2023/03/13 by Hyeongseok Son, Son, Hyeongseok, Sangil Jung +9
Computer Science · #Advanced Neural Network Applications #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human Pose and Action Recognition #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2303.06800
openalex publication_date 2023/03/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Human is one of the most essential classes in visual recognition tasks such as detection, segmentation, and pose estimation. Although much effort has been put into individual tasks, multi-task learning for these three tasks has been rarely studied. In this paper, we explore a compact multi-task network architecture that maximally shares the parameters of the multiple tasks via object-centric learning. To this end, we propose a novel query design to encode the human instance information effectively, called human-centric query (HCQ). HCQ enables for the query to learn explicit and structural information of human as well such as keypoints. Besides, we utilize HCQ in prediction heads of the target tasks directly and also interweave HCQ with the deformable attention in Transformer decoders to exploit a well-learned object-centric representation. Experimental results show that the proposed multi-task network achieves comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art task-specific models in human detection, segmentation, and pose estimation task, while it consumes less computational costs.