PAFUSE: Part-based Diffusion for 3D Whole-Body Pose Estimation

Official PyTorch implementation of PAFUSE.

PAFUSE: Part-based Diffusion for 3D Whole-Body Pose Estimation,
Nermin Samet, Cédric Rommel, David Picard, Eduardo Valle,
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, T-CAP, 2024.

Summary

In a whole-body skeleton, different keypoints have different scales and variations which presents a challenge for spatio-temporal prediction. Current approaches process all keypoints in a single network and, as such, have difficulties adapting to the different statistics of each body part. Our approach groups keypoints by body parts that share similar behavior and processes them with dedicated networks, allowing better-adapted predictions.

Dependencies

Make sure you have the following dependencies installed (python):

• pytorch >= 1.13.0
• matplotlib >= 3.3.0
• einops
• timm
• tensorboard
• hydra-core

H3WB Dataset

PAFUSE is trained and evaluated on the Human3.6M 3D WholeBody (H3WB) dataset. We used the official train and test npz files, shared in the official repository of H3WB. Please donwload and put them under the data folder.

Evaluation

You can download our pre-trained model, unzip and put it under checkpoint directory. To evaluate our PAFUSE using GT 2D keypoints available in the H3WB test file, please run:

python main_h3wb.py  general.checkpoint=checkpoint general.evaluate='pafuse_model.bin' ft2d.num_proposals=$PROPOSAL_NUM ft2d.sampling_timesteps=$TIMESTEP

You can balance efficiency and accuracy by adjusting num_proposals (number of hypotheses) and sampling_timesteps.

For visualization on H3WB, please run:

python main_draw_h3wb.py general.checkpoint=checkpoint general.evaluate='pafuse_model.bin' ft2d.num_proposals=$PROPOSAL_NUM ft2d.sampling_timesteps=$TIMESTEP

The results will be saved in ./plot directory.

Training from scratch

To train our model using the GT 2D keypoints, please run:

python main_h3wb.py  general.checkpoint=checkpoint/$SAVE_NAME  

Configuration

You could adjust training and evaluation parameters accordingly in the config file.

Testing on in-the-wild videos

We follow D3DP to test our model on custom videos. Note that we did not train a model specifically for in the wild videos.

We use OpenPifPaf to extract wholebody 2D keypoints. After installing OpenPifPaf, run the following command to get predicted 2D wholebody kps:

python3 -m openpifpaf.video --checkpoint=shufflenetv2k30-wholebody --source /path/to/video.mp4 --json-output --force-complete-pose

After having the 2D KPs, first change the video_path parameter in the config file to the full path of the video to test (or you can pass it as in_the_wild.video_path while running), then you could run the following:

python ./in_the_wild/h3wb_diffusion.py general.checkpoint=checkpoint general.evaluate='pafuse_model.bin' 

In order to create visuals for in-the-wild experiments as in our paper, you need to first install ffmpeg, then you can use following scripts:

file_pth=/path/to/predicted/dir
ffmpeg -framerate 5 -i $file_pth/frame%d_t4.png -vf scale=1024:720 $file_pth/pred.mp4
ffmpeg -framerate 5 -i $file_pth/frame_%d.jpg -vf scale=1024:720 $file_pth/input.mp4
ffmpeg -i $file_pth/input.mp4 -i $file_pth/pred.mp4 -filter_complex hstack $file_pth/merged.mp4
ffmpeg  -i $file_pth/merged.mp4  -vf "split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" -loop 0 $file_pth/merged.gif

Here you can adjust framerate to have faster running videos.

Citation

If you find PAFUSE useful for your research, please cite our paper as follows.

N. Samet, C. Rommel, D. Picard, E. Valle, "PAFUSE: Part-based Diffusion for 3D Whole-Body Pose Estimation", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, Towards a Complete Analysis of People: Fine-grained Understanding for Real-World Applications, 2024.

BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{pafuse,
  author = {Nermin Samet and Cédric Rommel and David Picard and Eduardo Valle},
  title = {PAFUSE: Part-based Diffusion for 3D Whole-Body Pose Estimation},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}
  booksubtitle = {Towards a Complete Analysis of People: Fine-grained Understanding for Real-World Applications},
  year = {2024},
}

Acknowledgement

Our implementation has borrowed codes from the following repositories. We thank the authors for releasing their codes.

• D3DP
• VideoPose
• H3WB