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ArticleScience advances2022

Pixels2Pose: Super-resolution time-of-flight imaging for 3D pose estimation.

Alice Ruget, Max Tyler, Germán Mora Martín, Stirling Scholes, Feng Zhu, Istvan Gyongy, Brent Hearn, Steve McLaughlin, Abderrahim Halimi, Jonathan Leach

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Alice RugetSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6280-2760
Max TylerSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.
Germán Mora MartínSchool of Engineering, Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1338-5002
Stirling ScholesSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.
Feng ZhuSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3221-0454
Istvan GyongySchool of Engineering, Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, UK.
Brent HearnImaging Sub-group, STMicroelectronics, Edinburgh EH3 5DA, UK.
Steve McLaughlinSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9558-8294
Abderrahim HalimiSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8112-5352
Jonathan LeachSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3561-4953

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-photon-sensitive depth sensors are being increasingly used in next-generation electronics for human pose and gesture recognition. However, cost-effective sensors typically have a low spatial resolution, restricting their use to basic motion identification and simple object detection. Here, we perform a temporal to spatial mapping that drastically increases the resolution of a simple time-of-flight sensor, i.e., an initial resolution of 4 × 4 pixels to depth images of resolution 32 × 32 pixels. The output depth maps can then be used for accurate three-dimensional human pose estimation of multiple people. We develop a new explainable framework that provides intuition to how our network uses its input data and provides key information about the relevant parameters. Our work greatly expands the use cases of simple single-photon avalanche detector time-of-flight sensors and opens up promising possibilities for future super-resolution techniques applied to other types of sensors with similar data types, i.e., radar and sonar.

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