Patent Document ID: 8958600
Application ID: 13702266
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processor for detection and tracking of a 3D pose of each of multiple objects in a sequence of monocular images, the 3D pose representing at least a 3D configuration of movable parts of the object, the image processor comprising: one or more 2D pose detectors for estimating a pose of each of the multiple objects in an image; a 2D tracking and viewpoint estimation computation part for receiving the outputs of the 2D pose detectors and being adapted to apply 2D tracking by detection, the 2D tracking exploiting temporal coherency; and a 3D pose estimation computation part for estimating and tracking the 3D poses of the multiple objects in the sequence of images from the output of the 2D tracking and viewpoint estimation computation part; wherein the image processor further comprises a 2D viewpoint detector for estimating a viewpoint of each of the multiple objects in the image; and the 2D tracking and viewpoint estimation computation part further receiving the outputs of the 2D viewpoint detector and being adapted to at least improve the outputs of the 2D viewpoint detector; the 2D tracking and viewpoint estimation computation part using the 2D tracking by detection for viewpoint tracking; and the 3D pose estimation computation part being adapted to lift 2D poses to recover 3D pose images by relying on at least a set of 3D exemplars and the output of the 2D tracking and viewpoint estimation computation part.