Tree-structured models have been widely used for human pose estimation, in either 2D or 3D. While such models allow efficient
learning and inference, they fail to capture additional dependencies between body parts, other than kinematic constraints.
In this paper, we consider the use of multiple tree models, rather than a single tree model for human pose estimation. Our
model can alleviate the limitations of a single tree-structured model by combining information provided across different tree
models. The parameters of each individual tree model are trained via standard learning algorithms in a single tree-structured
model. Different tree models are combined in a discriminative fashion by a boosting procedure. We present experimental results
showing the improvement of our model over previous approaches on a very challenging dataset.