In-bed Pressure-based Pose Estimation using Image Space Representation Learning

08/21/2019
by   Vandad Davoodnia, et al.
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In-bed pose estimation has shown value in fields such as hospital patient monitoring, sleep studies, and smart homes. In this paper, we present a novel in-bed pressure-based pose estimation approach capable of accurately detecting body parts from highly ambiguous pressure data. We exploit the idea of using a learnable pre-processing step, which transforms the vague pressure maps to a representation close to the expected input space of common purpose pose identification modules, which fail if solely used on the pressure data. To this end, a fully convolutional network with multiple scales is used as the learnable pre-processing step to provide the pose-specific characteristics of the pressure maps to the pre-trained pose identification module. A combination of loss functions is used to model the constraints, ensuring that unclear body parts are reconstructed correctly while preventing the pre-processing block from generating arbitrary images. The evaluation results show high visual fidelity in the generated pre-processed images as well as high detection rates in pose estimation. Furthermore, we show that the trained pre-processing block can be effective for pose identification models for which it has not been trained as well.

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