Weak-shot Pose Estimation via Keyness and Correspondence Transfer
Junjie Chen, Zeyu Luo, Wenhui Jiang, Zezheng Liu, Li Niu, Yuming Fang
Pose estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision, but generally requires large-scale annotated data for training. Few-shot and unsupervised pose estimation are prevalent economical paradigms, but the former still requires annotations for extensive novel classes while the latter only supports for single class. In this paper, we focus on the task of weak-shot pose estimation, where multiple novel classes are learned from unlabeled images with the help of labeled base classes. The key problem is what to transfer from base classes to novel classes, and we propose to transfer keyness and correspondence, which essentially belong to comparing entities and thus are class-agnostic and class-wise transferable. The keyness compares which pixel in the local region is more key, which can guide the keypoints of novel classes to move towards the local maximum (i.e., obtaining keypoints). The correspondence compares whether the two pixels belongs to the same semantic part, which can activate the keypoints of novel classes by reinforcing the consistency between corresponding points on two paired images. By transferring keyness and correspondence, our framework achieves favourable performance for weak-shot pose estimation. Extensive experiments and analyses on large-scale benchmark MP-100 demonstrate our effectiveness.