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NRDF: Neural Riemannian Distance Fields for Learning Articulated Pose Priors

Yannan He · Garvita Tiwari · Tolga Birdal · Jan Lenssen · Gerard Pons-Moll

Arch 4A-E Poster #145
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Wed 19 Jun 10:30 a.m. PDT — noon PDT

Abstract:

Faithfully modeling the space of articulations is a crucial task that allows recovery and generation of realistic poses, and remains a notorious challenge. To this end, we introduce Neural Riemannian Distance Fields (NRDFs), data-driven priors modeling the space of plausible articulations, represented as the zero-level-set of a neural field in a high-dimensional product-quaternion space. To train NRDFs only on positive examples, we introduce a new \textbf{sampling algorithm}, ensuring that the geodesic distances follow a desired distribution, yielding a principled distance field learning paradigm. We then devise a \textbf{projection algorithm} to map any random pose onto the level-set by an \textbf{adaptive-step Riemannian optimizer}, adhering to the product manifold of joint rotations at all times. NRDFs can compute the Riemannian gradient via backpropagation and by mathematical analogy, are related to Riemannian flow matching, a recent generative model. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of NRDF against other pose priors in various downstream tasks, \emph{i.e.}, pose generation, image-based pose estimation, and solving inverse kinematics, highlighting NRDF's superior performance. Besides humans, NRDF's versatility extends to hand and animal poses, as it can effectively represent any articulation.

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