ArtiBoost: Boosting Articulated 3D Hand-Object Pose Estimation via Online Exploration and Synthesis
Year: 2021
Type: preprint
Abstract: Estimating the articulated 3D hand-object pose from a single RGB image is a highly ambiguous and challenging problem, requiring large-scale datasets that contain diverse hand poses, object types, and camera viewpoints. Most real-world datasets lack these diversities. In contrast, data synthesis can easily ensure those diversities separately. However, constructing both valid and diverse hand-object interactions and efficiently learning from the vast synthetic data is still challenging. To address the above issues, we propose ArtiBoost, a lightweight online data enhancement method. ArtiBoost can cover diverse hand-object poses and camera viewpoints through sampling in a Composited hand-object Configuration and Viewpoint space (CCV-space) and can adaptively enrich the current hard-discernable items by loss-feedback and sample re-weighting. ArtiBoost alternatively performs data exploration and synthesis within a learning pipeline, and those synthetic data are blended into real-world source data for training. We apply ArtiBoost on a simple learning baseline network and witness the performance boost on several hand-object benchmarks. Our models and code are available at https://github.com/lixiny/ArtiBoost.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institutions: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G1866817718
OpenAlex ID: W3201010441