skip to main content


Title: Pose Flow Learning From Person Images for Pose Guided Synthesis
Award ID(s):
1704337 1813709 1722847
NSF-PAR ID:
10303722
Author(s) / Creator(s):
; ; ;
Date Published:
Journal Name:
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Volume:
30
ISSN:
1057-7149
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
More Like this
  1. null (Ed.)
    Monocular depth predictors are typically trained on large-scale training sets which are naturally biased w.r.t the distribution of camera poses. As a result, trained predic- tors fail to make reliable depth predictions for testing exam- ples captured under uncommon camera poses. To address this issue, we propose two novel techniques that exploit the camera pose during training and prediction. First, we in- troduce a simple perspective-aware data augmentation that synthesizes new training examples with more diverse views by perturbing the existing ones in a geometrically consis- tent manner. Second, we propose a conditional model that exploits the per-image camera pose as prior knowledge by encoding it as a part of the input. We show that jointly ap- plying the two methods improves depth prediction on im- ages captured under uncommon and even never-before-seen camera poses. We show that our methods improve perfor- mance when applied to a range of different predictor ar- chitectures. Lastly, we show that explicitly encoding the camera pose distribution improves the generalization per- formance of a synthetically trained depth predictor when evaluated on real images. 
    more » « less