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One-Shot Learning for Human Affordance Detection

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The diversity of action possibilities offered by an environment, a.k.a affordances, cannot be addressed in a scalable manner simply from object categories or semantics, which are limitless. To this end, we present a one-shot learning approach that trains on one or a handful of human-scene interaction samples. Then, given a previously unseen scene, we can predict human affordances and generate the associated articulated 3D bodies. Our experiments show that our approach generates physically plausible interactions that are perceived as more natural in 60–70% of the comparisons with other methods.

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Abel Pacheco-Ortega thanks the Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) for the scholarship provided for his studies with the scholarship number 709908. Walterio Mayol-Cuevas thanks the visual egocentric research activity partially funded by UK EPSRC EP/N013964/1.

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Pacheco-Ortega, A., Mayol-Cuervas, W. (2023). One-Shot Learning for Human Affordance Detection. In: Karlinsky, L., Michaeli, T., Nishino, K. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2022 Workshops. ECCV 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13803. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25066-8_46

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