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OpenPifPaf: Composite Fields for Semantic Keypoint Detection and Spatio-Temporal Association

Kreiss, Sven  
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Bertoni, Lorenzo  
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Alahi, Alexandre  
2022
Ieee Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems

Many image-based perception tasks can be formulated as detecting, associating and tracking semantic keypoints, e.g., human body pose estimation and tracking. In this work, we present a general framework that jointly detects and forms spatio-temporal keypoint associations in a single stage, making this the first real-time pose detection and tracking algorithm. We present a generic neural network architecture that uses Composite Fields to detect and construct a spatio-temporal pose which is a single, connected graph whose nodes are the semantic keypoints (e.g., a person's body joints) in multiple frames. For the temporal associations, we introduce the Temporal Composite Association Field (TCAF) which requires an extended network architecture and training method beyond previous Composite Fields. Our experiments show competitive accuracy while being an order of magnitude faster on multiple publicly available datasets such as COCO, CrowdPose and the PoseTrack 2017 and 2018 datasets. We also show that our method generalizes to any class of semantic keypoints such as car and animal parts to provide a holistic perception framework that is well suited for urban mobility such as self-driving cars and delivery robots.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TITS.2021.3124981
Web of Science ID

WOS:000732152900001

Author(s)
Kreiss, Sven  
Bertoni, Lorenzo  
Alahi, Alexandre  
Date Issued

2022

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems
Volume

23

Issue

8

Start page

13498

End page

13511

Subjects

Engineering, Civil

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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Transportation Science & Technology

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Engineering

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Transportation

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pose estimation

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automobiles

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animals

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semantics

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autonomous automobiles

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task analysis

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three-dimensional displays

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composite fields

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pose tracking

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REVIEWED

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January 1, 2022
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