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Single-stage multi-person pose estimation aims to jointly perform human localization and keypoint prediction within a unified framework, offering advantages in inference efficiency and architectural simplicity. Consequently, multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Nanjun Li , Pinqi Cheng , Zean Liu , Minghe Tian , Xuanyin Wang

In this paper, we present MultiPoseNet, a novel bottom-up multi-person pose estimation architecture that combines a multi-task model with a novel assignment method. MultiPoseNet can jointly handle person detection, keypoint detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Muhammed Kocabas , Salih Karagoz , Emre Akbas

Current human pose estimation systems focus on retrieving an accurate 3D global estimate of a single person. Therefore, this paper presents one of the first 3D multi-person human pose estimation systems that is able to work in real-time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Pawel Knap , Peter Hardy , Alberto Tamajo , Hwasup Lim , Hansung Kim

In this work, we propose a new method for multi-person pose estimation which combines the traditional bottom-up and the top-down methods. Specifically, we perform the network feed-forwarding in a bottom-up manner, and then parse the poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Miaopeng Li , Zimeng Zhou , Jie Li , Xinguo Liu

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

We propose a simple yet reliable bottom-up approach with a good trade-off between accuracy and efficiency for the problem of multi-person pose estimation. Given an image, we employ an Hourglass Network to infer all the keypoints from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jia Li , Linhua Xiang , Jiwei Chen , Zengfu Wang

This paper studies the task of estimating the 3D human poses of multiple persons from multiple calibrated camera views. Following the top-down paradigm, we decompose the task into two stages, i.e. person localization and pose estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Size Wu , Sheng Jin , Wentao Liu , Lei Bai , Chen Qian , Dong Liu , Wanli Ouyang

In this paper we consider the problem of human pose estimation from a single still image. We propose a novel approach where each location in the image votes for the position of each keypoint using a convolutional neural net. The voting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Ita Lifshitz , Ethan Fetaya , Shimon Ullman

Human pose estimation has given rise to a broad spectrum of novel and compelling applications, including action recognition, sports analysis, as well as surveillance. However, accurate video pose estimation remains an open challenge. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yingying Jiao , Zhigang Wang , Zhenguang Liu , Shaojing Fan , Sifan Wu , Zheqi Wu , Zhuoyue Xu

Human pose estimation - the process of recognizing a human's limb positions and orientations in a video - has many important applications including surveillance, diagnosis of movement disorders, and computer animation. While deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Steven Schwarcz , Thomas Pollard

Video annotation is expensive and time consuming. Consequently, datasets for multi-person pose estimation and tracking are less diverse and have more sparse annotations compared to large scale image datasets for human pose estimation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Umer Rafi , Andreas Doering , Bastian Leibe , Juergen Gall

We present an approach to efficiently detect the 2D pose of multiple people in an image. The approach uses a nonparametric representation, which we refer to as Part Affinity Fields (PAFs), to learn to associate body parts with individuals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Zhe Cao , Tomas Simon , Shih-En Wei , Yaser Sheikh

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

Category-level object pose estimation aims to predict the 6D pose and size of previously unseen instances from predefined categories, requiring strong generalization across diverse object instances. Although many previous methods attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xiao Zhang , Lu Zou , Tao Lu , Yuan Yao , Zhangjin Huang , Guoping Wang

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

We present a fast bottom-up method that jointly detects over 100 keypoints on humans or objects, also referred to as human/object pose estimation. We model all keypoints belonging to a human or an object -- the pose -- as a graph and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Duncan Zauss , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

This paper presents a novel end-to-end framework with Explicit box Detection for multi-person Pose estimation, called ED-Pose, where it unifies the contextual learning between human-level (global) and keypoint-level (local) information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Jie Yang , Ailing Zeng , Shilong Liu , Feng Li , Ruimao Zhang , Lei Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of 3D pose estimation for multiple people in a few calibrated camera views. The main challenge of this problem is to find the cross-view correspondences among noisy and incomplete 2D pose predictions. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Junting Dong , Wen Jiang , Qixing Huang , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

Human affordance learning investigates contextually relevant novel pose prediction such that the estimated pose represents a valid human action within the scene. While the task is fundamental to machine perception and automated interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Subhankar Ghosh , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Bottom-up based multi-person pose estimation approaches use heatmaps with auxiliary predictions to estimate joint positions and belonging at one time. Recently, various combinations between auxiliary predictions and heatmaps have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Haiyang Liu , Dingli Luo , Songlin Du , Takeshi Ikenaga