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Human pose estimation aims at localizing human anatomical keypoints or body parts in the input data (e.g., images, videos, or signals). It forms a crucial component in enabling machines to have an insightful understanding of the behaviors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Haoming Chen , Runyang Feng , Sifan Wu , Hao Xu , Fengcheng Zhou , Zhenguang Liu

Both the tasks of multi-person human pose estimation and pose tracking in videos are quite challenging. Existing methods can be categorized into two groups: top-down and bottom-up approaches. In this paper, following the top-down approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Guanghan Ning , Ping Liu , Xiaochuan Fan , Chi Zhang

Human pose estimation in complicated situations has always been a challenging task. Many Transformer-based pose networks have been proposed recently, achieving encouraging progress in improving performance. However, the remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Chengpeng Wu , Guangxing Tan , Chunyu Li

Human pose estimation aims to locate the human body parts and build human body representation (e.g., body skeleton) from input data such as images and videos. It has drawn increasing attention during the past decade and has been utilized in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ce Zheng , Wenhan Wu , Chen Chen , Taojiannan Yang , Sijie Zhu , Ju Shen , Nasser Kehtarnavaz , Mubarak Shah

The existing human pose estimation methods are confronted with inaccurate long-distance regression or high computational cost due to the complex learning objectives. This work proposes a novel deep learning framework for human pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 ZiFan Chen , Xin Qin , Chao Yang , Li Zhang

In this paper, a real-time method called PoP-Net is proposed to predict multi-person 3D poses from a depth image. PoP-Net learns to predict bottom-up part representations and top-down global poses in a single shot. Specifically, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yuliang Guo , Zhong Li , Zekun Li , Xiangyu Du , Shuxue Quan , Yi Xu

We develop a robust multi-scale structure-aware neural network for human pose estimation. This method improves the recent deep conv-deconv hourglass models with four key improvements: (1) multi-scale supervision to strengthen contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Lipeng Ke , Ming-Ching Chang , Honggang Qi , Siwei Lyu

Estimating a 3D human pose has proven to be a challenging task, primarily because of the complexity of the human body joints, occlusions, and variability in lighting conditions. In this paper, we introduce a higher-order graph convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jianning Quan , A. Ben Hamza

3D human pose and shape estimation from monocular images has been an active research area in computer vision. Existing deep learning methods for this task rely on high-resolution input, which however, is not always available in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Xiangyu Xu , Hao Chen , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Laszlo A. Jeni , Fernando De la Torre

Most 2D human pose estimation frameworks estimate keypoint confidence in an ad-hoc manner, using heuristics such as the maximum value of heatmaps. The confidence is part of the evaluation scheme, e.g., AP for the MSCOCO dataset, yet has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Kerui Gu , Rongyu Chen , Angela Yao

Multi-person pose estimation in images and videos is an important yet challenging task with many applications. Despite the large improvements in human pose estimation enabled by the development of convolutional neural networks, there still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mihai Fieraru , Anna Khoreva , Leonid Pishchulin , Bernt Schiele

Marker-free human pose estimation (HPE) has found increasing applications in various fields. Current HPE suffers from occasional errors in keypoint recognition and random fluctuation in keypoint trajectories when analyzing kinematic human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chang Peng , Yifei Zhou , Huifeng Xi , Shiqing Huang , Chuangye Chen , Jianming Yang , Bao Yang , Zhenyu Jiang

This is an official pytorch implementation of Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimation. In this work, we are interested in the human pose estimation problem with a focus on learning reliable high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ke Sun , Bin Xiao , Dong Liu , Jingdong Wang

The task of human pose estimation (HPE) deals with the ill-posed problem of estimating the 3D position of human joints directly from images and videos. In recent literature, most of the works tackle the problem mostly by using convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Nicola Garau , Nicola Conci

Monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE) often encounters challenges such as depth ambiguity and occlusion during the 2D-to-3D lifting process. Additionally, traditional methods may overlook multi-scale skeleton features when utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bing Han , Yuhua Huang , Pan Gao

Recently, a significant improvement in the accuracy of 3D human pose estimation has been achieved by combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with pyramid grid alignment feedback loops. Additionally, innovative breakthroughs have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zongyou Yang , Jonathan Loo , Yinghan Hou

Human pose estimation (HPE) with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for indoor monitoring is one of the major challenges in computer vision. In contrast to HPE in perspective views, an indoor monitoring system can consist of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jingrui Yu , Tobias Scheck , Roman Seidel , Yukti Adya , Dipankar Nandi , Gangolf Hirtz

Like many computer vision problems, human pose estimation is a challenging problem in that recognizing a body part requires not only information from local area but also from areas with large spatial distance. In order to spatially pass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Te Qi , Bayram Bayramli , Usman Ali , Qinchuan Zhang , Hongtao Lu

The recent success of deep networks has significantly advanced 3D human pose estimation from 2D images. The diversity of capturing viewpoints and the flexibility of the human poses, however, remain some significant challenges. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Guoqiang Wei , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Zhibo Chen

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) plays a crucial role in computer vision applications. However, it is difficult to deploy state-of-the-art models on resouce-limited devices due to the high computational costs of the networks. In this work, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Zhicheng Zhang , Xueyao Sun , Yonghao Dang , Jianqin Yin