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We introduce a benchmark to directly evaluate the alignment between human observers and vision models on a 3D shape inference task. We leverage an experimental design from the cognitive sciences which requires zero-shot visual inferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Tyler Bonnen , Stephanie Fu , Yutong Bai , Thomas O'Connell , Yoni Friedman , Nancy Kanwisher , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Alexei A. Efros

Human head detection, keypoint estimation, and 3D head model fitting are essential tasks with many applications. However, traditional real-world datasets often suffer from bias, privacy, and ethical concerns, and they have been recorded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Orest Kupyn , Eugene Khvedchenia , Christian Rupprecht

Existing 3D human pose estimation methods often suffer in performance, when applied to cross-scenario inference, due to domain shifts in characteristics such as camera viewpoint, position, posture, and body size. Among these factors, camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jingjing Liu , Zhiyong Wang , Xinyu Fan , Amirhossein Dadashzadeh , Honghai Liu , Majid Mirmehdi

We present a generative approach to forecast long-term future human behavior in 3D, requiring only weak supervision from readily available 2D human action data. This is a fundamental task enabling many downstream applications. The required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Christian Diller , Thomas Funkhouser , Angela Dai

People spend a substantial part of their lives at rest in bed. 3D human pose and shape estimation for this activity would have numerous beneficial applications, yet line-of-sight perception is complicated by occlusion from bedding. Pressure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Henry M. Clever , Zackory Erickson , Ariel Kapusta , Greg Turk , C. Karen Liu , Charles C. Kemp

We propose a novel 3D human pose detector using two panoramic cameras. We show that transforming fisheye perspectives to rectilinear views allows a direct application of two-dimensional deep-learning pose estimation methods, without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Christoph Heindl , Thomas Pönitz , Andreas Pichler , Josef Scharinger

Human motion generation has shown great advances thanks to the recent diffusion models trained on large-scale motion capture data. Most of existing works, however, currently target animation of isolated people in empty scenes. Meanwhile,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yangsong Zhang , Abdul Ahad Butt , Gül Varol , Ivan Laptev

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

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition facilitates unobtrusive monitoring of human movements. However, determining the most effective sensor placement for optimal classification performance remains challenging. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Orhan Konak , Alexander Wischmann , Robin van de Water , Bert Arnrich

In the robot follow-ahead task, a mobile robot is tasked to maintain its relative position in front of a moving human actor while keeping the actor in sight. To accomplish this task, it is important that the robot understand the full 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Qingyuan Jiang , Burak Susam , Jun-Jee Chao , Volkan Isler

While 3D object detection and pose estimation has been studied for a long time, its evaluation is not yet completely satisfactory. Indeed, existing datasets typically consist in numerous acquisitions of only a few scenes because of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Romain Brégier , Frédéric Devernay , Laetitia Leyrit , James Crowley

Accurate whole-body multi-person pose estimation and tracking is an important yet challenging topic in computer vision. To capture the subtle actions of humans for complex behavior analysis, whole-body pose estimation including the face,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hao-Shu Fang , Jiefeng Li , Hongyang Tang , Chao Xu , Haoyi Zhu , Yuliang Xiu , Yong-Lu Li , Cewu Lu

Estimating 3D hand pose from single RGB images is a highly ambiguous problem that relies on an unbiased training dataset. In this paper, we analyze cross-dataset generalization when training on existing datasets. We find that approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Christian Zimmermann , Duygu Ceylan , Jimei Yang , Bryan Russell , Max Argus , Thomas Brox

This paper introduces an approach for multi-human 3D pose estimation and tracking based on calibrated multi-view. The main challenge lies in finding the cross-view and temporal correspondences correctly even when several human pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Hau Chu , Jia-Hong Lee , Yao-Chih Lee , Ching-Hsien Hsu , Jia-Da Li , Chu-Song Chen

Despite the significant improvement in the performance of monocular pose estimation approaches and their ability to generalize to unseen environments, multi-view (MV) approaches are often lagging behind in terms of accuracy and are specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Abdolrahim Kadkhodamohammadi , Nicolas Padoy

We propose an approach to estimate 3D human pose in real world units from a single RGBD image and show that it exceeds performance of monocular 3D pose estimation approaches from color as well as pose estimation exclusively from depth. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Christian Zimmermann , Tim Welschehold , Christian Dornhege , Wolfram Burgard , Thomas Brox

We propose a method of estimating a 3D human pose from a single view without 3D supervision. The key to our method is to leverage the 2D diffusion priors of motion diffusion models (MDMs) pre-trained on large 2D human pose datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ryohei Goto , Takuya Fujihashi , Shunsuke Saruwatari , Fumio Okura

In monocular 3D human pose estimation a common setup is to first detect 2D positions and then lift the detection into 3D coordinates. Many algorithms suffer from overfitting to camera positions in the training set. We propose a siamese…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Márton Véges , Viktor Varga , András Lőrincz

Accurate human trajectory prediction is one of the most crucial tasks for autonomous driving, ensuring its safety. Yet, existing models often fail to fully leverage the visual cues that humans subconsciously communicate when navigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yang Gao , Saeed Saadatnejad , Alexandre Alahi

3D human pose estimation from 2D images is a challenging problem due to depth ambiguity and occlusion. Because of these challenges the task is underdetermined, where there exists multiple -- possibly infinite -- poses that are plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Francis Snelgar , Ming Xu , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng , Akshay Asthana