Augmented Skeleton Space Transfer for Depth-based Hand Pose Estimation

Seungryul Baek, Kwang In Kim, Tae Kyun Kim

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Abstract

Crucial to the success of training a depth-based 3D hand pose estimator (HPE) is the availability of comprehensive datasets covering diverse camera perspectives, shapes, and pose variations. However, collecting such annotated datasets is challenging. We propose to complete existing databases by generating new database entries. The key idea is to synthesize data in the skeleton space (instead of doing so in the depth-map space) which enables an easy and intuitive way of manipulating data entries. Since the skeleton entries generated in this way do not have the corresponding depth map entries, we exploit them by training a separate hand pose generator (HPG) which synthesizes the depth map from the skeleton entries. By training the HPG and HPE in a single unified optimization framework enforcing that 1) the HPE agrees with the paired depth and skeleton entries; and 2) the HPG-HPE combination satisfies the cyclic consistency (both the input and the output of HPG-HPE are skeletons) observed via the newly generated unpaired skeletons, our algorithm constructs a HPE which is robust to variations that go beyond the coverage of the existing database.

Our training algorithm adopts the generative adversarial networks (GAN) training process. As a by-product, we obtain a hand pose discriminator (HPD) that is capable of picking out realistic hand poses. Our algorithm exploits this capability to refine the initial skeleton estimates in testing, further improving the accuracy. We test our algorithm on four challenging benchmark datasets (ICVL, MSRA, NYU and Big Hand 2.2M datasets) and demonstrate that our approach outperforms or is on par with state-of-the-art methods quantitatively and qualitatively.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
PublisherIEEE
Pages8330-8339
Number of pages10
Volume2018
ISBN (Electronic) 9781538664209
ISBN (Print)9781538664216
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Dec 2018
EventIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018 -
Duration: 18 Jun 201822 Jun 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings (IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (Print)2575-7075

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018
Period18/06/1822/06/18

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