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Human actions in videos are 3D signals. However, there are a few methods available for multiple human action recognition. For long videos, it's difficult to search within a video for a specific action and/or person. For that, this paper…

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We consider the problem of image-to-video translation, where an input image is translated into an output video containing motions of a single object. Recent methods for such problems typically train transformation networks to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Long Zhao , Xi Peng , Yu Tian , Mubbasir Kapadia , Dimitris Metaxas

Despite many advances in deep-learning based semantic segmentation, performance drop due to distribution mismatch is often encountered in the real world. Recently, a few domain adaptation and active learning approaches have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yu-Ting Chen , Wen-Yen Chang , Hai-Lun Lu , Tingfan Wu , Min Sun

The appearance of a human in clothing is driven not only by the pose but also by its temporal context, i.e., motion. However, such context has been largely neglected by existing monocular human modeling methods whose neural networks often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Hansol Lee , Junuk Cha , Yunhoe Ku , Jae Shin Yoon , Seungryul Baek

Inferring 3D human pose from 2D images is a challenging and long-standing problem in the field of computer vision with many applications including motion capture, virtual reality, surveillance or gait analysis for sports and medicine. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Luca Schmidtke , Benjamin Hou , Athanasios Vlontzos , Bernhard Kainz

Human motion prediction and understanding is a challenging problem. Due to the complex dynamic of human motion and the non-deterministic aspect of future prediction. We propose a novel sequence-to-sequence model for human motion prediction…

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Visual repetition is ubiquitous in our world. It appears in human activity (sports, cooking), animal behavior (a bee's waggle dance), natural phenomena (leaves in the wind) and in urban environments (flashing lights). Estimating visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Tom F. H. Runia , Cees G. M. Snoek , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

3D human pose estimation captures the human joint points in three-dimensional space while keeping the depth information and physical structure. That is essential for applications that require precise pose information, such as human-computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jianbin Jiao , Xina Cheng , Weijie Chen , Xiaoting Yin , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang

This letter presents a novel approach to extract reliable dense and long-range motion trajectories of articulated human in a video sequence. Compared with existing approaches that emphasize temporal consistency of each tracked point, we…

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We consider the problem of estimating frame-level full human body meshes given a video of a person with natural motion dynamics. While much progress in this field has been in single image-based mesh estimation, there has been a recent…

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Recent progress in video diffusion models has markedly advanced character animation, which synthesizes motioned videos by animating a static identity image according to a driving video. Explicit methods represent motion using skeleton,…

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The estimation of 3D human motion from video has progressed rapidly but current methods still have several key limitations. First, most methods estimate the human in camera coordinates. Second, prior work on estimating humans in global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Soyong Shin , Juyong Kim , Eni Halilaj , Michael J. Black

Action recognition is a relatively established task, where givenan input sequence of human motion, the goal is to predict its ac-tion category. This paper, on the other hand, considers a relativelynew problem, which could be thought of as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Chuan Guo , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Shihao Zou , Qingyao Sun , Annan Deng , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

In multi-view human body capture systems, the recovered 3D geometry or even the acquired imagery data can be heavily corrupted due to occlusions, noise, limited field of- view, etc. Direct estimation of 3D pose, body shape or motion on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Zhong Li , Yu Ji , Wei Yang , Jinwei Ye , Jingyi Yu

Although the estimation of 3D human pose and shape (HPS) is rapidly progressing, current methods still cannot reliably estimate moving humans in global coordinates, which is critical for many applications. This is particularly challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yu Sun , Qian Bao , Wu Liu , Tao Mei , Michael J. Black

Generating realistic human videos remains a challenging task, with the most effective methods currently relying on a human motion sequence as a control signal. Existing approaches often use existing motion extracted from other videos, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yang Zhou , Jui-Hsien Wang , Difan Liu , Feng Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhan Xu

Recovering world-coordinate human motion from monocular videos with humanoid robot retargeting is significant for embodied intelligence and robotics. To avoid complex SLAM pipelines or heavy temporal models, we propose a lightweight,…

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We study the problem of directly deriving an initial human reenactment from a monocular video of a non-human character. Our goal is not to reconstruct the source character itself but to reinterpret its motion as a plausible and editable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Liuhan Chen , Lei Zhong , Jiewei Wang , Qin Shuai , Li Yuan , Leidong Fan , Qing Li , Kanglin Liu

Learning robot control policies from human videos is a promising direction for scaling up robot learning. However, how to extract action knowledge (or action representations) from videos for policy learning remains a key challenge. Existing…

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