Dual-stream Spatio-Temporal GCN-Transformer Network for 3D Human Pose Estimation
This work addresses the limitations of existing Transformer-based methods for 3D human pose estimation, which struggle to effectively model local skeletal structures and inter-channel dependencies, leading to insufficient fusion of global and local features. To overcome this, the authors propose MixTGFormer, a novel dual-stream network that innovatively integrates Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) into the Transformer architecture. The core component is a spatio-temporal Mixformer module augmented with Squeeze-and-Excitation channel attention, enabling synergistic modeling of local-global relationships and efficient feature fusion. Evaluated on standard benchmarks, the method achieves state-of-the-art performance with P1 errors of 37.6 mm on Human3.6M and 15.7 mm on MPI-INF-3DHP.