of human pose estimation models and algorithms. Besides increasing the size of the datasets in the current state-of-the-art by several orders of magnitude, we also aim to complement such datasets with a diverse set of motions and poses encountered as part of typical human activities (taking photos, talking on the phone, posing, greeting, eating, etc.), with additional synchronized image, human motion capture, and time of flight (depth) data, and with accurate 3D body scans of all the subject actors involved. We also provide controlled mixed reality evaluation scenarios where 3D human models are animated using motion capture and inserted using correct 3D geometry, in complex real environments, viewed with moving cameras, and under occlusion. Finally, we provide a set of large-scale statistical models and detailed evaluation baselines for the dataset illustrating its diversity and the scope for improvement by future work in the research community. Our experiments show that our best large-scale model can leverage our full training set to obtain a 20% improvement in performance compared to a training set of the scale of the largest existing public dataset for this problem. Yet the potential for improvement by leveraging higher capacity, more complex models with our large dataset, is substantially vaster and should stimulate future research. The dataset together with code for the associated large-scale learning models, features, visualization tools, as well as the evaluation server, is available online at http://vision.imar.ro/human3.6m.

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Authors
Ionescu, C., Papava, D., Olaru, V., & Sminchisescu, C.
Affiliations
  • IMAR - Institutul de Matematică „Simion Stoilow” al Academiei Române (RO)
  • Lund University (SE)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Published
2014-07
Volume
36
Issue
7
Pages
1325-1339
ISSN
  • 0162-8828 (ISSN-L)
  • 2160-9292
OpenAlex
W2101032778
Cited by
3,653
References
71
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FWCI
46.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (publishedVersion)
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  • Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Universitatea Politehnica din București
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
Keywords
3D human pose estimation, natural environment, 3D body scans, occlusion, human activities
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Biometry, Humans, Image Enhancement, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Photography, Posture, Sensitivity and Specificity, Subtraction Technique, Reproducibility of Results, Databases, Factual, Information Storage and Retrieval, Ecosystem, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Whole Body Imaging

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