Due to self-occlusion and high degree of freedom,estimating 3D hand pose from a single RGB image is a great challenging problem.Graph convolutional networks(GCNs)use graphs to describe the physical connection relation...Due to self-occlusion and high degree of freedom,estimating 3D hand pose from a single RGB image is a great challenging problem.Graph convolutional networks(GCNs)use graphs to describe the physical connection relationships between hand joints and improve the accuracy of 3D hand pose regression.However,GCNs cannot effectively describe the relationships between non-adjacent hand joints.Recently,hypergraph convolutional networks(HGCNs)have received much attention as they can describe multi-dimensional relationships between nodes through hyperedges;therefore,this paper proposes a framework for 3D hand pose estimation based on HGCN,which can better extract correlated relationships between adjacent and non-adjacent hand joints.To overcome the shortcomings of predefined hypergraph structures,a kind of dynamic hypergraph convolutional network is proposed,in which hyperedges are constructed dynamically based on hand joint feature similarity.To better explore the local semantic relationships between nodes,a kind of semantic dynamic hypergraph convolution is proposed.The proposed method is evaluated on publicly available benchmark datasets.Qualitative and quantitative experimental results both show that the proposed HGCN and improved methods for 3D hand pose estimation are better than GCN,and achieve state-of-the-art performance compared with existing methods.展开更多
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021ZD0111902)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62172022 and U21B2038)。
文摘Due to self-occlusion and high degree of freedom,estimating 3D hand pose from a single RGB image is a great challenging problem.Graph convolutional networks(GCNs)use graphs to describe the physical connection relationships between hand joints and improve the accuracy of 3D hand pose regression.However,GCNs cannot effectively describe the relationships between non-adjacent hand joints.Recently,hypergraph convolutional networks(HGCNs)have received much attention as they can describe multi-dimensional relationships between nodes through hyperedges;therefore,this paper proposes a framework for 3D hand pose estimation based on HGCN,which can better extract correlated relationships between adjacent and non-adjacent hand joints.To overcome the shortcomings of predefined hypergraph structures,a kind of dynamic hypergraph convolutional network is proposed,in which hyperedges are constructed dynamically based on hand joint feature similarity.To better explore the local semantic relationships between nodes,a kind of semantic dynamic hypergraph convolution is proposed.The proposed method is evaluated on publicly available benchmark datasets.Qualitative and quantitative experimental results both show that the proposed HGCN and improved methods for 3D hand pose estimation are better than GCN,and achieve state-of-the-art performance compared with existing methods.
