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Existing Transformers for monocular 3D human shape and pose estimation typically have a quadratic computation and memory complexity with respect to the feature length, which hinders the exploitation of fine-grained information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Xiangyu Xu , Lijuan Liu , Shuicheng Yan

With the rapid development of autonomous driving, LiDAR-based 3D Human Pose Estimation (3D HPE) is becoming a research focus. However, due to the noise and sparsity of LiDAR-captured point clouds, robust human pose estimation remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xiaoqi An , Lin Zhao , Chen Gong , Jun Li , Jian Yang

This study presents a new network (i.e., PoseLifter) that can lift a 2D human pose to an absolute 3D pose in a camera coordinate system. The proposed network estimates the absolute 3D location of a target subject and generates an improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Ju Yong Chang , Gyeongsik Moon , Kyoung Mu Lee

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

Monocular 3D human pose estimation remains a challenging and ill-posed problem, particularly in real-time settings and unconstrained environments. While direct imageto-3D approaches require large annotated datasets and heavy models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Mohamed Adjel

Estimating 3D poses from a monocular video is still a challenging task, despite the significant progress that has been made in recent years. Generally, the performance of existing methods drops when the target person is too small/large, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Yu Cheng , Bo Yang , Bo Wang , Robby T. Tan

2D-to-3D human pose lifting is an ill-posed problem due to depth ambiguity and occlusion. Existing methods relying on spatial and temporal consistency alone are insufficient to resolve these problems especially in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Longyun Liao , Rong Zheng

The dominant paradigm in 3D human pose estimation that lifts a 2D pose sequence to 3D heavily relies on long-term temporal clues (i.e., using a daunting number of video frames) for improved accuracy, which incurs performance saturation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Qitao Zhao , Ce Zheng , Mengyuan Liu , Chen Chen

Estimating 3D human poses from monocular videos is a challenging task due to depth ambiguity and self-occlusion. Most existing works attempt to solve both issues by exploiting spatial and temporal relationships. However, those works ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Wenhao Li , Hong Liu , Hao Tang , Pichao Wang , Luc Van Gool

The lifting-based methods have dominated monocular 3D human pose estimation by leveraging detected 2D poses as intermediate representations. The 2D component of the final 3D human pose benefits from the detected 2D poses, whereas its depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Mengyuan Liu , Jiajie Liu , Jinyan Zhang , Wenhao Li , Junsong Yuan

Human pose estimation in two-dimensional images videos has been a hot topic in the computer vision problem recently due to its vast benefits and potential applications for improving human life, such as behaviors recognition, motion capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Thong Duy Nguyen , Milan Kresovic

Occlusion is an omnipresent challenge in 3D human pose estimation (HPE). In spite of the large amount of research dedicated to 3D HPE, only a limited number of studies address the problem of occlusion explicitly. To fill this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Soubarna Banik , Patricia Gschoßmann , Alejandro Mendoza Garcia , Alois Knoll

Estimating 3D human poses from video is a challenging problem. The lack of 3D human pose annotations is a major obstacle for supervised training and for generalization to unseen datasets. In this work, we address this problem by proposing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Mohsen Gholami , Ahmad Rezaei , Helge Rhodin , Rabab Ward , Z. Jane Wang

Thanks to the development of 2D keypoint detectors, monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE) via 2D-to-3D uplifting approaches have achieved remarkable improvements. Still, monocular 3D HPE is a challenging problem due to the inherent depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Jeongjun Choi , Dongseok Shim , H. Jin Kim

Monocular 3D human pose estimation technologies have the potential to greatly increase the availability of human movement data. The best-performing models for single-image 2D-3D lifting use graph convolutional networks (GCNs) that typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sebastian Lutz , Richard Blythman , Koustav Ghosal , Matthew Moynihan , Ciaran Simms , Aljosa Smolic

Estimating 3d human pose from monocular images is a challenging problem due to the variety and complexity of human poses and the inherent ambiguity in recovering depth from the single view. Recent deep learning based methods show promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Sandika Biswas , Sanjana Sinha , Kavya Gupta , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Human pose estimation from single images is a challenging problem that is typically solved by supervised learning. Unfortunately, labeled training data does not yet exist for many human activities since 3D annotation requires dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Bastian Wandt , James J. Little , Helge Rhodin

Recovering 3D human poses from a monocular camera view is a highly ill-posed problem due to the depth ambiguity. Earlier studies on 3D human pose lifting from 2D often contain incorrect-yet-overconfident 3D estimations. To mitigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cuong Le , Pavlo Melnyk , Bastian Wandt , Mårten Wadenbäck

Online test-time adaptation for 3D human pose estimation is used for video streams that differ from training data. Ground truth 2D poses are used for adaptation, but only estimated 2D poses are available in practice. This paper addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Qiuxia Lin , Kerui Gu , Linlin Yang , Angela Yao

Due to the difficulty of acquiring large-scale 3D human keypoint annotation, previous methods for 3D human pose estimation (HPE) have often relied on 2D image features and sequential 2D annotations. Furthermore, the training of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Dongqiangzi Ye , Yufei Xie , Weijia Chen , Zixiang Zhou , Lingting Ge , Hassan Foroosh