Deep 3D Pose Dictionary: 3D Human Pose Estimation from Single RGB Image Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network

In this work, we propose a new approach for 3D human pose estimation from a single monocular RGB image based on a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). The proposed method depends on reducing the huge search space of the continuous-valued 3D human poses by discretizing and approximating these continuous poses into many discrete key-poses. These key-poses constitute more restricted search space and then can be considered as multiple-class candidates of 3D human poses. Thus, a suitable classification technique is trained using a set of 3D key-poses and their corresponding RGB images to build a model to predict the 3D pose class of an input monocular RGB image. We use deep CNN as a suitable classifier because it is proven to be the most accurate technique for RGB image classification. Our approach is proven to achieve good accuracy which is comparable to the state-of-the-art methods.