sigmas and kps_weights parameters used in training and evaluation

[yzrs]

Hi,Thanks for your contribution. I'm also working on animal pose estimation and I'm curious about the sigmas values for OKS computation and keypoints weights values for loss computation. If we use the values provided by cocoAPI, the model won't perform well because those values work for human pose estimation with different keypoints definition. So what are the values of the corresponding parameters you are using and where are they defined? I would be grateful for your reply. Best wishes.

[chaneyddtt]

Hi @yzrs, thanks for your interests. I use the same weights for different key points for loss computation during training. As far as I know, most existing pose estimation approaches do not specify weights values for loss computation. For OKS computation, I use the values provided by cocoAPI since I did not find the values defined for animals. It would be more correct to use animal-specific values if available.

[yzrs]

I see. Thanks a lot for your reply!