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People represent their emotions in a myriad of ways. Among the most important ones is whole body expressions which have many applications in different fields such as human-computer interaction (HCI). One of the most important challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Peyman Tahghighi , Abbas Koochari , Masoume Jalali

Hands are central to interacting with our surroundings and conveying gestures, making their inclusion essential for full-body motion synthesis. Despite this, existing human motion synthesis methods fall short: some ignore hand motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Enes Duran , Nikos Athanasiou , Muhammed Kocabas , Michael J. Black , Omid Taheri

Estimating 3D hand pose from single RGB images is a highly ambiguous problem that relies on an unbiased training dataset. In this paper, we analyze cross-dataset generalization when training on existing datasets. We find that approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Christian Zimmermann , Duygu Ceylan , Jimei Yang , Bryan Russell , Max Argus , Thomas Brox

Across a plethora of social situations, we touch others in natural and intuitive ways to share thoughts and emotions, such as tapping to get one's attention or caressing to soothe one's anxiety. A deeper understanding of these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shan Xu , Chang Xu , Sarah McIntyre , Håkan Olausson , Gregory J. Gerling

Motion imitation is a pivotal and effective approach for humanoid robots to achieve a more diverse range of complex and expressive movements, making their performances more human-like. However, the significant differences in kinematics and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zhenghan Chen , Haodong Zhang , Dongqi Wang , Jiyu Yu , Haocheng Xu , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

We introduce a novel task of reconstructing a time series of second-person 3D human body meshes from monocular egocentric videos. The unique viewpoint and rapid embodied camera motion of egocentric videos raise additional technical barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Miao Liu , Dexin Yang , Yan Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui , James M. Rehg , Siyu Tang

Creating animatable avatars from static scans requires the modeling of clothing deformations in different poses. Existing learning-based methods typically add pose-dependent deformations upon a minimally-clothed mesh template or a learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hongwen Zhang , Siyou Lin , Ruizhi Shao , Yuxiang Zhang , Zerong Zheng , Han Huang , Yandong Guo , Yebin Liu

Manipulating objects with robotic hands is a complicated task. Not only the fingers of the hand, but also the pose of the robot's end effector need to be coordinated. Using human demonstrations of movements is an intuitive and…

Accurate 3D shape abstraction from a single 2D image is a long-standing problem in computer vision and graphics. By leveraging a set of primitives to represent the target shape, recent methods have achieved promising results. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Di Liu , Xiang Yu , Meng Ye , Qilong Zhangli , Zhuowei Li , Zhixing Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

This paper aims at one newly raising task in vision and multimedia research: recognizing human actions from still images. Its main challenges lie in the large variations in human poses and appearances, as well as the lack of temporal motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Zhujin Liang , Xiaolong Wang , Rui Huang , Liang Lin

We present a novel approach for hand-object action recognition that leverages 2D point tracks as an additional motion cue. While most existing methods rely on RGB appearance, human pose estimation, or their combination, our work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Dennis Holzmann , Sven Wachsmuth

Deep generative models have been recently extended to synthesizing 3D digital humans. However, previous approaches treat clothed humans as a single chunk of geometry without considering the compositionality of clothing and accessories. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Taeksoo Kim , Shunsuke Saito , Hanbyul Joo

Human motion prediction aims to forecast future human poses given a prior pose sequence. The discontinuity of the predicted motion and the performance deterioration in long-term horizons are still the main challenges encountered in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Baptiste Chopin , Naima Otberdout , Mohamed Daoudi , Angela Bartolo

The task of shape abstraction with semantic part consistency is challenging due to the complex geometries of natural objects. Recent methods learn to represent an object shape using a set of simple primitives to fit the target.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Di Liu , Long Zhao , Qilong Zhangli , Yunhe Gao , Ting Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Styled motion in-betweening is crucial for computer animation and gaming. However, existing methods typically encode motion styles by modeling whole-body motions, often overlooking the representation of individual body parts. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Minyue Dai , Ke Fan , Bin Ji , Haoran Xu , Haoyu Zhao , Junting Dong , Jingbo Wang , Bo Dai

Three-dimensional Morphable Models (3DMMs) are powerful statistical tools for representing the 3D shapes and textures of an object class. Here we present the most complete 3DMM of the human head to date that includes face, cranium, ears,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Stylianos Ploumpis , Evangelos Ververas , Eimear O' Sullivan , Stylianos Moschoglou , Haoyang Wang , Nick Pears , William A. P. Smith , Baris Gecer , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

Accurate whole-body multi-person pose estimation and tracking is an important yet challenging topic in computer vision. To capture the subtle actions of humans for complex behavior analysis, whole-body pose estimation including the face,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hao-Shu Fang , Jiefeng Li , Hongyang Tang , Chao Xu , Haoyi Zhu , Yuliang Xiu , Yong-Lu Li , Cewu Lu

We propose Neural Deformable Fields (NDF), a new representation for dynamic human digitization from a multi-view video. Recent works proposed to represent a dynamic human body with shared canonical neural radiance fields which links to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ruiqi Zhang , Jie Chen

We propose a novel framework for multi-person 3D motion trajectory prediction. Our key observation is that a human's action and behaviors may highly depend on the other persons around. Thus, instead of predicting each human pose trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Jiashun Wang , Huazhe Xu , Medhini Narasimhan , Xiaolong Wang