Heatmap Distribution Matching for Human Pose Estimation. (arXiv:2210.00740v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)

For tackling the task of 2D human pose estimation, the great majority of the
recent methods regard this task as a heatmap estimation problem, and optimize
the heatmap prediction using the Gaussian-smoothed heatmap as the optimization
objective and using the pixel-wise loss (e.g. MSE) as the loss function. In
this paper, we show that optimizing the heatmap prediction in such a way, the
model performance of body joint localization, which is the intrinsic objective
of this task, may not be …

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