Human pose estimation in complex background videos via Transformer-based multi-scale feature integration

Abstract

Human posture estimation is still a hot research topic. Previous algorithms based on traditional machine learning have difficulties in feature extraction and low fusion efficiency. To address these problems, we proposed a Transformer-based method. We combined three techniques, namely the Transformer-based feature extraction module, the multi-scale feature fusion module, and the occlusion processing mechanism, to capture the human pose. The Transformer-based feature extraction module uses the self-attention mechanism to extract key features from the input sequence, the multi-scale feature fusion module fuses feature information of different scales to enhance the perception ability of the model, and the occlusion processing mechanism can effectively handle occlusion in the data and effectively remove background interference. Our method has shown excellent performance through verification on the standard dataset Human3.6M and the wild video dataset, achieving accurate pose prediction in both complex actions and challenging samples.