This paper addresses the problem of 3D human body shape and pose estimation
from RGB images. Recent progress in this field has focused on single images,
video or multi-view images as inputs. In contrast, we propose a new task: shape
and pose estimation from a group of multiple images of a human subject, without
constraints on subject pose, camera viewpoint or background conditions between
images in the group. Our solution to this task predicts distributions over SMPL
body shape and pose parameters conditioned on the input images in the group. We
probabilistically combine predicted body shape distributions from each image to
obtain a final multi-image shape prediction. We show that the additional body
shape information present in multi-image input groups improves 3D human shape
estimation metrics compared to single-image inputs on the SSP-3D dataset and a
private dataset of tape-measured humans. In addition, predicting distributions
over 3D bodies allows us to quantify pose prediction uncertainty, which is
useful when faced with challenging input images with significant occlusion. Our
method demonstrates meaningful pose uncertainty on the 3DPW dataset and is
competitive with the state-of-the-art in terms of pose estimation metrics.

本研究提出了一种新的任务，在人体形态和姿势估计中使用多幅图像组成的分布预测模型，使我们能够量化姿势预测的不确定性，并提高了 3D 人体形态估计度量标准。