Learning to Estimate 3D Hand Pose
from Single RGB Images

Christian Zimmermann Thomas Brox

University of Freiburg

Abstract

Low-cost consumer depth cameras and deep learning have enabled reasonable 3D hand pose estimation from single depth images. In this paper, we present an approach that estimates 3D hand pose from regular RGB images. This task has far more ambiguities due to the missing depth information. To this end, we propose a deep network that learns a network-implicit 3D articulation prior. Together with detected keypoints in the images, this network yields good estimates of the 3D pose. We introduce a large scale 3D hand pose dataset based on synthetic hand models for training the involved networks. Experiments on a variety of test sets, including one on sign language recognition, demonstrate the feasibility of 3D hand pose estimation on single color images.



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C. Zimmermann and T. Brox, “Learning to Estimate 3D Hand Pose from Single RGB Images“, ICCV 2017. [BibTex]