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In this letter, we present a novel markerless 3D human motion capture (MoCap) system for unstructured, outdoor environments that uses a team of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with on-board RGB cameras and computation. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Nitin Saini , Elia Bonetto , Eric Price , Aamir Ahmad , Michael J. Black

Humans are in constant contact with the world as they move through it and interact with it. This contact is a vital source of information for understanding 3D humans, 3D scenes, and the interactions between them. In fact, we demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Hongwei Yi , Chun-Hao P. Huang , Dimitrios Tzionas , Muhammed Kocabas , Mohamed Hassan , Siyu Tang , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black

This paper addresses the challenge of novel-view synthesis and motion reconstruction of dynamic scenes from monocular video, which is critical for many robotic applications. Although Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xuesong Li , Lars Petersson , Vivien Rolland

Existing inverse physics methods recover physical parameters from multi-view videos, where geometric constraints across views resolve scale and 3D structure. In monocular settings, however, such constraints are absent, leading to severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Daniel Rho , Jun Myeong Choi , Matthew Thornton , Biswadip Dey , Roni Sengupta

We present a lightweight and affordable motion capture method based on two smartwatches and a head-mounted camera. In contrast to the existing approaches that use six or more expert-level IMU devices, our approach is much more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jiye Lee , Hanbyul Joo

In recent years, motion capture technology using computers has developed rapidly. Because of its high efficiency and excellent performance, it replaces many traditional methods and is being widely used in many fields. Our project is about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Yanquan Chen , Fei Yang , Tianyu Lang , Guanfang Dong , Anup Basu

Human motion generation is essential for fields such as animation, robotics, and virtual reality, requiring models that effectively capture motion dynamics from text descriptions. Existing approaches often rely on Contrastive Language-Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Gabriel Maldonado , Armin Danesh Pazho , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Vinit Katariya , Hamed Tabkhi

Object pose estimation is a core perception task that enables, for example, object grasping and scene understanding. The widely available, inexpensive and high-resolution RGB sensors and CNNs that allow for fast inference based on this…

Incorporating temporal information effectively is important for accurate 3D human motion estimation and generation which have wide applications from human-computer interaction to AR/VR. In this paper, we present MoManifold, a novel human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ziqiang Dang , Tianxing Fan , Boming Zhao , Xujie Shen , Lei Wang , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

We introduce a novel, data-driven approach for reconstructing temporally coherent 3D motion from unstructured and potentially partial observations of non-rigidly deforming shapes. Our goal is to achieve high-fidelity motion reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Aymen Merrouche , Stefanie Wuhrer , Edmond Boyer

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

Creating controllable 3D human portraits from casual smartphone videos is highly desirable due to their immense value in AR/VR applications. The recent development of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown improvements in rendering quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Alfredo Rivero , ShahRukh Athar , Zhixin Shu , Dimitris Samaras

We present a method for learning 3D geometry and physics parameters of a dynamic scene from only a monocular RGB video input. To decouple the learning of underlying scene geometry from dynamic motion, we represent the scene as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yi-Ling Qiao , Alexander Gao , Ming C. Lin

We introduce a free-viewpoint rendering method -- HumanNeRF -- that works on a given monocular video of a human performing complex body motions, e.g. a video from YouTube. Our method enables pausing the video at any frame and rendering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Chung-Yi Weng , Brian Curless , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Jonathan T. Barron , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

Dynamic scene reconstruction is a long-term challenge in the field of 3D vision. Recently, the emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting has provided new insights into this problem. Although subsequent efforts rapidly extend static 3D Gaussian to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ruijie Zhu , Yanzhe Liang , Hanzhi Chang , Jiacheng Deng , Jiahao Lu , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

Estimation of the human pose from a monocular camera has been an emerging research topic in the computer vision community with many applications. Recently, benefited from the deep learning technologies, a significant amount of research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wu Liu , Qian Bao , Yu Sun , Tao Mei

Single-view clothed human reconstruction holds a central position in virtual reality applications, especially in contexts involving intricate human motions. It presents notable challenges in achieving realistic clothing deformation. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hongsheng Wang , Xiang Cai , Xi Sun , Jinhong Yue , Zhanyun Tang , Shengyu Zhang , Feng Lin , Fei Wu

We present the first approach to volumetric performance capture and novel-view rendering at real-time speed from monocular video, eliminating the need for expensive multi-view systems or cumbersome pre-acquisition of a personalized template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Ruilong Li , Yuliang Xiu , Shunsuke Saito , Zeng Huang , Kyle Olszewski , Hao Li

We present a novel method to learn temporally consistent 3D reconstruction of clothed people from a monocular video. Recent methods for 3D human reconstruction from monocular video using volumetric, implicit or parametric human shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Akin Caliskan , Armin Mustafa , Adrian Hilton

This paper deals with motion capture of kinematic chains (e.g. human skeletons) from monocular image sequences taken by uncalibrated cameras. We present a method based on projecting an observation into a kinematic chain space (KCS). An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Bastian Wandt , Hanno Ackermann , Bodo Rosenhahn