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    • Machine Learning
    • Artificial Intelligence

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    • Whole-body pose estimation predicts human keypoints but suffers from scale variation and semantic ambiguity.
    • Existing multiscale feature extraction methods fail to resolve semantic ambiguity in small body parts.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose the affiliation alignment network (A2Net) for enhanced whole-body pose estimation.
    • To overcome scale variation and semantic ambiguity issues in keypoint localization.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed A2Net utilizing vision-language hierarchical affiliations.
    • Constructed a multisemantic hierarchical language latent space via Text Affiliation Injection.
    • Employed optimal transport (OT) to align image and text features across hierarchical levels, creating a scale-independent latent space.

    Main Results:

    • A2Net demonstrated improved performance in whole-body pose estimation.
    • The model effectively addressed challenges posed by image scale variations and small-scale semantic ambiguity.
    • Experimental results on two datasets showed competitive performance against state-of-the-art methods.

    Conclusions:

    • A2Net offers a novel approach to whole-body pose estimation by leveraging vision-language alignment.
    • The proposed method successfully mitigates scale variation and semantic ambiguity, leading to more accurate keypoint localization.