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Motion capture from a monocular video is fundamental and crucial for us humans to naturally experience and interact with each other in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). However, existing methods still struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Xin Chen , Zhuo Su , Lingbo Yang , Pei Cheng , Lan Xu , Bin Fu , Gang Yu

Due to the visual ambiguity, purely kinematic formulations on monocular human motion capture are often physically incorrect, biomechanically implausible, and can not reconstruct accurate interactions. In this work, we focus on exploiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Buzhen Huang , Liang Pan , Yuan Yang , Jingyi Ju , Yangang Wang

We propose the first real-time approach for the egocentric estimation of 3D human body pose in a wide range of unconstrained everyday activities. This setting has a unique set of challenges, such as mobility of the hardware setup, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Weipeng Xu , Avishek Chatterjee , Michael Zollhoefer , Helge Rhodin , Pascal Fua , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

We introduce MulayCap, a novel human performance capture method using a monocular video camera without the need for pre-scanning. The method uses "multi-layer" representations for geometry reconstruction and texture rendering, respectively.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Zhaoqi Su , Weilin Wan , Tao Yu , Lingjie Liu , Lu Fang , Wenping Wang , Yebin Liu

Reconstructing 3D human bodies from realistic motion sequences remains a challenge due to pervasive and complex occlusions. Current methods struggle to capture the dynamics of occluded body parts, leading to model penetration and distorted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Hongsheng Wang , Lizao Zhang , Zhangnan Zhong , Shuolin Xu , Xinrui Zhou , Shengyu Zhang , Huahao Xu , Fei Wu , Feng Lin

Optical motion capture is a foundational technology driving advancements in cutting-edge fields such as virtual reality and film production. However, system performance suffers severely under large-scale marker occlusions common in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chen Qian , Danyang Li , Xinran Yu , Zheng Yang , Qiang Ma

Marker-less monocular 3D human motion capture (MoCap) with scene interactions is a challenging research topic relevant for extended reality, robotics and virtual avatar generation. Due to the inherent depth ambiguity of monocular settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Soshi Shimada , Vladislav Golyanik , Zhi Li , Patrick Pérez , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt

We introduce an approach for detecting and tracking detailed 3D poses of multiple people from a single monocular camera stream. Our system maintains temporally coherent predictions in crowded scenes filled with difficult poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Alejandro Newell , Peiyun Hu , Lahav Lipson , Stephan R. Richter , Vladlen Koltun

Marker-based motion capture (MoCap) systems have long been the gold standard for accurate 4D human modeling, yet their reliance on specialized hardware and markers limits scalability and real-world deployment. Advancing reliable markerless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yeeun Park , Miqdad Naduthodi , Suryansh Kumar

Capturing challenging human motions is critical for numerous applications, but it suffers from complex motion patterns and severe self-occlusion under the monocular setting. In this paper, we propose ChallenCap -- a template-based approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yannan He , Anqi Pang , Xin Chen , Han Liang , Minye Wu , Yuexin Ma , Lan Xu

Human motion prediction is an increasingly interesting topic in computer vision and robotics. In this paper, we propose a new 2D CNN based network, TrajectoryNet, to predict future poses in the trajectory space. Compared with most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Xiaoli Liu , Jianqin Yin , Jin Liu , Pengxiang Ding , Jun Liu , Huaping Liu

Creating compelling 3D character animations typically requires either expert use of professional software or expensive motion capture systems operated by skilled actors. We present DancingBox, a lightweight, vision-based system that makes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Haocheng Yuan , Adrien Bousseau , Hao Pan , Lei Zhong , Changjian Li

This paper proposes GraviCap, i.e., a new approach for joint markerless 3D human motion capture and object trajectory estimation from monocular RGB videos. We focus on scenes with objects partially observed during a free flight. In contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Rishabh Dabral , Soshi Shimada , Arjun Jain , Christian Theobalt , Vladislav Golyanik

Whole-body humanoid motion represents a fundamental challenge in robotics, requiring balance, coordination, and adaptability to enable human-like behaviors. However, existing methods typically require multiple training samples per motion,…

Monocular egocentric human pose estimation is essential for ubiquitous activity monitoring. However, understanding the user's absolute location within the environment remains a challenge. Existing methods primarily focus on relative motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hiroyuki Deguchi , Ryosuke Hori , Kotaro Amaya , Tsubasa Maruyama , Mitsunori Tada , Hideo Saito

Existing human Motion Capture (MoCap) methods mostly focus on the visual similarity while neglecting the physical plausibility. As a result, downstream tasks such as driving virtual human in 3D scene or humanoid robots in real world suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Shenghao Ren , Yi Lu , Jiayi Huang , Jiayi Zhao , He Zhang , Tao Yu , Qiu Shen , Xun Cao

Perceiving humans in the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) often relies on multiple cameras or expensive LiDAR sensors. In this work, we present a new cost-effective vision-based method that perceives humans' locations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Lorenzo Bertoni , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Monocular 3D motion capture (mocap) is beneficial to many applications. The use of a single camera, however, often fails to handle occlusions of different body parts and hence it is limited to capture relatively simple movements. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Han Liang , Yannan He , Chengfeng Zhao , Mutian Li , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

Combining sparse IMUs and a monocular camera is a new promising setting to perform real-time human motion capture. This paper proposes a diffusion-based solution to learn human motion priors and fuse the two modalities of signals together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Shaohua Pan , Xinyu Yi , Yan Zhou , Weihua Jian , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Feng Xu

Existing motion generation methods based on mocap data are often limited by data quality and coverage. In this work, we propose a framework that generates diverse, physically feasible full-body human reaching and grasping motions using only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yitang Li , Mingxian Lin , Zhuo Lin , Yipeng Deng , Yue Cao , Li Yi