Structure-aware transformer for enhanced low-resolution human pose estimation
摘要
Accurate human pose estimation from low-resolution images remains a challenging problem due to quantization errors and occlusion issues. In this paper, we introduce HigherPose, a bottom-up approach leveraging a structure-aware transformer to enhance joint localization accuracy at lower resolutions. By integrating the transformer with a multi-scale aggregation module, our approach effectively capturing long-range dependencies and high-resolution representation information. Furthermore, the associative embedding (AE) module is employed for joint grouping, and the deconvolution (Deconv) module is used to extract high-resolution feature maps. Extensive experiments on the COCO2017 and CrowdPose datasets demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art bottom-up methods, especially when dealing with low-resolution inputs. Evaluated on the COCO2017 and CrowdPose test-dev dataset, our method achieves 43.4 AP with