Cascaded Point Network for 3D Hand Pose Estimation*

Recent PointNet-family hand pose methods have the advantages of high pose estimation performance and small model size, and it is a key problem to get effective sample points for PointNet-family methods. In this paper, we propose a two-stage coarse to fine hand pose estimation method, which belongs to PointNet-family methods and explores a new sample point strategy. In the first stage, we use 3D coordinate and surface normal of normalized point cloud as input to regress coarse hand joints. In the second stage, we use the hand joints in the first stage as the initial sample points to refine the hand joints. Experiments on widely used datasets demonstrate that using joints as sample points is more effective and our method achieves top-rank performance.