HuPR: A Benchmark for Human Pose Estimation Using Millimeter Wave Radar
Shih-Po Lee, Niraj Prakash Kini, Wen-Hsiao Peng Ching-Wen Ma Jenq-Neng Hwang
Abstract
This paper introduces a novel human pose estimation benchmark, Human Pose with Millimeter Wave Radar (HuPR), that includes synchronized vision and radio signal components. This dataset is created using cross-calibrated mmWave radar sensors and a monocular RGB camera for cross-modality training of radar-based human pose estimation. In addition to the benchmark, we propose a cross-modality training framework that leverages the ground-truth 2D keypoints representing human body joints for training, which are systematically generated from the pre-trained 2D pose estimation network based on a monocular camera input image, avoiding laborious manual label annotation efforts. Our intensive experiments on the HuPR benchmark show that the proposed scheme achieves better human pose estimation performance with only radar data, as compared to traditional pre-processing solutions and previous radio-frequency-based methods.
Dataset
Hardware configuration
Examples of actions
Visualization of data
Top-left: Horizontal radar heatmap Top-right: RGB frame
Bottom-left: Heatmap of keypoints Bottom-right: Vertical radar heatmap
Methodology
Pre-processing method
Our VRDAEMap
Our proposed pre-processing method generates the velocity-specific range-doppler-azimuth-elevation map (VRDAEMap) representation by additionally performing FFT along the chirp dimension, to extract the doppler velocity information. We first perform 4D FFT on the raw data along all four dimensions of ADCsamples, chirps, horizontal antenna, and vertical antenna to obtain the range-doppler-azimuth-elevation map (RDAEMap). Instead of directly using the RDAEMap, which is sparse and inefficient to process, we choose a specific range of the velocity values (named VRDAEMap)
Cross and Self Attention Module (CSAM)
Experimental Results
Our results on the test set
Our results on special conditions
Citation
S.-P. Lee, N. P. Kini, W.-H. Peng, C.-W. Ma, and J.-N. Hwang, "HuPR: A Benchmark for Human Pose Estimation Using Millimeter Wave Radar" IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Jan 2023.
                                    @misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2210.12564,
                                        doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2210.12564},
                                        url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12564},
                                        author = {Lee, Shih-Po and Kini, Niraj Prakash and Peng, Wen-Hsiao and Ma, Ching-Wen and Hwang, Jenq-Neng},
                                        keywords = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)},
                                        title = {HuPR: A Benchmark for Human Pose Estimation Using Millimeter Wave Radar},
                                        publisher = {arXiv},
                                        year = {2022},
                                        copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International}
                                    }
                
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