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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 MovePose, an optimized lightweight convolutional neural network designed specifically for real-time body pose estimation on CPU-based mobile devices. The current solutions do not provide satisfactory accuracy and speed for human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Dongyang Yu , Haoyue Zhang , Ruisheng Zhao , Guoqi Chen , Wangpeng An , Yanhong Yang

Egocentric cameras are becoming increasingly popular and provide us with large amounts of videos, captured from the first person perspective. At the same time, surveillance cameras and drones offer an abundance of visual information, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Shervin Ardeshir , Ali Borji

This work aims to discuss the current landscape of kinematic analysis tools, ranging from the state-of-the-art in sports biomechanics such as inertial measurement units (IMUs) and retroreflective marker-based optical motion capture (MoCap)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Kai Armstrong , Alexander Rodrigues , Alexander P. Willmott , Lei Zhang , Xujiong Ye

3D human pose estimation is a key enabling technology for applications such as healthcare monitoring, human-robot collaboration, and immersive gaming, but real-world deployment remains challenged by viewpoint variations. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yejia Liu , Hengle Jiang , Haoxian Liu , Runxi Huang , Xiaomin Ouyang

The pursuit of accurate 3D hand pose estimation stands as a keystone for understanding human activity in the realm of egocentric vision. The majority of existing estimation methods still rely on single-view images as input, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ruicong Liu , Takehiko Ohkawa , Mingfang Zhang , Yoichi Sato

Monocular 3D pose estimation is a promising, flexible alternative to costly motion capture systems for sports analysis. However, its practical application is hindered by two factors: a lack of realistic sports datasets and unclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Tomohiro Suzuki , Ryota Tanaka , Calvin Yeung , Keisuke Fujii

We propose a CNN-based approach for multi-camera markerless motion capture of the human body. Unlike existing methods that first perform pose estimation on individual cameras and generate 3D models as post-processing, our approach makes use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Denis Tome , Matteo Toso , Lourdes Agapito , Chris Russell

Egocentric videos present unique challenges for 3D scene understanding due to rapid camera motion, frequent object occlusions, and limited object visibility. This paper introduces a novel approach to instance segmentation and tracking in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yash Bhalgat , Vadim Tschernezki , Iro Laina , João F. Henriques , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Using an ego-centric camera to do localization and tracking is highly needed for urban navigation and indoor assistive system when GPS is not available or not accurate enough. The traditional hand-designed feature tracking and estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Liang Yang , Hao Jiang , Jizhong Xiao , Zhouyuan Huo

Capturing a 3D human body is one of the important tasks in computer vision with a wide range of applications such as virtual reality and sports analysis. However, conventional frame cameras are limited by their temporal resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Kai Kohyama , Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Touch contact and pressure are essential for understanding how humans interact with and manipulate objects, insights which can significantly benefit applications in mixed reality and robotics. However, estimating these interactions from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yiming Zhao , Taein Kwon , Paul Streli , Marc Pollefeys , Christian Holz

We present the first approach to volumetric performance capture and novel-view rendering at real-time speed from monocular video, eliminating the need for expensive multi-view systems or cumbersome pre-acquisition of a personalized template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Ruilong Li , Yuliang Xiu , Shunsuke Saito , Zeng Huang , Kyle Olszewski , Hao Li

We present an online approach to efficiently and simultaneously detect and track the 2D pose of multiple people in a video sequence. We build upon Part Affinity Field (PAF) representation designed for static images, and propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Yaadhav Raaj , Haroon Idrees , Gines Hidalgo , Yaser Sheikh

Compared with visual signals, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) placed on human limbs can capture accurate motion signals while being robust to lighting variation and occlusion. While these characteristics are intuitively valuable to help…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Mingfang Zhang , Yifei Huang , Ruicong Liu , Yoichi Sato

Accurate distance estimation is a fundamental challenge in robotic perception, particularly in omnidirectional imaging, where traditional geometric methods struggle with lens distortions and environmental variability. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yitong Quan , Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

Egocentric videos present unique challenges for 3D reconstruction due to rapid camera motion and frequent dynamic interactions. State-of-the-art static reconstruction systems, such as MapAnything, often degrade in these settings, suffering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Qifei Cui , Patrick Chen

Marker-less monocular 3D human motion capture (MoCap) with scene interactions is a challenging research topic relevant for extended reality, robotics and virtual avatar generation. Due to the inherent depth ambiguity of monocular settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Soshi Shimada , Vladislav Golyanik , Zhi Li , Patrick Pérez , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt

New 3+1D high-resolution radar sensors are gaining importance for 3D object detection in the automotive domain due to their relative affordability and improved detection compared to classic low-resolution radar sensors. One limitation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Patrick Palmer , Martin Krueger , Richard Altendorfer , Torsten Bertram

We present EgoExo-Fitness, a new full-body action understanding dataset, featuring fitness sequence videos recorded from synchronized egocentric and fixed exocentric (third-person) cameras. Compared with existing full-body action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yuan-Ming Li , Wei-Jin Huang , An-Lan Wang , Ling-An Zeng , Jing-Ke Meng , Wei-Shi Zheng