Estimating Pose of Interacting People

A good description of the configuration of the human body enables many interesting applications within e.g. video surveillance, motion capture, video indexing, and human-computer interaction.

The data presented on this page relates to work on some of the challenges that arise when doing pose estimation of interacting people in video sequences.

Related paper:
Pose Estimation of Interacting People using Pictorial Structures;
P. Fihl and T.B. Moeslund;
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, August 2010

CVMT Pose data set

The data set contain images with two interacting people. Two sets of images are provided (all .png images):
  1. CVRR Hug: two people hugging. Images were recorded at the CVRR at UCSD (see left image above for example).
  2. HERMES Crossing: two people shaking hands and crossing a street together. Images were recorded as part of the EU project HERMES (see right image above for example).

Number of frames

Image resolution

Ground truth frames

Download

CVRR Hug 

148

696x520 px

50

.zip(~12Mb)

HERMES Crossing 

161

360x240 px

75

.zip(~133Mb)

Ground truth annotations are available as Matlab .mat files. The ground truth is the image coordinates of the corners of the enclosing rectangle of each visible body part. Body parts are furthermore marked as occluded when no more than half of the body part is visible (see example visualization below).

10 body parts are annotated: head, torso, left/right upper arm, left/right lower arm, left/right upper leg, and left/right lower leg (white body parts are occluded).

The .mat files contain a struct (size: num_images x num_persons). Each entry in this struct holds the annotations for a person in an image (as another struct). For each person a 10x4x2 matrix contains the four (x,y) coordinates of the body part rectangles and a 10x1 matrix contains the binary indication of whether or not the body part is occluded.

Some body parts are not visible at all in the images and the coordinates of the body part rectangles are in such cases set to (0,0).


Contact Preben Fihl for further information about the dataset.

Maintained by Preben Fihl
Last update: July 13th, 2010