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Recovering multi-person 3D poses and shapes with absolute scales from a single RGB image is a challenging task due to the inherent depth and scale ambiguity from a single view. Current works on 3D pose and shape estimation tend to mainly focus on the estimation of the 3D joint locations relative to the root joint , usually defined as the one closest to the shape centroid, in case of humans defined as the pelvis joint. In this paper, we build upon an existing multi-person 3D mesh predictor network, ROMP, to create Absolute-ROMP. By adding absolute root joint localization in the camera coordinate frame, we are able to estimate multi-person 3D poses and shapes with absolute scales from a single RGB image. Such a single-shot approach allows the system to better learn and reason about the inter-person depth relationship, thus improving multi-person 3D estimation. In addition to this end to end network, we also train a CNN and transformer hybrid network, called TransFocal, to predict the f ocal length of the image’s camera. Absolute-ROMP estimates the 3D mesh coordinates of all persons in the image and their root joint locations normalized by the focal point. We then use TransFocal to obtain focal length and get absolute depth information of all joints in the camera coordinate frame. We evaluate Absolute-ROMP on the root joint localization and root-relative 3D pose estimation tasks on publicly available multi-person 3D pose datasets. We evaluate TransFocal on dataset created from the Pano360 dataset and both are applicable to in-the-wild images and videos, due to real time performance.
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DewarpNet: Single-Image Document Unwarping With Stacked 3D and 2D Regression Networks
Capturing document images with hand-held devices in unstructured environments is a common practice nowadays. However, “casual” photos of documents are usually unsuitable for automatic information extraction, mainly due to physical distortion of the document paper, as well as various camera positions and illumination conditions. In this work, we propose DewarpNet, a deep-learning approach for document image unwarping from a single image. Our insight is that the 3D geometry of the document not only determines the warping of its texture but also causes the illumination effects. Therefore, our novelty resides on the explicit modeling of 3D shape for document paper in an end-to-end pipeline. Also, we contribute the largest and most comprehensive dataset for document image unwarping to date – Doc3D. This dataset features multiple ground-truth annotations, including 3D shape, surface normals, UV map, albedo image, etc. Training with Doc3D, we demonstrate state-of-the-art performance for DewarpNet with extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluations. Our network also significantly improves OCR performance on captured document images, decreasing character error rate by 42% on average. Both the code and the dataset are released.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1650499
- PAR ID:
- 10137869
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 131 to 140
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2019.00022
