Learning Joint Reconstruction of Hands and Manipulated Objects

Yana Hasson, Gul Varol, Dimitrios Tzionas, Igor Kalevatykh, Michael J. Black, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019, pp. 11807-11816

Abstract


Estimating hand-object manipulations is essential for in- terpreting and imitating human actions. Previous work has made significant progress towards reconstruction of hand poses and object shapes in isolation. Yet, reconstructing hands and objects during manipulation is a more challeng- ing task due to significant occlusions of both the hand and object. While presenting challenges, manipulations may also simplify the problem since the physics of contact re- stricts the space of valid hand-object configurations. For example, during manipulation, the hand and object should be in contact but not interpenetrate. In this work, we regu- larize the joint reconstruction of hands and objects with ma- nipulation constraints. We present an end-to-end learnable model that exploits a novel contact loss that favors phys- ically plausible hand-object constellations. Our approach improves grasp quality metrics over baselines, using RGB images as input. To train and evaluate the model, we also propose a new large-scale synthetic dataset, ObMan, with hand-object manipulations. We demonstrate the transfer- ability of ObMan-trained models to real data.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Hasson_2019_CVPR,
author = {Hasson, Yana and Varol, Gul and Tzionas, Dimitrios and Kalevatykh, Igor and Black, Michael J. and Laptev, Ivan and Schmid, Cordelia},
title = {Learning Joint Reconstruction of Hands and Manipulated Objects},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2019}
}