# Graph Stacked Hourglass Networks for 3D Human Pose Estimation

**Authors:** Tianhan Xu, Wataru Takano  
**arXiv:** [2103.16385](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16385)  
**Date:** 2021-03-30  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/fr/paper/2103.16385v1/

## Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel graph convolutional network architecture, Graph Stacked Hourglass Networks, for 2D-to-3D human pose estimation tasks. The proposed architecture consists of repeated encoder-decoder, in which graph-structured features are processed across three different scales of human skeletal representations. This multi-scale architecture enables the model to learn both local and global feature representations, which are critical for 3D human pose estimation. We also introduce a multi-level feature learning approach using different-depth intermediate features and show the performance improvements that result from exploiting multi-scale, multi-level feature representations. Extensive experiments are conducted to validate our approach, and the results show that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art.