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We present EgoPoseFormer, a simple yet effective transformer-based model for stereo egocentric human pose estimation. The main challenge in egocentric pose estimation is overcoming joint invisibility, which is caused by self-occlusion or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Chenhongyi Yang , Anastasia Tkach , Shreyas Hampali , Linguang Zhang , Elliot J. Crowley , Cem Keskin

We focus on the task of everyday hand pose estimation from egocentric viewpoints. For this task, we show that depth sensors are particularly informative for extracting near-field interactions of the camera wearer with his/her environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Gregory Rogez , James S. Supancic , Maryam Khademi , Jose Maria Martinez Montiel , Deva Ramanan

Estimating 3D human motion from an egocentric video sequence plays a critical role in human behavior understanding and has various applications in VR/AR. However, naively learning a mapping between egocentric videos and human motions is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiaman Li , C. Karen Liu , Jiajun Wu

Egocentric 3D hand pose estimation and gesture recognition are essential for immersive augmented/virtual reality, human-computer interaction, and robotics. However, conventional frame-based cameras suffer from motion blur and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Luming Wang , Hao Shi , Jiajun Zhai , Kailun Yang , Kaiwei Wang

Event cameras offer multiple advantages in monocular egocentric 3D human pose estimation from head-mounted devices, such as millisecond temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and negligible motion blur. Existing methods effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Mayur Deshmukh , Hiroyasu Akada , Helge Rhodin , Christian Theobalt , Vladislav Golyanik

Egocentric 3D human pose estimation has been actively studied using cameras installed in front of a head-mounted device (HMD). While frontal placement is the optimal and the only option for some tasks, such as hand tracking, it remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Hiroyasu Akada , Jian Wang , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt

Egocentric human pose estimation (HPE) using a head-mounted device is crucial for various VR and AR applications, but it faces significant challenges due to keypoint invisibility. Nevertheless, none of the existing egocentric HPE datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Peng Dai , Yu Zhang , Yiqiang Feng , Zhen Fan , Yang Zhang

Egocentric 3D human pose estimation (HPE) from images is challenging due to severe self-occlusions and strong distortion introduced by the fish-eye view from the head mounted camera. Although existing works use intermediate heatmap-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Jinman Park , Kimathi Kaai , Saad Hossain , Norikatsu Sumi , Sirisha Rambhatla , Paul Fieguth

Understanding social interactions from egocentric views is crucial for many applications, ranging from assistive robotics to AR/VR. Key to reasoning about interactions is to understand the body pose and motion of the interaction partner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Siwei Zhang , Qianli Ma , Yan Zhang , Zhiyin Qian , Taein Kwon , Marc Pollefeys , Federica Bogo , Siyu Tang

The 3D world limits the human body pose and the human body pose conveys information about the surrounding objects. Indeed, from a single image of a person placed in an indoor scene, we as humans are adept at resolving ambiguities of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Zhenzhen Weng , Serena Yeung

We tackle the problem of estimating the 3D pose of an individual's upper limbs (arms+hands) from a chest mounted depth-camera. Importantly, we consider pose estimation during everyday interactions with objects. Past work shows that strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Gregory Rogez , James S. Supancic , Deva Ramanan

Action recognition is essential for egocentric video understanding, allowing automatic and continuous monitoring of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) without user effort. Existing literature focuses on 3D hand pose input, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Wiktor Mucha , Martin Kampel

In this paper, we study a problem of egocentric scene understanding, i.e., predicting depths and surface normals from an egocentric image. Egocentric scene understanding poses unprecedented challenges: (1) due to large head movements, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Tien Do , Khiem Vuong , Hyun Soo Park

Full-body egocentric pose estimation from head and hand poses alone has become an active area of research to power articulate avatar representations on headset-based platforms. However, existing methods over-rely on the indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Jiaxi Jiang , Paul Streli , Manuel Meier , Christian Holz

In this work, we explore egocentric whole-body motion capture using a single fisheye camera, which simultaneously estimates human body and hand motion. This task presents significant challenges due to three factors: the lack of high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jian Wang , Zhe Cao , Diogo Luvizon , Lingjie Liu , Kripasindhu Sarkar , Danhang Tang , Thabo Beeler , Christian Theobalt

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

People continuously perceive and interact with their surroundings based on underlying intentions that drive their exploration and behaviors. While research in egocentric user and scene understanding has focused primarily on motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Heeseung Yun , Joonil Na , Jaeyeon Kim , Calvin Murdock , Gunhee Kim

We present a novel method for recovering the absolute pose and shape of a human in a pre-scanned scene given a single image. Unlike previous methods that perform sceneaware mesh optimization, we propose to first estimate absolute position…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zehong Shen , Zhi Cen , Sida Peng , Qing Shuai , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

3D human pose estimation captures the human joint points in three-dimensional space while keeping the depth information and physical structure. That is essential for applications that require precise pose information, such as human-computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jianbin Jiao , Xina Cheng , Weijie Chen , Xiaoting Yin , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang

3D pose estimation is a challenging problem in computer vision. Most of the existing neural-network-based approaches address color or depth images through convolution networks (CNNs). In this paper, we study the task of 3D human pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Yufan Zhou , Haiwei Dong , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik