我們介紹一個用於人體姿勢估測的兩階段深度捲積類神經網路。在第一個階段，網路從輸入的圖直接提取特徵，並且結合所有特徵產生一個簡潔但有效預測關節點位置的結果，而不是對每個關節點產生一張熱圖來預測結果。之後，我們利用輸入的圖和從前一個階段生成的合成熱圖當作第二階段的輸入，得到更進一步的結果。我們在兩個資料庫上做評估:FLIC和LSP。我們的方法在FLIC上能夠達到目前最佳的效果。

We present a two-stage deep convolutional neural network for human pose estimation. In the first stage, it directly extracts features from the input image and combines all the features to generate a compact yet effective result for predicting the keypoint locations instead of producing one heatmap for each keypoint. Then, we use the input image and the synthetic heatmaps derived from the previous stage as the input of the second stage to get a refined result of pose estimation. We evaluate our method on two datasets: FLIC and LSP. Our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance on FLIC dataset.

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