PNP

Code for our SIGGRAPH 2024 paper "Physical Non-inertial Poser (PNP): Modeling Non-inertial Effects in Sparse-inertial Human Motion Capture". See Project Page.

Usage

Install dependencies

We use python 3.8.10. You should install chumpy open3d pybullet qpsolvers numpy-quaternion vctoolkit==0.1.5.39 and pytorch with CUDA (we use pytorch 2.0.1 with CUDA 11.8). You also need to compile and install rbdl 2.6.0 with python bindings and urdf reader addon.

If chumpy reports errors, comment the lines from numpy import bool ... that generate errors.

If quadprog solver is not found, install with pip install qpsolvers[quadprog]

If you have configured PIP, just use its environment and install missing dependencies.

Prepare SMPL body model

1. Download SMPL model from here. You should click SMPL for Python and download the version 1.0.0 for Python 2.7 (10 shape PCs). Then unzip it.
2. Rename and put the male model file into models/SMPL_male.pkl.

Prepare physics body model

1. Download the physics body model from here and unzip it.
2. Rename and put the files into models/physics.urdf, models/plane.obj, models/plane.urdf.

The physics model and the ground plane are modified from physcap.

Prepare pre-trained network weights

1. Download weights from here.
2. Rename and put the file into data/weights/PNP/weights.pt.

Prepare test datasets

1. Download the preprocessed DIP-IMU and TotalCapture dataset (with two different calibrations as listed in the paper) from here. Please note that by downloading the preprocessed datasets you agree to the same license conditions as for the DIP-IMU dataset (https://dip.is.tue.mpg.de/) and the TotalCapture dataset (https://cvssp.org/data/totalcapture/). You may only use the data for scientific purposes and cite the corresponding papers.
2. Rename and put the files into data/test_datasets/dipimu.pt, data/test_datasets/totalcapture_dipcalib.pt, data/test_datasets/totalcapture_officalib.pt.

We provided a process.py script, which was used to generate the preprocessed values from the raw datasets (not cleaned, may need some modifications).

Run the evaluation

python test.py

The pose/translation evaluation results for DIP-IMU and TotalCapture (DIP/Official Calibration) will be printed/drawn.

TODO

• Live Demo
• IMU synthesis

Citation

If you find the project helpful, please consider citing us:

@inproceedings{yi2024pnp,
  title={Physical Non-inertial Poser (PNP): Modeling Non-inertial Effects in Sparse-inertial Human Motion Capture},
  author={Yi, Xinyu and Zhou, Yuxiao and Xu, Feng},
  booktitle={SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference Papers},
  year={2024}
}