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With 3D data rapidly emerging as an important form of multimedia information, 3D human mesh recovery technology has also advanced accordingly. However, current methods mainly focus on handling humans wearing tight clothing and perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yunqi Gao , Leyuan Liu , Yuhan Li , Changxin Gao , Yuanyuan Liu , Jingying Chen

Single-image human mesh recovery provides a compact 3D, person-centric representation that supports analysis, animation, AR and VR, rehabilitation, and human-computer interaction. However, prevailing systems impose an intact-limb prior and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jiaying Ying , Heming Du , Kaihao Zhang , Sean M. Tweedy , Xin Yu

This paper presents a novel framework to recover \emph{detailed} avatar from a single image. It is a challenging task due to factors such as variations in human shapes, body poses, texture, and viewpoints. Prior methods typically attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Haotian Yang , Sen Wang , Xun Cao , Ruigang Yang

Human mesh recovery (HMR) from a single RGB image is inherently ambiguous, as multiple 3D poses can correspond to the same 2D observation. Recent diffusion-based methods tackle this by generating various hypotheses, but often sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Wenhao Shen , Hao Wang , Wanqi Yin , Fayao Liu , Xulei Yang , Chao Liang , Zhongang Cai , Guosheng Lin

We present a simple yet effective method for skeleton-free motion retargeting. Previous methods transfer motion between high-resolution meshes, failing to preserve the inherent local-part motions in the mesh. Addressing this issue, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Haoyu Wang , Shaoli Huang , Fang Zhao , Chun Yuan , Ying Shan

Fully supervised human mesh recovery methods are data-hungry and have poor generalizability due to the limited availability and diversity of 3D-annotated benchmark datasets. Recent progress in self-supervised human mesh recovery has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Xuan Gong , Meng Zheng , Benjamin Planche , Srikrishna Karanam , Terrence Chen , David Doermann , Ziyan Wu

Model-based 3D pose and shape estimation methods reconstruct a full 3D mesh for the human body by estimating several parameters. However, learning the abstract parameters is a highly non-linear process and suffers from image-model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jiefeng Li , Chao Xu , Zhicun Chen , Siyuan Bian , Lixin Yang , Cewu Lu

Accurate 3D kinematics estimation of human body is crucial in various applications for human health and mobility, such as rehabilitation, injury prevention, and diagnosis, as it helps to understand the biomechanical loading experienced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zhi-Yi Lin , Bofan Lyu , Judith Cueto Fernandez , Eline van der Kruk , Ajay Seth , Xucong Zhang

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

Monocular 3D human pose estimation poses significant challenges due to the inherent depth ambiguities that arise during the reprojection process from 2D to 3D. Conventional approaches that rely on estimating an over-fit projection matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Junkun Jiang , Jie Chen

We propose a novel ConvNet model for predicting 2D human body poses in an image. The model regresses a heatmap representation for each body keypoint, and is able to learn and represent both the part appearances and the context of the part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Vasileios Belagiannis , Andrew Zisserman

This paper presents a novel method for 3D human pose and shape estimation from images with sparse views, using joint points and silhouettes, based on a parametric model. Firstly, the parametric model is fitted to the joint points estimated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhongguo Li , Anders Heyden , Magnus Oskarsson

Human mesh recovery (HMR) from a single image is inherently ill-posed due to depth ambiguity and occlusions. Probabilistic methods have tried to solve this by generating numerous plausible 3D human mesh predictions, but they often exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Wenhao Shen , Wanqi Yin , Xiaofeng Yang , Cheng Chen , Chaoyue Song , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin

Reconstructing 3D clothed humans from images is fundamental to applications like virtual try-on, avatar creation, and mixed reality. While recent advances have enhanced human body recovery, accurate reconstruction of garment geometry --…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Ren Li , Cong Cao , Corentin Dumery , Yingxuan You , Hao Li , Pascal Fua

Recovering 3D human body shape and pose from 2D images is a challenging task due to high complexity and flexibility of human body, and relatively less 3D labeled data. Previous methods addressing these issues typically rely on predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Pengfei Yao , Zheng Fang , Fan Wu , Yao Feng , Jiwei Li

We present a novel method to improve the accuracy of the 3D reconstruction of clothed human shape from a single image. Recent work has introduced volumetric, implicit and model-based shape learning frameworks for reconstruction of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Akin Caliskan , Armin Mustafa , Evren Imre , Adrian Hilton

We present Score-Guided Human Mesh Recovery (ScoreHMR), an approach for solving inverse problems for 3D human pose and shape reconstruction. These inverse problems involve fitting a human body model to image observations, traditionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Anastasis Stathopoulos , Ligong Han , Dimitris Metaxas

The release of SAM 3D Body is a recent development in human mesh recovery, demonstrating improved performance in producing clean, topologically coherent meshes from single images. By leveraging the Momentum Human Rig (MHR), it achieves…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Aizierjiang Aiersilan , Ruting Cheng , James Hahn

Estimating 3D human pose and shape from a single image is highly under-constrained. To address this ambiguity, we propose a novel prior, namely kinematic dictionary, which explicitly regularizes the solution space of relative 3D rotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ze Ma , Yifan Yao , Pan Ji , Chao Ma

Compared to joint position, the accuracy of joint rotation and shape estimation has received relatively little attention in the skinned multi-person linear model (SMPL)-based human mesh reconstruction from multi-view images. The work in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Sungho Chun , Sungbum Park , Ju Yong Chang