CapeX: Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation from Textual Point Explanation

Matan Rusanovsky, Or Hirschorn, Shai Avidan

Keywords: 2D Pose Estimation, Class-Agnostic, Few-Shot, Vision-Language Model

TL;DR: Category agnostic pose estimation using a pose-graph, where nodes represent keypoints that are described with text, achieving SOTA results on the known MP-100 benchmark.

Abstract:

Conventional 2D pose estimation models are constrained by their design to specific object categories. This limits their applicability to predefined objects. To overcome these limitations, category-agnostic pose estimation (CAPE) emerged as a solution. CAPE aims to facilitate keypoint localization for diverse object categories using a unified model, which can generalize from minimal annotated support images.
Recent CAPE works have produced object poses based on arbitrary keypoint definitions annotated on a user-provided support image. Our work departs from conventional CAPE methods, which require a support image, by adopting a text-based approach instead of the support image.
Specifically, we use a pose-graph, where nodes represent keypoints that are described with text. This representation takes advantage of the abstraction of text descriptions and the structure imposed by the graph.
Our approach effectively breaks symmetry, preserves structure, and improves occlusion handling.
We validate our novel approach using the MP-100 benchmark, a comprehensive dataset covering over 100 categories and 18,000 images. MP-100 is structured so that the evaluation categories are unseen during training, making it especially suited for CAPE. Under a 1-shot setting, our solution achieves a notable performance boost of 1.26\%, establishing a new state-of-the-art for CAPE. Additionally, we enhance the dataset by providing text description annotations for both training and testing. We also include alternative text annotations specifically for testing the model's ability to generalize across different textual descriptions, further increasing its value for future research. Our code and dataset are publicly available at https://github.com/matanr/capex.

Primary Area: applications to computer vision, audio, language, and other modalities

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Submission Number: 2688