End-to-end pairwise human proxemics from uncalibrated single images

In this work, we address the ill-posed problem of estimating pairwise metric distances between people using only a single uncalibrated image. We propose an end-to-end model, DeepProx, that takes as inputs two skeletal joints as a set of 2D image coordinates and outputs the metric distance between them. We show that an increased performance is achieved by a geometrical loss over simplified camera parameters provided at training time. Further, DeepProx achieves a remarkable generalisation over novel viewpoints through domain generalisation techniques. We validate our proposed method quantitatively and qualitatively against baselines on public datasets for which we provided groundtruth on interpersonal distances.