Zoom in to the details of human-centric videos

Presenting high-resolution (HR) human appearance is always critical for the human-centric videos. However, current imagery equipment can hardly capture HR details all the time. Existing super-resolution algorithms barely mitigate the problem by only considering universal and low-level priors of im-age patches. In contrast, our algorithm is under bias towards the human body super-resolution by taking advantage of high-level prior defined by HR human appearance. Firstly, a motion analysis module extracts inherent motion pattern from the HR reference video to refine the pose estimation of the low-resolution (LR) sequence. Furthermore, a human body reconstruction module maps the HR texture in the reference frames onto a 3D mesh model. Consequently, the input LR videos get super-resolved HR human sequences are generated conditioned on the original LR videos as well as few HR reference frames. Experiments on an existing dataset and real-world data captured by hybrid cameras show that our approach generates superior visual quality of human body compared with the traditional method.

PANDA: A Gigapixel-level Human-centric Video Dataset

We present PANDA, the first gigaPixel-level humAN-centric viDeo dAtaset, for large-scale, long-term, and multi-object visual analysis. The videos in PANDA were captured by a gigapixel camera and cover real-world scenes with both wide field-of-view (~1 square kilometer area) and high-resolution details (~gigapixel-level/frame). The scenes may contain 4k head counts with over 100x scale variation. PANDA provides enriched and hierarchical ground-truth annotations, including 15,974.6k bounding boxes, 111.8k fine-grained attribute labels, 12.7k trajectories, 2.2k groups and 2.9k interactions. We benchmark the human detection and tracking tasks. Due to the vast variance of pedestrian pose, scale, occlusion and trajectory, existing approaches are challenged by both accuracy and efficiency. Given the uniqueness of PANDA with both wide FoV and high resolution, a new task of interaction-aware group detection is introduced. We design a 'global-to-local zoom-in' framework, where global trajectories and local interactions are simultaneously encoded, yielding promising results. We believe PANDA will contribute to the community of artificial intelligence and praxeology by understanding human behaviors and interactions in large-scale real-world scenes. PANDA Website: http://www.panda-dataset.com.