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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

Human pose estimation from image and video is a vital task in many multimedia applications. Previous methods achieve great performance but rarely take efficiency into consideration, which makes it difficult to implement the networks on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Wenqiang Zhang , Jiemin Fang , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu

3D human pose estimation (HPE) is crucial in many fields, such as human behavior analysis, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) applications, and self-driving industry. Videos that contain multiple potentially occluded people captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Renshu Gu , Gaoang Wang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

In this paper, we propose a novel graph convolutional network architecture, Graph Stacked Hourglass Networks, for 2D-to-3D human pose estimation tasks. The proposed architecture consists of repeated encoder-decoder, in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Tianhan Xu , Wataru Takano

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

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) involves detecting and localizing keypoints on the human body from visual data. In 3D HPE, occlusions, where parts of the body are not visible in the image, pose a significant challenge for accurate pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Filipa Lino , Carlos Santiago , Manuel Marques

3D human pose estimation errors would propagate along the human body topology and accumulate at the end joints of limbs. Inspired by the backtracking mechanism in automatic control systems, we design an Intra-Part Constraint module that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jialun Cai , Hong Liu , Runwei Ding , Wenhao Li , Jianbing Wu , Miaoju Ban

In this paper we introduce a novel method to estimate the head pose of people in single images starting from a small set of head keypoints. To this purpose, we propose a regression model that exploits keypoints computed automatically by 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Giorgio Cantarini , Federico Figari Tomenotti , Nicoletta Noceti , Francesca Odone

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

3D human pose and shape estimation (HPE) aims to reconstruct the 3D human body, face, and hands from a single image. Although powerful deep learning models have achieved accurate estimation in this task, they require enormous memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zhiteng Li , Yulun Zhang , Jing Lin , Haotong Qin , Jinjin Gu , Xin Yuan , Linghe Kong , Xiaokang Yang

We propose a method for human pose estimation based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The pose estimation is formulated as a DNN-based regression problem towards body joints. We present a cascade of such DNN regressors which results in high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Alexander Toshev , Christian Szegedy

Human pose estimation (HPE) usually requires large-scale training data to reach high performance. However, it is rather time-consuming to collect high-quality and fine-grained annotations for human body. To alleviate this issue, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Xixia Xu , Yingguo Gao , Ke Yan , Xue Lin , Qi Zou

Estimating 3D from 2D is one of the central tasks in computer vision. In this work, we consider the monocular setting, i.e. single-view input, for 3D human pose estimation (HPE). Here, the task is to predict a 3D point set of human skeletal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pavlo Melnyk , Cuong Le , Urs Waldmann , Per-Erik Forssén , Bastian Wandt

At present, most high-accuracy single-person pose estimation methods have high computational complexity and insufficient real-time performance due to the complex structure of the network model. However, a single-person pose estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Gang Peng , Yuezhi Zheng , Jianfeng Li , Jin Yang , Zhonghua Deng

3D human pose estimation (HPE) is characterized by intricate local and global dependencies among joints. Conventional supervised losses are limited in capturing these correlations because they treat each joint independently. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yeonsung Kim , Junggeun Do , Seunguk Do , Sangmin Kim , Jaesik Park , Jay-Yoon Lee

In this paper, we address the problem of estimating the positions of human joints, i.e., articulated pose estimation. Recent state-of-the-art solutions model two key issues, joint detection and spatial configuration refinement, together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Ke Sun , Cuiling Lan , Junliang Xing , Wenjun Zeng , Dong Liu , Jingdong Wang

Bottom-up human pose estimation methods have difficulties in predicting the correct pose for small persons due to challenges in scale variation. In this paper, we present HigherHRNet: a novel bottom-up human pose estimation method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Bowen Cheng , Bin Xiao , Jingdong Wang , Honghui Shi , Thomas S. Huang , Lei Zhang

3D hand pose estimation has garnered great attention in recent years due to its critical applications in human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and related fields. The accurate estimation of hand joints is essential for high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Bolun Zheng , Xinjie Liu , Qianyu Zhang , Canjin Wang , Fangni Chen , Mingen Xu

Video-based human pose estimation (VHPE) is a vital yet challenging task. While deep learning methods have made significant progress for the VHPE, most approaches to this task implicitly model the long-range interaction between joints by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yonghao Dang , Jianqin Yin , Shaojie Zhang

The goal of 2D human pose estimation (HPE) is to localize anatomical landmarks, given an image of a person in a pose. SOTA techniques make use of thousands of labeled figures (finetuning transformers or training deep CNNs), acquired using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Nobline Yoo , Olga Russakovsky