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Existing 3D Human Pose Estimation (HPE) methods achieve high accuracy but suffer from computational overhead and slow inference, while knowledge distillation methods fail to address spatial relationships between joints and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weihong Chen , Xuemiao Xu , Haoxin Yang , Yi Xie , Peng Xiao , Cheng Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Existing human pose estimation approaches often only consider how to improve the model generalisation performance, but putting aside the significant efficiency problem. This leads to the development of heavy models with poor scalability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Feng Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Mao Ye

Monocular 3D human pose estimation is quite challenging due to the inherent ambiguity and occlusion, which often lead to high uncertainty and indeterminacy. On the other hand, diffusion models have recently emerged as an effective tool for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jia Gong , Lin Geng Foo , Zhipeng Fan , Qiuhong Ke , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Human Pose (HP) estimation is actively researched because of its wide range of applications. However, even estimators pre-trained on large datasets may not perform satisfactorily due to a domain gap between the training and test data. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Hiromu Taketsugu , Norimichi Ukita

While heatmap-based human pose estimation methods have shown strong performance, they suffer from three main problems: (P1) "Commonly used Mean Squared Error (MSE)" Loss may not always improve joint localization because it penalizes all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Muhammed Can Keles , Bedrettin Cetinkaya , Sinan Kalkan , Emre Akbas

Human pose estimation - the process of recognizing human keypoints in a given image - is one of the most important tasks in computer vision and has a wide range of applications including movement diagnostics, surveillance, or self-driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Trung Q. Tran , Giang V. Nguyen , Daeyoung Kim

The typical bottom-up human pose estimation framework includes two stages, keypoint detection and grouping. Most existing works focus on developing grouping algorithms, e.g., associative embedding, and pixel-wise keypoint regression that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ke Sun , Zigang Geng , Depu Meng , Bin Xiao , Dong Liu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Jingdong Wang

Traditionally, monocular 3D human pose estimation employs a machine learning model to predict the most likely 3D pose for a given input image. However, a single image can be highly ambiguous and induces multiple plausible solutions for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Karl Holmquist , Bastian Wandt

Although deep convolution neural networks (DCNN) have achieved excellent performance in human pose estimation, these networks often have a large number of parameters and computations, leading to the slow inference speed. For this issue, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Yao Gao , Yuchen Ge , Weidong Tian

Human pose estimation in videos remains a challenge, largely due to the reliance on extensive manual annotation of large datasets, which is expensive and labor-intensive. Furthermore, existing approaches often struggle to capture long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yingying Jiao , Zhigang Wang , Sifan Wu , Shaojing Fan , Zhenguang Liu , Zhuoyue Xu , Zheqi Wu

In this paper, we present a regression-based pose recognition method using cascade Transformers. One way to categorize the existing approaches in this domain is to separate them into 1). heatmap-based and 2). regression-based. In general,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Ke Li , Shijie Wang , Xiang Zhang , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Zhuowen Tu

Animal pose estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision, with growing importance in ecological monitoring, behavioral analysis, and intelligent livestock management. Compared to human pose estimation, animal pose estimation is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tianyu Xiong , Dayi Tan , Wei Tian

Monocular 3D human pose estimation remains a challenging task due to inherent depth ambiguities and occlusions. Compared to traditional methods based on Transformers or Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), recent diffusion-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoxin Yang , Weihong Chen , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Peng Xiao , Cuifeng Sun , Shaoyu Huang , Shengfeng He

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

While CNN-based models have made remarkable progress on human pose estimation, what spatial dependencies they capture to localize keypoints remains unclear. In this work, we propose a model called \textbf{TransPose}, which introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Sen Yang , Zhibin Quan , Mu Nie , Wankou Yang

Heatmap-based methods have become the mainstream method for pose estimation due to their superior performance. However, heatmap-based approaches suffer from significant quantization errors with downscale heatmaps, which result in limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Haonan Wang , Jie Liu , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu

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

The target of 2D human pose estimation is to locate the keypoints of body parts from input 2D images. State-of-the-art methods for pose estimation usually construct pixel-wise heatmaps from keypoints as labels for learning convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Kun Zhang , Rui Wu , Ping Yao , Kai Deng , Ding Li , Renbiao Liu , Chuanguang Yang , Ge Chen , Min Du , Tianyao Zheng

We present an innovative approach to 3D Human Pose Estimation (3D-HPE) by integrating cutting-edge diffusion models, which have revolutionized diverse fields, but are relatively unexplored in 3D-HPE. We show that diffusion models enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Cédric Rommel , Eduardo Valle , Mickaël Chen , Souhaiel Khalfaoui , Renaud Marlet , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

Estimating human pose is an important yet challenging task in multimedia applications. Existing pose estimation libraries target reproducing standard pose estimation algorithms. When it comes to customising these algorithms for real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yixiao Guo , Jiawei Liu , Guo Li , Luo Mai , Hao Dong