Robust 3D Hand Pose Estimation in Single Depth Images: From Single-View CNN to Multi-View CNNs

• Published in: 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) pp. 3593 - 3601
• Main Authors: Liuhao Ge, Hui Liang, Junsong Yuan, Thalmann, Daniel
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2016
• Subjects: Heating; Pose estimation; Robustness; Solid modeling; Three-dimensional displays; Two dimensional displays
• ISSN: 1063-6919
• DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2016.391

Articulated hand pose estimation plays an important role in human-computer interaction. Despite the recent progress, the accuracy of existing methods is still not satisfactory, partially due to the difficulty of embedded high-dimensional and non-linear regression problem. Different from the existing discriminative methods that regress for the hand pose with a single depth image, we propose to first project the query depth image onto three orthogonal planes and utilize these multi-view projections to regress for 2D heat-maps which estimate the joint positions on each plane. These multi-view heat-maps are then fused to produce final 3D hand pose estimation with learned pose priors. Experiments show that the proposed method largely outperforms state-of-the-art on a challenging dataset. Moreover, a cross-dataset experiment also demonstrates the good generalization ability of the proposed method.