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From Frames to Sequences: Temporally Consistent Human-Centric Dense Prediction

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-02-04 v2

Abstract

In this work, we focus on the challenge of temporally consistent human-centric dense prediction across video sequences. Existing models achieve strong per-frame accuracy but often flicker under motion, occlusion, and lighting changes, and they rarely have paired human video supervision for multiple dense tasks. We address this gap with a scalable synthetic data pipeline that generates photorealistic human frames and motion-aligned sequences with pixel-accurate depth, normals, and masks. Unlike prior static data synthetic pipelines, our pipeline provides both frame-level labels for spatial learning and sequence-level supervision for temporal learning. Building on this, we train a unified ViT-based dense predictor that (i) injects an explicit human geometric prior via CSE embeddings and (ii) improves geometry-feature reliability with a lightweight channel reweighting module after feature fusion. Our two-stage training strategy, combining static pretraining with dynamic sequence supervision, enables the model first to acquire robust spatial representations and then refine temporal consistency across motion-aligned sequences. Extensive experiments show that we achieve state-of-the-art performance on THuman2.1 and Hi4D and generalize effectively to in-the-wild videos.

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@article{arxiv.2602.01661,
  title  = {From Frames to Sequences: Temporally Consistent Human-Centric Dense Prediction},
  author = {Xingyu Miao and Junting Dong and Qin Zhao and Yuhang Yang and Junhao Chen and Yang Long},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01661},
  year   = {2026}
}
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