Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has emerged as a major research focus in recent years,primarily due to the elimination of ground-truth depth dependence.However,the prevailing architectures in this domain su...Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has emerged as a major research focus in recent years,primarily due to the elimination of ground-truth depth dependence.However,the prevailing architectures in this domain suffer from inherent limitations:existing pose network branches infer camera ego-motion exclusively under static-scene and Lambertian-surface assumptions.These assumptions are often violated in real-world scenarios due to dynamic objects,non-Lambertian reflectance,and unstructured background elements,leading to pervasive artifacts such as depth discontinuities(“holes”),structural collapse,and ambiguous reconstruction.To address these challenges,we propose a novel framework that integrates scene dynamic pose estimation into the conventional self-supervised depth network,enhancing its ability to model complex scene dynamics.Our contributions are threefold:(1)a pixel-wise dynamic pose estimation module that jointly resolves the pose transformations of moving objects and localized scene perturbations;(2)a physically-informed loss function that couples dynamic pose and depth predictions,designed to mitigate depth errors arising from high-speed distant objects and geometrically inconsistent motion profiles;(3)an efficient SE(3)transformation parameterization that streamlines network complexity and temporal pre-processing.Extensive experiments on the KITTI and NYU-V2 benchmarks show that our framework achieves state-of-the-art performance in both quantitative metrics and qualitative visual fidelity,significantly improving the robustness and generalization of monocular depth estimation under dynamic conditions.展开更多
Previous multi-view 3D human pose estimation methods neither correlate different human joints in each view nor model learnable correlations between the same joints in different views explicitly,meaning that skeleton s...Previous multi-view 3D human pose estimation methods neither correlate different human joints in each view nor model learnable correlations between the same joints in different views explicitly,meaning that skeleton structure information is not utilized and multi-view pose information is not completely fused.Moreover,existing graph convolutional operations do not consider the specificity of different joints and different views of pose information when processing skeleton graphs,making the correlation weights between nodes in the graph and their neighborhood nodes shared.Existing Graph Convolutional Networks(GCNs)cannot extract global and deeplevel skeleton structure information and view correlations efficiently.To solve these problems,pre-estimated multiview 2D poses are designed as a multi-view skeleton graph to fuse skeleton priors and view correlations explicitly to process occlusion problem,with the skeleton-edge and symmetry-edge representing the structure correlations between adjacent joints in each viewof skeleton graph and the view-edge representing the view correlations between the same joints in different views.To make graph convolution operation mine elaborate and sufficient skeleton structure information and view correlations,different correlation weights are assigned to different categories of neighborhood nodes and further assigned to each node in the graph.Based on the graph convolution operation proposed above,a Residual Graph Convolution(RGC)module is designed as the basic module to be combined with the simplified Hourglass architecture to construct the Hourglass-GCN as our 3D pose estimation network.Hourglass-GCNwith a symmetrical and concise architecture processes three scales ofmulti-viewskeleton graphs to extract local-to-global scale and shallow-to-deep level skeleton features efficiently.Experimental results on common large 3D pose dataset Human3.6M and MPI-INF-3DHP show that Hourglass-GCN outperforms some excellent methods in 3D pose estimation accuracy.展开更多
Vision-based relative pose estimation plays a pivotal role in various space missions.Deep learning enhances monocular spacecraft pose estimation,but high computational demands necessitate model simplification for onbo...Vision-based relative pose estimation plays a pivotal role in various space missions.Deep learning enhances monocular spacecraft pose estimation,but high computational demands necessitate model simplification for onboard systems.In this paper,we aim to achieve an optimal balance between accuracy and computational efficiency.We present a Perspective-n-Point(PnP)based method for spacecraft pose estimation,leveraging lightweight neural networks to localize semantic keypoints and reduce computational load.Since the accuracy of keypoint localization is closely related to the heatmap resolution,we devise an efficient upsampling module to increase the resolution of heatmaps with minimal overhead.Furthermore,the heatmaps predicted by the lightweight models tend to show high-level noise.To tackle this issue,we propose a weighting strategy by analyzing the statistical characteristics of predicted semantic keypoints and substantially improve the pose estimation accuracy.The experiments carried out on the SPEED dataset underscore the prospect of our method in engineering applications.We dramatically reduce the model parameters to 0.7 M,merely 2.5%of that required by the top-performing method,and achieve lower pose estimation error and better real-time performance.展开更多
This paper presents a manifold-optimized Error-State Kalman Filter(ESKF)framework for unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)pose estimation,integrating Inertial Measurement Unit(IMU)data with GPS or LiDAR to enhance estimation ...This paper presents a manifold-optimized Error-State Kalman Filter(ESKF)framework for unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)pose estimation,integrating Inertial Measurement Unit(IMU)data with GPS or LiDAR to enhance estimation accuracy and robustness.We employ a manifold-based optimization approach,leveraging exponential and logarithmic mappings to transform rotation vectors into rotation matrices.The proposed ESKF framework ensures state variables remain near the origin,effectively mitigating singularity issues and enhancing numerical stability.Additionally,due to the small magnitude of state variables,second-order terms can be neglected,simplifying Jacobian matrix computation and improving computational efficiency.Furthermore,we introduce a novel Kalman filter gain computation strategy that dynamically adapts to low-dimensional and high-dimensional observation equations,enabling efficient processing across different sensor modalities.Specifically,for resource-constrained UAV platforms,this method significantly reduces computational cost,making it highly suitable for real-time UAV applications.展开更多
Graph convolutional network(GCN)as an essential tool in human action recognition tasks have achieved excellent performance in previous studies.However,most current skeleton-based action recognition using GCN methods u...Graph convolutional network(GCN)as an essential tool in human action recognition tasks have achieved excellent performance in previous studies.However,most current skeleton-based action recognition using GCN methods use a shared topology,which cannot flexibly adapt to the diverse correlations between joints under different motion features.The video-shooting angle or the occlusion of the body parts may bring about errors when extracting the human pose coordinates with estimation algorithms.In this work,we propose a novel graph convolutional learning framework,called PCCTR-GCN,which integrates pose correction and channel topology refinement for skeleton-based human action recognition.Firstly,a pose correction module(PCM)is introduced,which corrects the pose coordinates of the input network to reduce the error in pose feature extraction.Secondly,channel topology refinement graph convolution(CTR-GC)is employed,which can dynamically learn the topology features and aggregate joint features in different channel dimensions so as to enhance the performance of graph convolution networks in feature extraction.Finally,considering that the joint stream and bone stream of skeleton data and their dynamic information are also important for distinguishing different actions,we employ a multi-stream data fusion approach to improve the network’s recognition performance.We evaluate the model using top-1 and top-5 classification accuracy.On the benchmark datasets iMiGUE and Kinetics,the top-1 classification accuracy reaches 55.08%and 36.5%,respectively,while the top-5 classification accuracy reaches 89.98%and 59.2%,respectively.On the NTU dataset,for the two benchmark RGB+Dsettings(X-Sub and X-View),the classification accuracy achieves 89.7%and 95.4%,respectively.展开更多
[Objective]Fish pose estimation(FPE)provides fish physiological information,facilitating health monitoring in aquaculture.It aids decision-making in areas such as fish behavior recognition.When fish are injured or def...[Objective]Fish pose estimation(FPE)provides fish physiological information,facilitating health monitoring in aquaculture.It aids decision-making in areas such as fish behavior recognition.When fish are injured or deficient,they often display abnormal behaviors and noticeable changes in the positioning of their body parts.Moreover,the unpredictable posture and orientation of fish during swimming,combined with the rapid swimming speed of fish,restrict the current scope of research in FPE.In this research,a FPE model named HPFPE is presented to capture the swimming posture of fish and accurately detect their key points.[Methods]On the one hand,this model incorporated the CBAM module into the HRNet framework.The attention module enhanced accuracy without adding computational complexity,while effectively capturing a broader range of contextual information.On the other hand,the model incorporated dilated convolution to increase the receptive field,allowing it to capture more spatial context.[Results and Discussions]Experiments showed that compared with the baseline method,the average precision(AP)of HPFPE based on different backbones and input sizes on the oplegnathus punctatus datasets had increased by 0.62,1.35,1.76,and 1.28 percent point,respectively,while the average recall(AR)had also increased by 0.85,1.50,1.40,and 1.00,respectively.Additionally,HPFPE outperformed other mainstream methods,including DeepPose,CPM,SCNet,and Lite-HRNet.Furthermore,when compared to other methods using the ornamental fish data,HPFPE achieved the highest AP and AR values of 52.96%,and 59.50%,respectively.[Conclusions]The proposed HPFPE can accurately estimate fish posture and assess their swimming patterns,serving as a valuable reference for applications such as fish behavior recognition.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 62071345。
文摘Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has emerged as a major research focus in recent years,primarily due to the elimination of ground-truth depth dependence.However,the prevailing architectures in this domain suffer from inherent limitations:existing pose network branches infer camera ego-motion exclusively under static-scene and Lambertian-surface assumptions.These assumptions are often violated in real-world scenarios due to dynamic objects,non-Lambertian reflectance,and unstructured background elements,leading to pervasive artifacts such as depth discontinuities(“holes”),structural collapse,and ambiguous reconstruction.To address these challenges,we propose a novel framework that integrates scene dynamic pose estimation into the conventional self-supervised depth network,enhancing its ability to model complex scene dynamics.Our contributions are threefold:(1)a pixel-wise dynamic pose estimation module that jointly resolves the pose transformations of moving objects and localized scene perturbations;(2)a physically-informed loss function that couples dynamic pose and depth predictions,designed to mitigate depth errors arising from high-speed distant objects and geometrically inconsistent motion profiles;(3)an efficient SE(3)transformation parameterization that streamlines network complexity and temporal pre-processing.Extensive experiments on the KITTI and NYU-V2 benchmarks show that our framework achieves state-of-the-art performance in both quantitative metrics and qualitative visual fidelity,significantly improving the robustness and generalization of monocular depth estimation under dynamic conditions.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61973065,U20A20197,61973063.
文摘Previous multi-view 3D human pose estimation methods neither correlate different human joints in each view nor model learnable correlations between the same joints in different views explicitly,meaning that skeleton structure information is not utilized and multi-view pose information is not completely fused.Moreover,existing graph convolutional operations do not consider the specificity of different joints and different views of pose information when processing skeleton graphs,making the correlation weights between nodes in the graph and their neighborhood nodes shared.Existing Graph Convolutional Networks(GCNs)cannot extract global and deeplevel skeleton structure information and view correlations efficiently.To solve these problems,pre-estimated multiview 2D poses are designed as a multi-view skeleton graph to fuse skeleton priors and view correlations explicitly to process occlusion problem,with the skeleton-edge and symmetry-edge representing the structure correlations between adjacent joints in each viewof skeleton graph and the view-edge representing the view correlations between the same joints in different views.To make graph convolution operation mine elaborate and sufficient skeleton structure information and view correlations,different correlation weights are assigned to different categories of neighborhood nodes and further assigned to each node in the graph.Based on the graph convolution operation proposed above,a Residual Graph Convolution(RGC)module is designed as the basic module to be combined with the simplified Hourglass architecture to construct the Hourglass-GCN as our 3D pose estimation network.Hourglass-GCNwith a symmetrical and concise architecture processes three scales ofmulti-viewskeleton graphs to extract local-to-global scale and shallow-to-deep level skeleton features efficiently.Experimental results on common large 3D pose dataset Human3.6M and MPI-INF-3DHP show that Hourglass-GCN outperforms some excellent methods in 3D pose estimation accuracy.
基金co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12302252 and 12472189)the Research Program of National University of Defense Technology,China(No.ZK24-31).
文摘Vision-based relative pose estimation plays a pivotal role in various space missions.Deep learning enhances monocular spacecraft pose estimation,but high computational demands necessitate model simplification for onboard systems.In this paper,we aim to achieve an optimal balance between accuracy and computational efficiency.We present a Perspective-n-Point(PnP)based method for spacecraft pose estimation,leveraging lightweight neural networks to localize semantic keypoints and reduce computational load.Since the accuracy of keypoint localization is closely related to the heatmap resolution,we devise an efficient upsampling module to increase the resolution of heatmaps with minimal overhead.Furthermore,the heatmaps predicted by the lightweight models tend to show high-level noise.To tackle this issue,we propose a weighting strategy by analyzing the statistical characteristics of predicted semantic keypoints and substantially improve the pose estimation accuracy.The experiments carried out on the SPEED dataset underscore the prospect of our method in engineering applications.We dramatically reduce the model parameters to 0.7 M,merely 2.5%of that required by the top-performing method,and achieve lower pose estimation error and better real-time performance.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62266045)National Science and Technology Major Project of China(No.2022YFE0138600)。
文摘This paper presents a manifold-optimized Error-State Kalman Filter(ESKF)framework for unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)pose estimation,integrating Inertial Measurement Unit(IMU)data with GPS or LiDAR to enhance estimation accuracy and robustness.We employ a manifold-based optimization approach,leveraging exponential and logarithmic mappings to transform rotation vectors into rotation matrices.The proposed ESKF framework ensures state variables remain near the origin,effectively mitigating singularity issues and enhancing numerical stability.Additionally,due to the small magnitude of state variables,second-order terms can be neglected,simplifying Jacobian matrix computation and improving computational efficiency.Furthermore,we introduce a novel Kalman filter gain computation strategy that dynamically adapts to low-dimensional and high-dimensional observation equations,enabling efficient processing across different sensor modalities.Specifically,for resource-constrained UAV platforms,this method significantly reduces computational cost,making it highly suitable for real-time UAV applications.
基金The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities provided financial support for this research.
文摘Graph convolutional network(GCN)as an essential tool in human action recognition tasks have achieved excellent performance in previous studies.However,most current skeleton-based action recognition using GCN methods use a shared topology,which cannot flexibly adapt to the diverse correlations between joints under different motion features.The video-shooting angle or the occlusion of the body parts may bring about errors when extracting the human pose coordinates with estimation algorithms.In this work,we propose a novel graph convolutional learning framework,called PCCTR-GCN,which integrates pose correction and channel topology refinement for skeleton-based human action recognition.Firstly,a pose correction module(PCM)is introduced,which corrects the pose coordinates of the input network to reduce the error in pose feature extraction.Secondly,channel topology refinement graph convolution(CTR-GC)is employed,which can dynamically learn the topology features and aggregate joint features in different channel dimensions so as to enhance the performance of graph convolution networks in feature extraction.Finally,considering that the joint stream and bone stream of skeleton data and their dynamic information are also important for distinguishing different actions,we employ a multi-stream data fusion approach to improve the network’s recognition performance.We evaluate the model using top-1 and top-5 classification accuracy.On the benchmark datasets iMiGUE and Kinetics,the top-1 classification accuracy reaches 55.08%and 36.5%,respectively,while the top-5 classification accuracy reaches 89.98%and 59.2%,respectively.On the NTU dataset,for the two benchmark RGB+Dsettings(X-Sub and X-View),the classification accuracy achieves 89.7%and 95.4%,respectively.
文摘[Objective]Fish pose estimation(FPE)provides fish physiological information,facilitating health monitoring in aquaculture.It aids decision-making in areas such as fish behavior recognition.When fish are injured or deficient,they often display abnormal behaviors and noticeable changes in the positioning of their body parts.Moreover,the unpredictable posture and orientation of fish during swimming,combined with the rapid swimming speed of fish,restrict the current scope of research in FPE.In this research,a FPE model named HPFPE is presented to capture the swimming posture of fish and accurately detect their key points.[Methods]On the one hand,this model incorporated the CBAM module into the HRNet framework.The attention module enhanced accuracy without adding computational complexity,while effectively capturing a broader range of contextual information.On the other hand,the model incorporated dilated convolution to increase the receptive field,allowing it to capture more spatial context.[Results and Discussions]Experiments showed that compared with the baseline method,the average precision(AP)of HPFPE based on different backbones and input sizes on the oplegnathus punctatus datasets had increased by 0.62,1.35,1.76,and 1.28 percent point,respectively,while the average recall(AR)had also increased by 0.85,1.50,1.40,and 1.00,respectively.Additionally,HPFPE outperformed other mainstream methods,including DeepPose,CPM,SCNet,and Lite-HRNet.Furthermore,when compared to other methods using the ornamental fish data,HPFPE achieved the highest AP and AR values of 52.96%,and 59.50%,respectively.[Conclusions]The proposed HPFPE can accurately estimate fish posture and assess their swimming patterns,serving as a valuable reference for applications such as fish behavior recognition.
