| CALVIN group ETHZ PASCAL Stickmen V1.1
Annotated data and evaluation routines for 2D human pose estimation
Marcin Eichner, Vittorio Ferrari
Overview
Dataset sticks distribution
We release here annotations for 549 images from the PASCAL VOC 2008 trainval release [2]. The dataset consists mainly of amateur photographs with difficult illumination and low image quality. In each image one roughly upright and approximately frontal person is annotated by a 6-part stickman (i.e. one line segment indicating location, size and orientation for each part: head, torso, upper and lower arms). The annotated person is visible at least from the waist up. Results on this dataset have been first published in [1].
NOTE: this dataset has no overlap with VOC08/09/10 test sets.
In addition, the package includes official Matlab routines to evaluate the performance of your pose estimation system on this dataset and compare to our results from [3].
On the right, the scatter plot inspired by [5] depicts pose variability over this dataset. Stickmen are centered on the neck and scale normalized. Hence the plot captures only pose variability and does not show scale and location variability.
new in v1.1:
- results updated to [3], based on the detection windows obtained using [4]
Downloads
| Filename | Description | Size |
|---|---|---|
| ETHZ_PASCAL_Stickmen_v1.1.tgz | annotations for the included frames and matlab code to read and display the annotations and evaluate pose estimation performance. | 79 MB |
| README.txt | description of contents. | 12 kB |
| PCP_techrep2010_Pascal.png | plot showing pose estimation performance of [3] on this dataset | 13 kB |
| PCP_techrep2010_Pascal.fig | Matlab figure plot. You can overlay your performance curve on this plot in order to compare to our results from [3] | 18 kB |
Related Publications
[1] Eichner, M. and Ferrari, V.
Better Appearance Models for Pictorial Structures
Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2009.
Document: PDF
[2] M. Everingham, L. Van Gool, C. K. I. Williams, J. Winn, and A. Zisserman.
The PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge 2008 (VOC2008) Results.
Webpage, 2008.
[3] M.Eichner, M. Marin-Jimenez, A. Zisserman, V.Ferrari
Articulated Human Pose Estimation and Search in (Almost) Unconstrained Still Images
ETHZ Technical Report, 2010
Document: PDF
[4]
Calvin upper-body detector
Webpage, 2010.
[5] D.Tran, D.Forsyth
Improved Human Parsing with a Full Relational Model
Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010
Acknowledgements
This work is funded the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF