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Accurate transformation estimation between camera space and robot space is essential. Traditional methods using markers for hand-eye calibration require offline image collection, limiting their suitability for online self-calibration.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Tianshu Wu , Jiyao Zhang , Shiqian Liang , Zhengxiao Han , Hao Dong

The 2D heatmap-based approaches have dominated Human Pose Estimation (HPE) for years due to high performance. However, the long-standing quantization error problem in the 2D heatmap-based methods leads to several well-known drawbacks: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yanjie Li , Sen Yang , Peidong Liu , Shoukui Zhang , Yunxiao Wang , Zhicheng Wang , Wankou Yang , Shu-Tao Xia

Transformer-based detectors have advanced small-object detection, but they often remain inefficient and vulnerable to background-induced query noise, which motivates deep decoders to refine low-quality queries. We present HELP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yangchen Zeng , Zhenyu Yu , Dongming Jiang , Wenbo Zhang , Yifan Hong , Zhanhua Hu , Jiao Luo , Kangning Cui

Accurate localization of cephalometric landmarks holds great importance in the fields of orthodontics and orthognathics due to its potential for automating key point labeling. In the context of landmark detection, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Qian Wu , Si Yong Yeo , Yufei Chen , Jun Liu

This paper revisits human-object interaction (HOI) recognition at image level without using supervisions of object location and human pose. We name it detection-free HOI recognition, in contrast to the existing detection-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ying Jin , Yinpeng Chen , Lijuan Wang , Jianfeng Wang , Pei Yu , Zicheng Liu , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Head pose estimation (HPE) plays a critical role in various computer vision applications such as human-computer interaction and facial recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning approach for head pose estimation with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mahdi Ghafourian , Federico M. Sukno

We introduce HYPERPOSE, a novel 3D human pose estimation framework that performs spatio-temporal reasoning entirely within the Lorentz model of hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^d$ to natively preserve the hierarchical tree topology of the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Vinduja Thekkath , Ashish Musale , Ajay Waghumbare , Upasna Singh

Human pose estimation (HPE) is a classical task in computer vision that focuses on representing the orientation of a person by identifying the positions of their joints. We design a lighterversion of the stacked hourglass network with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Jameel Hassan Abdul Samadh , Salwa K. Al Khatib

Like many computer vision problems, human pose estimation is a challenging problem in that recognizing a body part requires not only information from local area but also from areas with large spatial distance. In order to spatially pass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Te Qi , Bayram Bayramli , Usman Ali , Qinchuan Zhang , Hongtao Lu

Human keypoints are a well-studied representation of people.We explore how to use keypoint models to improve instance-level person segmentation. The main idea is to harness the notion of a distance transform of oracle provided keypoints or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Subarna Tripathi , Maxwell Collins , Matthew Brown , Serge Belongie

Multi-person pose estimation (MPPE) estimates keypoints for all individuals present in an image. MPPE is a fundamental task for several applications in computer vision and virtual reality. Unfortunately, there are currently no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Sebastian Janampa , Marios Pattichis

This study presents significant enhancements in human pose estimation using the MediaPipe framework. The research focuses on improving accuracy, computational efficiency, and real-time processing capabilities by comprehensively optimising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Sandeep Singh Sengar , Abhishek Kumar , Owen Singh

We study human pose estimation in extremely low-light images. This task is challenging due to the difficulty of collecting real low-light images with accurate labels, and severely corrupted inputs that degrade prediction quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sohyun Lee , Jaesung Rim , Boseung Jeong , Geonu Kim , Byungju Woo , Haechan Lee , Sunghyun Cho , Suha Kwak

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

We propose a sparse end-to-end multi-person pose regression framework, termed QueryPose, which can directly predict multi-person keypoint sequences from the input image. The existing end-to-end methods rely on dense representations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Yabo Xiao , Kai Su , Xiaojuan Wang , Dongdong Yu , Lei Jin , Mingshu He , Zehuan Yuan

Human pose estimation (HPE) detects the positions of human body joints for various applications. Compared to using cameras, HPE using radio frequency (RF) signals is non-intrusive and more robust to adverse conditions, exploiting the signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Shuokang Huang , Julie A. McCann

In keypoint estimation tasks such as human pose estimation, heatmap-based regression is the dominant approach despite possessing notable drawbacks: heatmaps intrinsically suffer from quantization error and require excessive computation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 William McNally , Kanav Vats , Alexander Wong , John McPhee

Recent research on human pose estimation exploits complex structures to improve performance on benchmark datasets, ignoring the resource overhead and inference speed when the model is actually deployed. In this paper, we lighten the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shiqi Li , Xiang Xiang

Deep learning-based 3D human pose estimation performs best when trained on large amounts of labeled data, making combined learning from many datasets an important research direction. One obstacle to this endeavor are the different skeleton…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 István Sárándi , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Current Transformer-based methods for small object detection continue emerging, yet they have still exhibited significant shortcomings. This paper introduces HeatMap Position Embedding (HMPE), a novel Transformer Optimization technique that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 YangChen Zeng