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VARPose enhances 2D pose estimation with autoregressive modeling

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Researchers have introduced VARPose, a novel method for enhancing 2D human pose estimation by adaptively densifying sparse poses. This technique utilizes Visual Autoregressive Modeling (VAR) and a Granularity-agnostic Pose Tokenizer (GPT) to create a unified, multi-scale discrete representation of poses. The UniSkelar model then predicts token sequences for increasing pose density in a coarse-to-fine manner, improving downstream tasks like 3D pose estimation and human mesh recovery. AI

IMPACT Enhances 3D pose estimation and human mesh recovery by improving 2D pose densification.

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VARPose enhances 2D pose estimation with autoregressive modeling

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Kaiyuan Pu, Tiantian Yang, Dan Zeng ·

    VARPose: Flexible 2D Pose Densification via Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Enhanced 3D Lifting

    arXiv:2608.02214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual AutoRegressive Modeling (VAR) has excelled in natural image generation via next-scale prediction, but its use on topology-structured data like human skeletons is still unexplored. VARPose is proposed to adaptively densify 2D …

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