Part ofAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25 (NIPS 2012)
Soumya Ghosh, Matthew Loper, Erik B. Sudderth, Michael J. Black
We develop a method for discovering the parts of an articulated object from aligned meshes capturing various three-dimensional (3D) poses. We adapt the distance dependent Chinese restaurant process (ddCRP) to allow nonparametric discovery of a potentially unbounded number of parts, while simultaneously guaranteeing a spatially connected segmentation. To allow analysis of datasets in which object instances have varying shapes, we model part variability across poses via affine transformations. By placing a matrix normal-inverse-Wishart prior on these affine transformations, we develop a ddCRP Gibbs sampler which tractably marginalizes over transformation uncertainty. Analyzing a dataset of humans captured in dozens of poses, we infer parts which provide quantitatively better motion predictions than conventional clustering methods.
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