Fast Human Pose Estimation CVPR2019

This is an official pytorch implementation of Fast Human Pose Estimation.

In this work, we focus on the two problems

  1. How to reduce the model size and computation using a model-agnostic method.
  2. How to improve the performance of the reduced model.

In our paper

  1. We reduce the model size and computation through reducing the width and depth of a network.
  2. Propose the fast pose distillation (FPD) to improve the performance of the reduced model.

The results on the MPII dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. We re-implemented the FPD using the HRNet codebase and provided extra evaluation on the COCO dataset. Our method (FPD) can work without ground-truth labels, it can utilize unlabeled images.
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For the MPII dataset

  1. We first trained a teacher model (hourglass model, stacks=8, num_features=256, 90.520@MPII [email protected]) and a student model (hourglass model, stacks=4, num_features=128, 89.040@MPII [email protected]).
  2. We then used the teacher model's prediction and the ground-truth label to co-supervisie the student model (hourglass model, stacks=4, num_features=128, 87.934@MPII [email protected]).
  3. Our experiment shows 1.106% gain from FPD.

For the COCO dataset

  1. We first trained a teacher model (HRNet-W48, input size=256x192, 75.0@COCO-Valid-Set AP) and a student model (HRNet-W32, input size=256x192, 74.4@COCO-Valid-Set AP).
  2. We then used the teacher model's prediction and the ground-truth label to co-supervisie the student model (HRNet-W32, input size=256x192, 75.1@COCO-Valid-Set AP).
  3. Our experiment shows 0.7% gain from FPD.

If you want to further improve the performance of the student model.You can remove the supervision of ground-truth label in the FPD when there are unlabeled images.

Main Results

Results on MPII val

Arch Head Shoulder Elbow Wrist Hip Knee Ankle Mean [email protected]
hourglass_teacher 97.169 96.382 90.830 86.466 90.012 86.802 82.664 90.520 38.275
hourglass_student 96.828 95.194 87.728 82.919 87.900 82.551 78.270 87.934 34.634
hourglass_student_FPD* 96.385 94.905 87.847 81.875 87.225 81.906 78.955 87.598 34.359
hourglass_student_FPD 96.930 95.550 89.040 84.444 88.939 84.021 80.703 89.040 36.144

Note:

  • Flip test is used.
  • Input size is 256x256.
  • hourglass_student_FPD* means not using pretrained students.
  • Not using multi-scale test.
  • Batch size is 4.
  • The PCKh metric implemented in the HRNet codebase for MPII dataset is slightly different than that in our paper.
  • The performance of hourglass implemented using pytorch is lower than that implemented using torch(paper).

Results on COCO val2017 with detector having human AP of 56.4 on COCO val2017 dataset

Arch Input size #Params GFLOPs AP Ap .5 AP .75 AP (M) AP (L) AR AR .5 AR .75 AR (M) AR (L)
pose_hrnet_w48_teacher 256x192 63.6M 14.6 0.750 0.906 0.824 0.713 0.819 0.803 0.941 0.867 0.760 0.866
pose_hrnet_w32_student 256x192 28.5M 7.1 0.744 0.905 0.819 0.708 0.810 0.798 0.942 0.865 0.757 0.858
pose_hrnet_w32_student_FPD 256x192 28.5M 7.1 0.751 0.906 0.823 0.714 0.820 0.804 0.943 0.869 0.762 0.865

Note:

Development environment

The code is developed using python 3.5 on Ubuntu 16.04. NVIDIA GPUs are needed. The code is developed and tested using 4 TITAN XP GPU cards. Other platforms or GPU cards are not fully tested.

Quick start

1. Preparation

1.1 Prepare the dataset

For the MPII dataset, your directory tree should look like this:

$HOME/datasets/MPII
├── images
└── mpii_human_pose_v1_u12_1.mat

For the COCO dataset, your directory tree should look like this:

$HOME/datasets/MSCOCO
├── annotations
├── images
│   ├── test2017
│   ├── train2017
│   └── val2017
└── person_detection_results

1.2 Prepare the pretrained models

Your directory tree should look like this:

$HOME/datasets/models
├── pytorch
│   ├── imagenet
│   │   ├── hrnet_w32-36af842e.pth
│   │   ├── hrnet_w48-8ef0771d.pth
│   │   └── resnet50-19c8e357.pth
│   ├── pose_coco
│   │   ├── pose_hrnet_w32_256x192.pth
│   │   └── pose_hrnet_w48_256x192.pth
│   └── pose_mpii
│       ├── bs4_hourglass_128_4_1_16_0.00025_0_140_87.934_model_best.pth
│       ├── bs4_hourglass_256_8_1_16_0.00025_0_140_90.520_model_best.pth
│       ├── pose_hrnet_w32_256x256.pth
│       └── pose_hrnet_w48_256x256.pth
└── student_FPD
    ├── hourglass_student_FPD*.pth
    ├── hourglass_student_FPD.pth
    └── pose_hrnet_w32_student_FPD.pth

1.3 Prepare the environment

Setting the parameters in the file prepare_env.sh as follows:

# DATASET_ROOT=$HOME/datasets
# COCO_ROOT=${DATASET_ROOT}/MSCOCO
# MPII_ROOT=${DATASET_ROOT}/MPII
# MODELS_ROOT=${DATASET_ROOT}/models

Then execute:

bash prepare_env.sh

If you like, you can prepare the environment step by step

2. How to train the model

2.1 Download the pretrained models and place them like the section 1.2

For MPII dataset: [GoogleDrive] [BaiduDrive]

  1. hourglass student model

  2. hourglass teacher model

For COCO dataset: [GoogleDrive] [BaiduDrive]

  1. HRNet-W32 student model

  2. HRNet-W48 teacher model

2.2 Start training

# COCO dataset training
cd scripts/fpd_coco
bash run_train_hrnet.sh

# MPII dataset training
cd scripts/fpd_mpii
bash run_train_hrnet.sh # using hrnet model
bash run_train_hg.sh # using hourglass model

# General training methods, we also provide script shell
cd scripts/mpii
bash run_train_hrnet.sh # using hrnet model
bash run_train_hg.sh # using hourglass model
bash run_train_resnet.sh # using resnet model
cd scripts/coco
bash run_train_hrnet.sh # using hrnet model
bash run_train_hg.sh # using hourglass model
bash run_train_resnet.sh # using resnet model

3. How to test the model

3.1 Download the trained student models and place them like section 1.2

[GoogleDrive] [BaiduDrive]

For MPII dataset:

hourglass student FPD model

For COCO dataset:

HRNet-W32 student FPD model

3.2 FPD training results and logs

[GoogleDrive] [BaiduDrive]

Note:

  • coco_hrnet_w48_fpd_w32_256x256: pose_hrnet_w32_student_FPD model training resutls.

  • mpii_hourglass_8_256_fpd_hg_4_128_not_pretrained: hourglass_student_FPD* model training resutls.

  • mpii_hourglass_8_256_fpd_hg_4_128_pretrained: hourglass_student_FPD model training resutls.

Citation

If you use our code or models in your research, please cite with:

@InProceedings{Zhang_2019_CVPR,
author = {Zhang, Feng and Zhu, Xiatian and Ye, Mao},
title = {Fast Human Pose Estimation},
booktitle = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2019}
}

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