MHFormer: Multi-Hypothesis Transformer for 3D Human Pose Estimation [CVPR 2022]

MHFormer: Multi-Hypothesis Transformer for 3D Human Pose Estimation,
Wenhao Li, Hong Liu, Hao Tang, Pichao Wang, Luc Van Gool,
In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022

News

• Our method has been improved the efficiency without sacrificing performance in 🔥HoT🔥, CVPR 2024!

Installation

• Create a conda environment: conda create -n mhformer python=3.9
• Install PyTorch 1.7.1 and Torchvision 0.8.2 following the official instructions
• pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Dataset setup

Please download the dataset from Human3.6M website and refer to VideoPose3D to set up the Human3.6M dataset ('./dataset' directory). Or you can download the processed data from here.

${POSE_ROOT}/
|-- dataset
|   |-- data_3d_h36m.npz
|   |-- data_2d_h36m_gt.npz
|   |-- data_2d_h36m_cpn_ft_h36m_dbb.npz

Download pretrained model

The pretrained model can be found in here, please download it and put it in the './checkpoint/pretrained' directory.

Test the model

To test on a 351-frames pretrained model on Human3.6M:

python main.py --test --previous_dir 'checkpoint/pretrained/351' --frames 351

Here, we compare our MHFormer with recent state-of-the-art methods on Human3.6M dataset. Evaluation metric is Mean Per Joint Position Error (MPJPE) in mm​.

Models	MPJPE
VideoPose3D	46.8
PoseFormer	44.3
MHFormer	43.0

Train the model

To train a 351-frames model on Human3.6M:

python main.py --frames 351 --batch_size 128

To train a 81-frames model on Human3.6M:

python main.py --frames 81 --batch_size 256

Demo

First, you need to download YOLOv3 and HRNet pretrained models here and put it in the './demo/lib/checkpoint' directory. Then, you need to put your in-the-wild videos in the './demo/video' directory.

Run the command below:

python demo/vis.py --video sample_video.mp4

Sample demo output:

Citation

If you find our work useful in your research, please consider citing:

@inproceedings{li2022mhformer,
  title={MHFormer: Multi-Hypothesis Transformer for 3D Human Pose Estimation},
  author={Li, Wenhao and Liu, Hong and Tang, Hao and Wang, Pichao and Van Gool, Luc},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  pages={13147-13156},
  year={2022}
}

@article{li2023multi,
  title={Multi-Hypothesis Representation Learning for Transformer-Based 3D Human Pose Estimation},
  author={Li, Wenhao and Liu, Hong and Tang, Hao and Wang, Pichao},
  journal={Pattern Recognition},
  volume={141},
  pages={109631},
  year={2023},
}

Acknowledgement

Our code is extended from the following repositories. We thank the authors for releasing the codes.

• ST-GCN
• VideoPose3D
• 3d-pose-baseline
• 3d_pose_baseline_pytorch
• StridedTransformer-Pose3D

Licence

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.