  In this paper, we propose a new architecture called Adaptive Graphical Model
Network (AGMN) to tackle the task of 2D hand pose estimation from a monocular
RGB image. The AGMN consists of two branches of deep convolutional neural
networks for calculating unary and pairwise potential functions, followed by a
graphical model inference module for integrating unary and pairwise potentials.
Unlike existing architectures proposed to combine DCNNs with graphical models,
our AGMN is novel in that the parameters of its graphical model are conditioned
on and fully adaptive to individual input images. Experiments show that our
approach outperforms the state-of-the-art method used in 2D hand keypoints
estimation by a notable margin on two public datasets. Code can be found at
https://github.com/deyingk/agmn.
