# Learning Structure-Guided Diffusion Model for 2D Human Pose Estimation Source: [Learning Structure-Guided Diffusion Model for 2D Human Pose Estimation]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-26T01:30:17.231Z Authors: Zhongwei Qiu, Qiansheng Yang, Jian Wang, Xiyu Wang, Chang Xu, Dongmei Fu, Kun Yao, Junyu Han, Errui Ding, Jingdong Wang Published: 2023-06-29T16:24:32.000Z ## Abstract One of the mainstream schemes for 2D human pose estimation (HPE) is learning keypoints heatmaps by a neural network. Existing methods typically improve the quality of heatmaps by customized architectures, such as high-resolution representation and vision Transformers. In this paper, we propose \\textbf{DiffusionPose}, a new scheme that formulates 2D HPE as a keypoints heatmaps generation problem from noised heatmaps. During training, the keypoints are diffused to random distribution by adding noises and the diffusion model learns to recover ground-truth heatmaps from noised heatmaps with respect to conditions constructed by image feature. During inference, the diffusion model generates heatmaps from initialized heatmaps in a progressive denoising way. Moreover, we further explore improving the performance of DiffusionPose with conditions from human structural information. Extensive experiments show the prowess of our DiffusionPose, with improvements of 1.6, 1.2, and 1.2 mAP on widely-used COCO, CrowdPose, and AI Challenge datasets, respectively. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()