DAUNet: Detail-Aware U-Shaped Network for 2D Human Pose Estimation

Human pose estimation is a critical research area in the field of computer vision,playing a significant role in applications such as human-computer interaction,behavior analysis,and action recognition.In this paper,we propose a U-shaped keypoint detection network(DAUNet)based on an improved ResNet subsampling structure and spatial grouping mechanism.This network addresses key challenges in traditional methods,such as information loss,large network redundancy,and insufficient sensitivity to low-resolution features.DAUNet is composed of three main components.First,we introduce an improved BottleNeck block that employs partial convolution and strip pooling to reduce computational load and mitigate feature loss.Second,after upsampling,the network eliminates redundant features,improving the overall efficiency.Finally,a lightweight spatial grouping attention mechanism is applied to enhance low-resolution semantic features within the feature map,allowing for better restoration of the original image size and higher accuracy.Experimental results demonstrate that DAUNet achieves superior accuracy compared to most existing keypoint detection models,with a mean PCKh@0.5 score of 91.6%on the MPII dataset and an AP of 76.1%on the COCO dataset.Moreover,real-world experiments further validate the robustness and generalizability of DAUNet for detecting human bodies in unknown environments,highlighting its potential for broader applications.

Lightweight Multi-Resolution Network for Human Pose Estimation

Human pose estimation aims to localize the body joints from image or video data.With the development of deeplearning,pose estimation has become a hot research topic in the field of computer vision.In recent years,humanpose estimation has achieved great success in multiple fields such as animation and sports.However,to obtainaccurate positioning results,existing methods may suffer from large model sizes,a high number of parameters,and increased complexity,leading to high computing costs.In this paper,we propose a new lightweight featureencoder to construct a high-resolution network that reduces the number of parameters and lowers the computingcost.We also introduced a semantic enhancement module that improves global feature extraction and networkperformance by combining channel and spatial dimensions.Furthermore,we propose a dense connected spatialpyramid pooling module to compensate for the decrease in image resolution and information loss in the network.Finally,ourmethod effectively reduces the number of parameters and complexitywhile ensuring high performance.Extensive experiments show that our method achieves a competitive performance while dramatically reducing thenumber of parameters,and operational complexity.Specifically,our method can obtain 89.9%AP score on MPIIVAL,while the number of parameters and the complexity of operations were reduced by 41%and 36%,respectively.

Multi-Level Feature Aggregation-Based Joint Keypoint Detection and Description

Image keypoint detection and description is a popular method to find pixel-level connections between images,which is a basic and critical step in many computer vision tasks.The existing methods are far from optimal in terms of keypoint positioning accuracy and generation of robust and discriminative descriptors.This paper proposes a new end-to-end selfsupervised training deep learning network.The network uses a backbone feature encoder to extract multi-level feature maps,then performs joint image keypoint detection and description in a forward pass.On the one hand,in order to enhance the localization accuracy of keypoints and restore the local shape structure,the detector detects keypoints on feature maps of the same resolution as the original image.On the other hand,in order to enhance the ability to percept local shape details,the network utilizes multi-level features to generate robust feature descriptors with rich local shape information.A detailed comparison with traditional feature-based methods Scale Invariant Feature Transform(SIFT),Speeded Up Robust Features(SURF)and deep learning methods on HPatches proves the effectiveness and robustness of the method proposed in this paper.

Keypoint Description Using Statistical Descriptor with Similarity-Invariant Regions

This article presents a method for the description of key points using simple statistics for regions controlled by neighboring key points to remedy the gap in existing descriptors.Usually,the existent descriptors such as speeded up robust features(SURF),Kaze,binary robust invariant scalable keypoints(BRISK),features from accelerated segment test(FAST),and oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF(ORB)can competently detect,describe,and match images in the presence of some artifacts such as blur,compression,and illumination.However,the performance and reliability of these descriptors decrease for some imaging variations such as point of view,zoom(scale),and rotation.The intro-duced description method improves image matching in the event of such distor-tions.It utilizes a contourlet-based detector to detect the strongest key points within a specified window size.The selected key points and their neighbors con-trol the size and orientation of the surrounding regions,which are mapped on rec-tangular shapes using polar transformation.The resulting rectangular matrices are subjected to two-directional statistical operations that involve calculating the mean and standard deviation.Consequently,the descriptor obtained is invariant(translation,rotation,and scale)because of the two methods;the extraction of the region and the polar transformation techniques used in this paper.The descrip-tion method introduced in this article is tested against well-established and well-known descriptors,such as SURF,Kaze,BRISK,FAST,and ORB,techniques using the standard OXFORD dataset.The presented methodology demonstrated its ability to improve the match between distorted images compared to other descriptors in the literature.