End-to-end Global to Local CNN Learning for Hand Pose Recovery in Depth data

Despite recent advances in 3-D pose estimation of human hands, thanks to the advent of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and depth cameras, this task is still far from being solved in uncontrolled setups. This is mainly due to the highly non-linear dynamics of fingers and self-occlusions, which m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Madadi, Meysam, Escalera Guerrero, Sergio, Baró i Solé, Xavier, Gonzàlez Sabaté, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/190703
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/190703
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Visió per ordinador
Interacció persona-ordinador
Xarxes neuronals convolucionals
Computer vision
Human-computer interaction
Convolutional neural networks
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Sumario:Despite recent advances in 3-D pose estimation of human hands, thanks to the advent of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and depth cameras, this task is still far from being solved in uncontrolled setups. This is mainly due to the highly non-linear dynamics of fingers and self-occlusions, which make hand model training a challenging task. In this study, a novel hierarchical tree-like structured CNN is exploited, in which branches are trained to become specialised in predefined subsets of hand joints called local poses. Further, local pose features, extracted from hierarchical CNN branches, are fused to learn higher order dependencies among joints in the final pose by end-to-end training. Lastly, the loss function used is also defined to incorporate appearance and physical constraints about doable hand motions and deformations. Finally, a non-rigid data augmentation approach is introduced to increase the amount of training depth data. Experimental results suggest that feeding a tree-shaped CNN, specialised in local poses, into a fusion network for modelling joints' correlations and dependencies, helps to increase the precision of final estimations, showing competitive results on NYU, MSRA, Hands17 and SyntheticHand datasets.