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The existing human pose estimation methods are confronted with inaccurate long-distance regression or high computational cost due to the complex learning objectives. This work proposes a novel deep learning framework for human pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 ZiFan Chen , Xin Qin , Chao Yang , Li Zhang

Reconstructing 3D human pose and shape from monocular videos is a well-studied but challenging problem. Common challenges include occlusions, the inherent ambiguities in the 2D to 3D mapping and the computational complexity of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Nikolaos Vasilikopoulos , Nikos Kolotouros , Aggeliki Tsoli , Antonis Argyros

Visual geometry transformers have become powerful architectures for multi-view 3D reconstruction, enabling joint prediction of multiple 3D attributes in a feed-forward manner. However, their computational cost grows quadratically with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shuhong Zheng , Michael Oechsle , Erik Sandström , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Federico Tombari , Igor Gilitschenski

Pose estimation is a critical task in computer vision with a wide range of applications from activity monitoring to human-robot interaction. However,most of the existing methods are computationally expensive or have complex architecture.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Marsha Mariya Kappan , Eduardo Benitez Sandoval , Erik Meijering , Francisco Cruz

We present MoVNect, a lightweight deep neural network to capture 3D human pose using a single RGB camera. To improve the overall performance of the model, we apply the teacher-student learning method based knowledge distillation to 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Dong-Hyun Hwang , Suntae Kim , Nicolas Monet , Hideki Koike , Soonmin Bae

Estimating the 3D position of human joints has become a widely researched topic in the last years. Special emphasis has gone into defining novel methods that extrapolate 2-dimensional data (keypoints) into 3D, namely predicting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Adrian Llopart

Despite the promising performance of current 3D human pose estimation techniques, understanding and enhancing their generalization on challenging in-the-wild videos remain an open problem. In this work, we focus on the robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Trung-Hieu Hoang , Mona Zehni , Huy Phan , Duc Minh Vo , Minh N. Do

Slow inference speed is one of the most crucial concerns for deploying multi-view 3D detectors to tasks with high real-time requirements like autonomous driving. Although many sparse query-based methods have already attempted to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dingyuan Zhang , Dingkang Liang , Zichang Tan , Xiaoqing Ye , Cheng Zhang , Jingdong Wang , Xiang Bai

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

Nowadays, Transformers and Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are the prevailing techniques for 3D human pose estimation. However, Transformer-based methods either ignore the spatial neighborhood relationships between the joints when used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kamel Aouaidjia , Aofan Li , Wenhao Zhang , Chongsheng Zhang

In this paper, a real-time method called PoP-Net is proposed to predict multi-person 3D poses from a depth image. PoP-Net learns to predict bottom-up part representations and top-down global poses in a single shot. Specifically, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yuliang Guo , Zhong Li , Zekun Li , Xiangyu Du , Shuxue Quan , Yi Xu

Human pose estimation deeply relies on visual clues and anatomical constraints between parts to locate keypoints. Most existing CNN-based methods do well in visual representation, however, lacking in the ability to explicitly learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Yanjie Li , Shoukui Zhang , Zhicheng Wang , Sen Yang , Wankou Yang , Shu-Tao Xia , Erjin Zhou

In this paper we present a novel approach for bottom-up multi-person 3D human pose estimation from monocular RGB images. We propose to use high resolution volumetric heatmaps to model joint locations, devising a simple and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Matteo Fabbri , Fabio Lanzi , Simone Calderara , Stefano Alletto , Rita Cucchiara

Due to its significant capability of modeling long-range dependencies, vision transformer (ViT) has achieved promising success in both holistic and occluded person re-identification (Re-ID) tasks. However, the inherent problems of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Junzhu Mao , Yazhou Yao , Zeren Sun , Xingguo Huang , Fumin Shen , Heng-Tao Shen

Attention is sparse in vision transformers. We observe the final prediction in vision transformers is only based on a subset of most informative tokens, which is sufficient for accurate image recognition. Based on this observation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yongming Rao , Wenliang Zhao , Benlin Liu , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Action recognition in videos poses a challenge due to its high computational cost, especially for Joint Space-Time video transformers (Joint VT). Despite their effectiveness, the excessive number of tokens in such architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Qian Wu , Ruoxuan Cui , Yuke Li , Haoqi Zhu

Since its inception, Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a prevalent model in the computer vision domain. Nonetheless, the multi-head self-attention (MHSA) mechanism in ViT is computationally expensive due to its calculation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhe Bian , Zhe Wang , Wenqiang Han , Kangping Wang

Although vision transformers (ViTs) have shown promising results in various computer vision tasks recently, their high computational cost limits their practical applications. Previous approaches that prune redundant tokens have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Siyuan Wei , Tianzhu Ye , Shen Zhang , Yao Tang , Jiajun Liang

Despite significant progress in single image-based 3D human mesh recovery, accurately and smoothly recovering 3D human motion from a video remains challenging. Existing video-based methods generally recover human mesh by estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yingxuan You , Hong Liu , Ti Wang , Wenhao Li , Runwei Ding , Xia Li

We propose a novel generative approach for 3D human pose estimation. 3D human pose estimation poses several key challenges due to the complex geometry of the human body, self-occluding joints, and the requirement for large-scale real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hyunsoo Lee , Daeum Jeon , Hyeokjae Oh