  This paper presents a deep learning based approach to the problem of human
pose estimation. We employ generative adversarial networks as our learning
paradigm in which we set up two stacked hourglass networks with the same
architecture, one as the generator and the other as the discriminator. The
generator is used as a human pose estimator after the training is done. The
discriminator distinguishes ground-truth heatmaps from generated ones, and
back-propagates the adversarial loss to the generator. This process enables the
generator to learn plausible human body configurations and is shown to be
useful for improving the prediction accuracy.
