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We propose a novel hybrid calibration-free method FreeCap to accurately capture global multi-person motions in open environments. Our system combines a single LiDAR with expandable moving cameras, allowing for flexible and precise motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aoru Xue , Yiming Ren , Zining Song , Mao Ye , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma

Tracking 3D human motion from egocentric multi-camera headset is challenged by severe egomotion, partial visibility or occlusions and lack of training data. Existing methods designed for monocular video often require static or slowly-moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Nan Yang , Julian Straub , Fan Zhang , Richard Newcombe , Jakob Engel , Lingni Ma

Marker-based motion capture (MoCap) systems have long been the gold standard for accurate 4D human modeling, yet their reliance on specialized hardware and markers limits scalability and real-world deployment. Advancing reliable markerless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yeeun Park , Miqdad Naduthodi , Suryansh Kumar

Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress in the 3D reconstruction of dynamic humans from a monocular video with the advent of neural rendering techniques. This task has a wide range of applications, including the creation of virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Kanghao Chen , Zeyu Wang , Lin Wang

The accuracy of monocular 3D human pose estimation depends on the viewpoint from which the image is captured. While freely moving cameras, such as on drones, provide control over this viewpoint, automatically positioning them at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Sena Kiciroglu , Helge Rhodin , Sudipta N. Sinha , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

We introduce MulayCap, a novel human performance capture method using a monocular video camera without the need for pre-scanning. The method uses "multi-layer" representations for geometry reconstruction and texture rendering, respectively.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Zhaoqi Su , Weilin Wan , Tao Yu , Lingjie Liu , Lu Fang , Wenping Wang , Yebin Liu

Temporal 3D human pose estimation from monocular videos is a challenging task in human-centered computer vision due to the depth ambiguity of 2D-to-3D lifting. To improve accuracy and address occlusion issues, inertial sensor has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yiming Bao , Xu Zhao , Dahong Qian

Learning to capture human motion is essential to 3D human pose and shape estimation from monocular video. However, the existing methods mainly rely on recurrent or convolutional operation to model such temporal information, which limits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Wen-Li Wei , Jen-Chun Lin , Tyng-Luh Liu , Hong-Yuan Mark Liao

Monocular egocentric 3D human motion capture is a challenging and actively researched problem. Existing methods use synchronously operating visual sensors (e.g. RGB cameras) and often fail under low lighting and fast motions, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Christen Millerdurai , Hiroyasu Akada , Jian Wang , Diogo Luvizon , Christian Theobalt , Vladislav Golyanik

This paper proposes a new method for live free-viewpoint human performance capture with dynamic details (e.g., cloth wrinkles) using a single RGBD camera. Our main contributions are: (i) a multi-layer representation of garments and body,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Tao Yu , Zerong Zheng , Yuan Zhong , Jianhui Zhao , Qionghai Dai , Gerard Pons-Moll , Yebin Liu

Combining sparse IMUs and a monocular camera is a new promising setting to perform real-time human motion capture. This paper proposes a diffusion-based solution to learn human motion priors and fuse the two modalities of signals together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Shaohua Pan , Xinyu Yi , Yan Zhou , Weihua Jian , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Feng Xu

Capturing the interactions between humans and their environment in 3D is important for many applications in robotics, graphics, and vision. Recent works to reconstruct the 3D human and object from a single RGB image do not have consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xianghui Xie , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll

We present the first real-time method to capture the full global 3D skeletal pose of a human in a stable, temporally consistent manner using a single RGB camera. Our method combines a new convolutional neural network (CNN) based pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Dushyant Mehta , Srinath Sridhar , Oleksandr Sotnychenko , Helge Rhodin , Mohammad Shafiei , Hans-Peter Seidel , Weipeng Xu , Dan Casas , Christian Theobalt

We describe an end-to-end method for recovering 3D human body mesh from single images and monocular videos. Different from the existing methods try to obtain all the complex 3D pose, shape, and camera parameters from one coupling feature,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Sun Yu , Ye Yun , Liu Wu , Gao Wenpeng , Fu YiLi , Mei Tao

A long-standing challenge in scene analysis is the recovery of scene arrangements under moderate to heavy occlusion, directly from monocular video. While the problem remains a subject of active research, concurrent advances have been made…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Aron Monszpart , Paul Guerrero , Duygu Ceylan , Ersin Yumer , Niloy J. Mitra

Monocular dynamic reconstruction is a challenging and long-standing vision problem due to the highly ill-posed nature of the task. Existing approaches depend on templates, are effective only in quasi-static scenes, or fail to model 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Qianqian Wang , Vickie Ye , Hang Gao , Weijia Zeng , Jake Austin , Zhengqi Li , Angjoo Kanazawa

Human action recognition is regarded as a key cornerstone in domains such as surveillance or video understanding. Despite recent progress in the development of end-to-end solutions for video-based action recognition, achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jiawei Chen , Jenson Hsiao , Chiu Man Ho

We present a unified perspective on tackling various human-centric video tasks by learning human motion representations from large-scale and heterogeneous data resources. Specifically, we propose a pretraining stage in which a motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Zhaoyang Liu , Libin Liu , Wayne Wu , Yizhou Wang

Current state-of-the-art solutions for motion capture from a single camera are optimization driven: they optimize the parameters of a 3D human model so that its re-projection matches measurements in the video (e.g. person segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung , Hsiao-Wei Tung , Ersin Yumer , Katerina Fragkiadaki

In this work, we consider the problem of estimating the 3D position of multiple humans in a scene as well as their body shape and articulation from a single RGB video recorded with a static camera. In contrast to expensive marker-based or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Diogo Luvizon , Marc Habermann , Vladislav Golyanik , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt