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Learning a 3D Human Pose Distance Metric from Geometric Pose Descriptor
November 2011 (vol. 17 no. 11)
pp. 1676-1689
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Cheng Chen, Yueting Zhuang, Feiping Nie, Yi Yang, Fei Wu, Jun Xiao, "Learning a 3D Human Pose Distance Metric from Geometric Pose Descriptor," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 1676-1689, November, 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2010.272,
author = {Cheng Chen and Yueting Zhuang and Feiping Nie and Yi Yang and Fei Wu and Jun Xiao},
title = {Learning a 3D Human Pose Distance Metric from Geometric Pose Descriptor},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {17},
number = {11},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2011},
pages = {1676-1689},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2010.272},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - Learning a 3D Human Pose Distance Metric from Geometric Pose Descriptor
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SN - 1077-2626
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A1 - Cheng Chen,
A1 - Yueting Zhuang,
A1 - Feiping Nie,
A1 - Yi Yang,
A1 - Fei Wu,
A1 - Jun Xiao,
PY - 2011
KW - Human motion
KW - character animation
KW - pose features
KW - distance metric
KW - semisupervised learning.
VL - 17
JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Cheng Chen, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny
Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
Feiping Nie, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Yi Yang, ITEE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Fei Wu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
Jun Xiao, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
Estimating 3D pose similarity is a fundamental problem on 3D motion data. Most previous work calculates L2-like distance of joint orientations or coordinates, which does not sufficiently reflect the pose similarity of human perception. In this paper, we present a new pose distance metric. First, we propose a new rich pose feature set called Geometric Pose Descriptor (GPD). GPD is more effective in encoding pose similarity by utilizing features on geometric relations among body parts, as well as temporal information such as velocities and accelerations. Based on GPD, we propose a semisupervised distance metric learning algorithm called Regularized Distance Metric Learning with Sparse Representation (RDSR), which integrates information from both unsupervised data relationship and labels. We apply the proposed pose distance metric to applications of motion transition decision and content-based pose retrieval. Quantitative evaluations demonstrate that our method achieves better results with only a small amount of human labels, showing that the proposed pose distance metric is a promising building block for various 3D-motion related applications.

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Index Terms:
Human motion, character animation, pose features, distance metric, semisupervised learning.
Citation:
Cheng Chen, Yueting Zhuang, Feiping Nie, Yi Yang, Fei Wu, Jun Xiao, "Learning a 3D Human Pose Distance Metric from Geometric Pose Descriptor," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 1676-1689, Nov. 2011, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2010.272
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