Inferring 3D body pose using variational semi-parametric regression

To deal with multi-modality in human pose estimation, mixture models or local models are introduced. However, problems with over-fitting and generalization are caused by our necessarily limited data, and the regression parameters need to be determined without resorting to slow and processor-hungry techniques, such as cross validation. To compensate these problems, we have developed a semi-parametric regression model in latent space with variational inference. Our method performed competitively in comparison to other current methods.