• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 58, Issue 20, 2015004 (2021)
Hong Liu, Jie Ma*, and Yujing Chai
Author Affiliations
  • School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
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    Hong Liu, Jie Ma, Yujing Chai. Human Pose Estimation Model Based on Improved Hourglass Network[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(20): 2015004 Copy Citation Text show less
    Structure of the HN model
    Fig. 1. Structure of the HN model
    Structure of the IHN module
    Fig. 2. Structure of the IHN module
    Structure of the prediction model
    Fig. 3. Structure of the prediction model
    Principle of expanding resolution. (a) Unpooling; (b) upsampling; (c) convolution; (d) deconvolution
    Fig. 4. Principle of expanding resolution. (a) Unpooling; (b) upsampling; (c) convolution; (d) deconvolution
    Experimental results of different methods on the COCO data set. (a) DeepPose[11]; (b) CPM[12]; (c) 8-SHN[13]; (d) Baseline[19]; (e) IHN-OHKM
    Fig. 5. Experimental results of different methods on the COCO data set. (a) DeepPose[11]; (b) CPM[12]; (c) 8-SHN[13]; (d) Baseline[19]; (e) IHN-OHKM
    AP curves for different methods in COCO data set
    Fig. 6. AP curves for different methods in COCO data set
    Detection results of our method on the COCO data set
    Fig. 7. Detection results of our method on the COCO data set
    MethodAPAP@50AP@75AP@mAP@lAR
    DeepPose[11]66.580.673.663.472.771.9
    CPM[12]66.982.376.365.375.974.4
    8-SHN[13]69.485.379.867.478.676.8
    Baseline[19]72.988.580.269.079.378.2
    IHN73.688.780.569.179.079.1
    IHN-OHKM74.588.880.269.478.579.6
    Table 1. Test results of different methods on the COCO data set unit: %
    MethodAverage processing time /msGFLOPs /(109 times)Number of parameters
    8-SHN[13]6620.34.6×107
    IHN206.41.3×107
    IHN-OHKM236.91.5×107
    Table 2. Calculation efficiency of different methods
    MethodHeadSho.Elb.Wri.Hip.KneeAnk.Mean
    DeepPose[11]95.494.391.784.089.787.081.389.1
    CPM[12]96.295.092.084.990.587.782.089.8
    8-SHN[13]97.695.792.385.391.388.682.590.5
    Baseline[19]97.096.593.488.592.090.783.291.8
    IHN97.397.894.289.092.690.585.992.5
    IHN-OHKM97.098.995.388.694.090.286.492.9
    Table 3. Test results of different methods on MPII data set unit: %
    Residual module layerDeconvolution layerAP /%Average processing time /ms
    3271.216.6
    4374.618.0
    5475.021.4
    Table 4. Ablation experiments on the COCO validation data set
    M6810121417
    AP /%70.475.574.173.072.772.5
    Table 5. Impact of different M on AP
    Hong Liu, Jie Ma, Yujing Chai. Human Pose Estimation Model Based on Improved Hourglass Network[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(20): 2015004
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