TY - GEN

T1 - Back to Optimization

T2 - WACV 2024 - IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

AU - Jiang, Zhongyu

AU - Zhou, Zhuoran

AU - Li, Lei

AU - Chai, Wenhao

AU - Yang, Cheng-Yen

AU - Hwang, Jenq-Neng

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - Learning-based methods have dominated the 3D human pose estimation (HPE) tasks with significantly better performance in most benchmarks than traditional optimization-based methods. Nonetheless, 3D HPE in the wild is still the biggest challenge for learning-based models, whether with 2D-3D lifting, image-to-3D, or diffusion-based methods, since the trained networks implicitly learn camera intrinsic parameters and domain-based 3D human pose distributions and estimate poses by statistical average. On the other hand, the optimization-based methods estimate results case-by-case, which can predict more diverse and sophisticated human poses in the wild. By combining the advantages of optimization-based and learning-based methods, we propose the Zero-shot Diffusion-based Optimization (ZeDO) pipeline for 3D HPE to solve the problem of cross-domain and in-the-wild 3D HPE. Our multi-hypothesis ZeDO achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on Human3.6M, with minMPJPE 51.4mm, without training with any 2D-3D or image-3D pairs. Moreover, our single-hypothesis ZeDO achieves SOTA performance on 3DPW dataset with PA-MPJPE 40.3mm on cross-dataset evaluation, which even outperforms learning-based methods trained on 3DPW. Our code is available here: https://github.com/ipl-uw/ZeDO-Releas

AB - Learning-based methods have dominated the 3D human pose estimation (HPE) tasks with significantly better performance in most benchmarks than traditional optimization-based methods. Nonetheless, 3D HPE in the wild is still the biggest challenge for learning-based models, whether with 2D-3D lifting, image-to-3D, or diffusion-based methods, since the trained networks implicitly learn camera intrinsic parameters and domain-based 3D human pose distributions and estimate poses by statistical average. On the other hand, the optimization-based methods estimate results case-by-case, which can predict more diverse and sophisticated human poses in the wild. By combining the advantages of optimization-based and learning-based methods, we propose the Zero-shot Diffusion-based Optimization (ZeDO) pipeline for 3D HPE to solve the problem of cross-domain and in-the-wild 3D HPE. Our multi-hypothesis ZeDO achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on Human3.6M, with minMPJPE 51.4mm, without training with any 2D-3D or image-3D pairs. Moreover, our single-hypothesis ZeDO achieves SOTA performance on 3DPW dataset with PA-MPJPE 40.3mm on cross-dataset evaluation, which even outperforms learning-based methods trained on 3DPW. Our code is available here: https://github.com/ipl-uw/ZeDO-Releas

U2 - 10.1109/WACV57701.2024.00603

DO - 10.1109/WACV57701.2024.00603

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 6130

EP - 6140

BT - 2024 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

PB - IEEE

Y2 - 4 January 2024 through 8 January 2024

ER -