Ke Sun

TL;DR: This paper proposes a network that maintains high-resolution representations through the whole process of human pose estimation and empirically demonstrates the effectiveness of the network through the superior pose estimation results over two benchmark datasets: the COCO keypoint detection dataset and the MPII Human Pose dataset.

TL;DR: The superiority of the proposed HRNet in a wide range of applications, including human pose estimation, semantic segmentation, and object detection, is shown, suggesting that the HRNet is a stronger backbone for computer vision problems.

TL;DR: The High-Resolution Network (HRNet) as mentioned in this paper maintains high-resolution representations through the whole process by connecting the high-to-low resolution convolution streams in parallel and repeatedly exchanging the information across resolutions.

TL;DR: A simple modification is introduced to augment the high-resolution representation by aggregating the (upsampled) representations from all the parallel convolutions rather than only the representation from thehigh-resolution convolution, which leads to stronger representations, evidenced by superior results.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a disentangled keypoint regression (DEKR) method, which adopts adaptive convolutions through pixel-wise spatial transformer to activate the pixels in the keypoint regions and accordingly learn representations from them.