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We propose a novel facial Anchors and Contours Estimation framework, ACE-Net, for fine-level face alignment tasks. ACE-Net predicts facial anchors and contours that are richer than traditional facial landmarks while overcoming ambiguities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jihua Huang , Amir Tamrakar

Person identification is a problem that has received substantial attention, particularly in security domains. Gait recognition is one of the most convenient approaches enabling person identification at a distance without the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Luke K. Topham , Wasiq Khan , Dhiya Al-Jumeily , Abir Hussain

In this paper we propose a technique for obtaining coarse pose estimation of humans in an image that does not require any manual supervision. While a general unsupervised technique would fail to estimate human pose, we suggest that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Prabuddha Chakraborty , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Hand pose estimation plays a vital role in capturing subtle nonverbal cues essential for understanding human affect. However, collecting diverse, expressive real-world data remains challenging due to labor-intensive manual annotation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Masum Hasan , Cengiz Ozel , Nina Long , Alexander Martin , Samuel Potter , Tariq Adnan , Sangwu Lee , Ehsan Hoque

We present BlazePose GHUM Holistic, a lightweight neural network pipeline for 3D human body landmarks and pose estimation, specifically tailored to real-time on-device inference. BlazePose GHUM Holistic enables motion capture from a single…

In this paper, we present Motion-X, a large-scale 3D expressive whole-body motion dataset. Existing motion datasets predominantly contain body-only poses, lacking facial expressions, hand gestures, and fine-grained pose descriptions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jing Lin , Ailing Zeng , Shunlin Lu , Yuanhao Cai , Ruimao Zhang , Haoqian Wang , Lei Zhang

Current methods of multi-person pose estimation typically treat the localization and the association of body joints separately. It is convenient but inefficient, leading to additional computation and a waste of time. This paper, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Chenyu Tian , Ran Yu , Xinyuan Zhao , Weihao Xia , Haoqian Wang , Yujiu Yang

Landmarks often play a key role in face analysis, but many aspects of identity or expression cannot be represented by sparse landmarks alone. Thus, in order to reconstruct faces more accurately, landmarks are often combined with additional…

Estimating 3d human pose from monocular images is a challenging problem due to the variety and complexity of human poses and the inherent ambiguity in recovering depth from the single view. Recent deep learning based methods show promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Sandika Biswas , Sanjana Sinha , Kavya Gupta , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

This paper presents GoPose, a 3D skeleton-based human pose estimation system that uses WiFi devices at home. Our system leverages the WiFi signals reflected off the human body for 3D pose estimation. In contrast to prior systems that need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yili Ren , Jie Yang

Humans take advantage of real world symmetries for various tasks, yet capturing their superb symmetry perception mechanism with a computational model remains elusive. Motivated by a new study demonstrating the extremely high inter-person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Christopher Funk , Yanxi Liu

The topic of multi-person pose estimation has been largely improved recently, especially with the development of convolutional neural network. However, there still exist a lot of challenging cases, such as occluded keypoints, invisible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yilun Chen , Zhicheng Wang , Yuxiang Peng , Zhiqiang Zhang , Gang Yu , Jian Sun

Compared to 2D object bounding-box labeling, it is very difficult for humans to annotate 3D object poses, especially when depth images of scenes are unavailable. This paper investigates whether we can estimate the object poses effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Zongxin Yang , Xin Yu , Yi Yang

We present the first method to capture the 3D total motion of a target person from a monocular view input. Given an image or a monocular video, our method reconstructs the motion from body, face, and fingers represented by a 3D deformable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Donglai Xiang , Hanbyul Joo , Yaser Sheikh

The target of 2D human pose estimation is to locate the keypoints of body parts from input 2D images. State-of-the-art methods for pose estimation usually construct pixel-wise heatmaps from keypoints as labels for learning convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Kun Zhang , Rui Wu , Ping Yao , Kai Deng , Ding Li , Renbiao Liu , Chuanguang Yang , Ge Chen , Min Du , Tianyao Zheng

Estimation of human shape and pose from a single image is a challenging task. It is an even more difficult problem to map the identified human shape onto a 3D human model. Existing methods map manually labelled human pixels in real 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mithun Lal , Anthony Paproki , Nariman Habili , Lars Petersson , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes

We propose a novel efficient and lightweight model for human pose estimation from a single image. Our model is designed to achieve competitive results at a fraction of the number of parameters and computational cost of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Hossam Isack , Christian Haene , Cem Keskin , Sofien Bouaziz , Yuri Boykov , Shahram Izadi , Sameh Khamis

We propose a novel generative approach for 3D human pose estimation. 3D human pose estimation poses several key challenges due to the complex geometry of the human body, self-occluding joints, and the requirement for large-scale real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hyunsoo Lee , Daeum Jeon , Hyeokjae Oh

Human pose and shape (HPS) estimation methods have been extensively studied, with many demonstrating high zero-shot performance on in-the-wild images and videos. However, these methods often struggle in challenging scenarios involving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yash Garg , Saketh Bachu , Arindam Dutta , Rohit Lal , Sarosij Bose , Calvin-Khang Ta , M. Salman Asif , Amit Roy-Chowdhury

The scarcity of comprehensive datasets in surveillance, identification, image retrieval systems, and healthcare poses a significant challenge for researchers in exploring new methodologies and advancing knowledge in these respective fields.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Pronay Debnath , Usafa Akther Rifa , Busra Kamal Rafa , Ali Haider Talukder Akib , Md. Aminur Rahman