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Whole-body pose and shape estimation aims to jointly predict different behaviors (e.g., pose, hand gesture, facial expression) of the entire human body from a monocular image. Existing methods often exhibit degraded performance under the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Hui EnPang , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Qingyi Tao , Zhonghua Wu , Tianwei Zhang , Ziwei Liu

Identifying and segmenting moving objects from a moving monocular camera is difficult when there is unknown camera motion, different types of object motions and complex scene structures. To tackle these challenges, we take advantage of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yuxiang Huang , John Zelek

We present a Deep Learning based system for the twin tasks of localization and obstacle avoidance essential to any mobile robot. Our system learns from conventional geometric SLAM, and outputs, using a single camera, the topological pose of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Punarjay Chakravarty , Praveen Narayanan , Tom Roussel

In active Visual-SLAM (V-SLAM), a robot relies on the information retrieved by its cameras to control its own movements for autonomous mapping of the environment. Cameras are usually statically linked to the robot's body, limiting the extra…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Elia Bonetto , Pascal Goldschmid , Michael J. Black , Aamir Ahmad

Monocular SLAM has received a lot of attention due to its simple RGB inputs and the lifting of complex sensor constraints. However, existing monocular SLAM systems are designed for bounded scenes, restricting the applicability of SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Heng Zhou , Zhetao Guo , Shuhong Liu , Lechen Zhang , Qihao Wang , Yuxiang Ren , Mingrui Li

We present a real-time monocular dense SLAM system designed bottom-up from MASt3R, a two-view 3D reconstruction and matching prior. Equipped with this strong prior, our system is robust on in-the-wild video sequences despite making no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Riku Murai , Eric Dexheimer , Andrew J. Davison

We present a new paradigm for real-time object-oriented SLAM with a monocular camera. Contrary to previous approaches, that rely on object-level models, we construct category-level models from CAD collections which are now widely available.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Parv Parkhiya , Rishabh Khawad , J. Krishna Murthy , Brojeshwar Bhowmick , K. Madhava Krishna

We introduce a new system for Multi-Session SLAM, which tracks camera motion across multiple disjoint videos under a single global reference. Our approach couples the prediction of optical flow with solver layers to estimate camera pose.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Lahav Lipson , Jia Deng

Reconstructing biomechanically realistic 3D human motion - recovering both kinematics (motion) and kinetics (forces) - is a critical challenge. While marker-based systems are lab-bound and slow, popular monocular methods use oversimplified,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Farnoosh Koleini , Hongfei Xue , Ahmed Helmy , Pu Wang

Remarkable strides have been made in reconstructing static scenes or human bodies from monocular videos. Yet, the two problems have largely been approached independently, without much synergy. Most visual SLAM methods can only reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yizhou Zhao , Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Bhiksha Raj , Min Xu , Jimei Yang , Chun-Hao Paul Huang

Depth estimation is usually ill-posed and ambiguous for monocular camera-based 3D multi-person pose estimation. Since LiDAR can capture accurate depth information in long-range scenes, it can benefit both the global localization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Peishan Cong , Yiteng Xu , Yiming Ren , Juze Zhang , Lan Xu , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Yuexin Ma

Creating a photorealistic scene and human reconstruction from a single monocular in-the-wild video figures prominently in the perception of a human-centric 3D world. Recent neural rendering advances have enabled holistic human-scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Zetong Zhang , Manuel Kaufmann , Lixin Xue , Jie Song , Martin R. Oswald

Although significant progress has been achieved on monocular maker-less human motion capture in recent years, it is still hard for state-of-the-art methods to obtain satisfactory results in occlusion scenarios. There are two main reasons:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Buzhen Huang , Yuan Shu , Jingyi Ju , Yangang Wang

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

We present WildGS-SLAM, a robust and efficient monocular RGB SLAM system designed to handle dynamic environments by leveraging uncertainty-aware geometric mapping. Unlike traditional SLAM systems, which assume static scenes, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jianhao Zheng , Zihan Zhu , Valentin Bieri , Marc Pollefeys , Songyou Peng , Iro Armeni

We introduce a new method that generates photo-realistic humans under novel views and poses given a monocular video as input. Despite the significant progress recently on this topic, with several methods exploring shared canonical neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Tiantian Wang , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Tony Tung

Accurate hand and finger tracking from video has significant clinical applications for monitoring activities of daily living and measuring range of motion, yet monocular video approaches for obtaining hand biomechanics remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 R. James Cotton , Pouyan Firouzabadi , Wendy Murray

Markerless motion capture and understanding of professional non-daily human movements is an important yet unsolved task, which suffers from complex motion patterns and severe self-occlusion, especially for the monocular setting. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Xin Chen , Anqi Pang , Wei Yang , Yuexin Ma , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Accurate estimation of the environment structure simultaneously with the robot pose is a key capability of autonomous robotic vehicles. Classical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms rely on the static world assumption to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Mina Henein , Gerard Kennedy , Viorela Ila , Robert Mahony

Gaussian splatting has recently gained traction as a compelling map representation for SLAM systems, enabling dense and photo-realistic scene modeling. However, its application to monocular SLAM remains challenging due to the lack of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Dong-Uk Seo , Jinwoo Jeon , Eungchang Mason Lee , Hyun Myung