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Poster

HandDiff: 3D Hand Pose Estimation with Diffusion on Image-Point Cloud

WENCAN CHENG · Hao Tang · Luc Van Gool · Jong Hwan Ko


Abstract:

Extracting keypoint locations from input hand frames, known as 3D hand pose estimation, is a critical task in various human-computer interaction applications. Essentially, the 3D hand pose estimation can be regarded as a 3D point subset generative problem conditioned on input frames. Thanks to the recent significant progress on diffusion-based generative models, hand pose estimation can also benefit from the diffusion model to estimate keypoint locations with high quality. However, directly deploying the existing diffusion models to solve hand pose estimation is non-trivial, since they cannot achieve the complex permutation mapping and precise localization. Based on this motivation, this paper proposes HandDiff, a diffusion-based hand pose estimation model that iteratively denoises accurate hand pose conditioned on hand-shaped image-point clouds. In order to recover keypoint permutation and accurate location, we further introduce joint-wise condition and local detail condition. Experimental results show that the proposed model significantly outperforms the existing methods on three hand pose benchmark datasets. Codes and pre-trained models are publicly available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/HandDiff_-A032.

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