People Watching: Human Actions as a Cue for Single View Geometry - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

People Watching: Human Actions as a Cue for Single View Geometry

David Fouhey, Vincent Delaitre, Abhinav Gupta, Alexei A. Efros, Ivan Laptev, and Josef Sivic
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 732 - 745, October, 2012

Abstract

We present an approach which exploits the coupling between human actions and scene geometry. We investigate the use of human pose as a cue for single-view 3D scene understanding. Our method builds upon recent advances in still-image pose estimation to extract functional and geometric constraints about the scene. These constraints are then used to improve state-of-the-art single-view 3D scene understanding approaches. The proposed method is validated on a collection of monocular time lapse sequences collected from YouTube and a dataset of still images of indoor scenes. We demonstrate that observing people performing different actions can significantly improve estimates of 3D scene geometry.

BibTeX

@conference{Fouhey-2012-7595,
author = {David Fouhey and Vincent Delaitre and Abhinav Gupta and Alexei A. Efros and Ivan Laptev and Josef Sivic},
title = {People Watching: Human Actions as a Cue for Single View Geometry},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision},
year = {2012},
month = {October},
pages = {732 - 745},
}