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This paper proposes the use of an end-to-end Convolutional Neural Network for direct reconstruction of the 3D geometry of humans via volumetric regression. The proposed method does not require the fitting of a shape model and can be trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Aaron S. Jackson , Chris Manafas , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

We aim to simultaneously estimate the 3D articulated pose and high fidelity volumetric occupancy of human performance, from multiple viewpoint video (MVV) with as few as two views. We use a multi-channel symmetric 3D convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Andrew Gilbert , Matthew Trumble , Adrian Hilton , John Collomosse

In this paper, we introduce a method to automatically reconstruct the 3D motion of a person interacting with an object from a single RGB video. Our method estimates the 3D poses of the person together with the object pose, the contact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Zongmian Li , Jiri Sedlar , Justin Carpentier , Ivan Laptev , Nicolas Mansard , Josef Sivic

Constructing and animating humans is an important component for building virtual worlds in a wide variety of applications such as virtual reality or robotics testing in simulation. As there are exponentially many variations of humans with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ze Yang , Shenlong Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Zeng Huang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Xinchen Yan , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

In this work, we consider the problem of estimating the 3D position of multiple humans in a scene as well as their body shape and articulation from a single RGB video recorded with a static camera. In contrast to expensive marker-based or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Diogo Luvizon , Marc Habermann , Vladislav Golyanik , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt

This paper describes how to obtain accurate 3D body models and texture of arbitrary people from a single, monocular video in which a person is moving. Based on a parametric body model, we present a robust processing pipeline achieving 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Thiemo Alldieck , Marcus Magnor , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt , Gerard Pons-Moll

In this paper, we introduce a method to automatically reconstruct the 3D motion of a person interacting with an object from a single RGB video. Our method estimates the 3D poses of the person and the object, contact positions, and forces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Zongmian Li , Jiri Sedlar , Justin Carpentier , Ivan Laptev , Nicolas Mansard , Josef Sivic

Existing deep models predict 2D and 3D kinematic poses from video that are approximately accurate, but contain visible errors that violate physical constraints, such as feet penetrating the ground and bodies leaning at extreme angles. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Davis Rempe , Leonidas J. Guibas , Aaron Hertzmann , Bryan Russell , Ruben Villegas , Jimei Yang

We present the first marker-less approach for temporally coherent 3D performance capture of a human with general clothing from monocular video. Our approach reconstructs articulated human skeleton motion as well as medium-scale non-rigid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Weipeng Xu , Avishek Chatterjee , Michael Zollhöfer , Helge Rhodin , Dushyant Mehta , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

We focus on the task of estimating a physically plausible articulated human motion from monocular video. Existing approaches that do not consider physics often produce temporally inconsistent output with motion artifacts, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Erik Gärtner , Mykhaylo Andriluka , Hongyi Xu , Cristian Sminchisescu

We present a new trainable system for physically plausible markerless 3D human motion capture, which achieves state-of-the-art results in a broad range of challenging scenarios. Unlike most neural methods for human motion capture, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Soshi Shimada , Vladislav Golyanik , Weipeng Xu , Patrick Pérez , Christian Theobalt

In this paper we present a new approach for marker less human motion capture from conventional camera feeds. The aim of our study is to recover 3D positions of key points of the body that can serve for gait analysis. Our approach is based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jamal Saboune , François Charpillet

Commonly used human motion capture systems require intrusive attachment of markers that are visually tracked with multiple cameras. In this work we present an efficient and inexpensive solution to markerless motion capture using only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Alireza Shafaei , James J. Little

Human shape estimation is an important task for video editing, animation and fashion industry. Predicting 3D human body shape from natural images, however, is highly challenging due to factors such as variation in human bodies, clothing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Gül Varol , Duygu Ceylan , Bryan Russell , Jimei Yang , Ersin Yumer , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

We propose a new method for learning a generalized animatable neural human representation from a sparse set of multi-view imagery of multiple persons. The learned representation can be used to synthesize novel view images of an arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yiming Wang , Qingzhe Gao , Libin Liu , Lingjie Liu , Christian Theobalt , Baoquan Chen

We present Better Together, a method that simultaneously solves the human pose estimation problem while reconstructing a photorealistic 3D human avatar from multi-view videos. While prior art usually solves these problems separately, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Arthur Moreau , Mohammed Brahimi , Richard Shaw , Athanasios Papaioannou , Thomas Tanay , Zhensong Zhang , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

We propose a method for incorporating object interaction and human body dynamics into the task of 3D ego-pose estimation using a head-mounted camera. We use a kinematics model of the human body to represent the entire range of human motion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Zhengyi Luo , Ryo Hachiuma , Ye Yuan , Shun Iwase , Kris M. Kitani

Estimating the body shape and posture of a dressed human subject in motion represented as a sequence of (possibly incomplete) 3D meshes is important for virtual change rooms and security. To solve this problem, statistical shape spaces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Stefanie Wuhrer , Leonid Pishchulin , Alan Brunton , Chang Shu , Jochen Lang

3D animation of humans in action is quite challenging as it involves using a huge setup with several motion trackers all over the person's body to track the movements of every limb. This is time-consuming and may cause the person discomfort…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Laxman Kumarapu , Prerana Mukherjee

Volumetric (4D) performance capture is fundamental for AR/VR content generation. Whereas previous work in 4D performance capture has shown impressive results in studio settings, the technology is still far from being accessible to a typical…