Combined discriminative and generative articulated pose and non-rigid shape estimation
Spotlight ID: W43 by Leonid Sigal, Alexandru Balan, Michael J. Black

Discriminative
Image

Generative
Hypothesis

Final Fit

Most likely sample

Features

Likelihood Pose + Shape Posterior

Goal: Fully automatic articulated pose and non-rigid shape estimation from images, with applications to biometrics and tacking.