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Reconstructing dynamic humans interacting with real-world environments from monocular videos is an important and challenging task. Despite considerable progress in 4D neural rendering, existing approaches either model dynamic scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Wenqing Wang , Haosen Yang , Josef Kittler , Xiatian Zhu

Occlusion poses a great threat to monocular multi-person 3D human pose estimation due to large variability in terms of the shape, appearance, and position of occluders. While existing methods try to handle occlusion with pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qihao Liu , Yi Zhang , Song Bai , Alan Yuille

We present a novel paradigm of building an animatable 3D human representation from a monocular video input, such that it can be rendered in any unseen poses and views. Our method is based on a dynamic Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) rigged by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Gusi Te , Xiu Li , Xiao Li , Jinglu Wang , Wei Hu , Yan Lu

Human performance capture is a highly important computer vision problem with many applications in movie production and virtual/augmented reality. Many previous performance capture approaches either required expensive multi-view setups or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Marc Habermann , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Gerard Pons-Moll , Christian Theobalt

We present a CloseUpAvatar - a novel approach for articulated human avatar representation dealing with more general camera motions, while preserving rendering quality for close-up views. CloseUpAvatar represents an avatar as a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 David Svitov , Pietro Morerio , Lourdes Agapito , Alessio Del Bue

Reliable markerless motion tracking of people participating in a complex group activity from multiple moving cameras is challenging due to frequent occlusions, strong viewpoint and appearance variations, and asynchronous video streams. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Minh Vo , Ersin Yumer , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Sunil Hadap , Yaser Sheikh , Srinivasa Narasimhan

Despite significant advancements in dynamic neural rendering, existing methods fail to address the unique challenges posed by UAV-captured scenarios, particularly those involving monocular camera setups, top-down perspective, and multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Christopher Maxey , Yonghan Lee , Sungmin Eum , Dinesh Manocha , Heesung Kwon

Existing research on avatar creation is typically limited to laboratory datasets, which require high costs against scalability and exhibit insufficient representation of the real world. On the other hand, the web abounds with off-the-shelf…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zihao Huang , Shoukang Hu , Guangcong Wang , Tianqi Liu , Yuhang Zang , Zhiguo Cao , Wei Li , Ziwei Liu

We present a bundle-adjustment-based algorithm for recovering accurate 3D human pose and meshes from monocular videos. Unlike previous algorithms which operate on single frames, we show that reconstructing a person over an entire sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Anurag Arnab , Carl Doersch , Andrew Zisserman

We introduce a novel task of reconstructing a time series of second-person 3D human body meshes from monocular egocentric videos. The unique viewpoint and rapid embodied camera motion of egocentric videos raise additional technical barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Miao Liu , Dexin Yang , Yan Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui , James M. Rehg , Siyu Tang

Human motion reconstruction from monocular videos is a fundamental challenge in computer vision, with broad applications in AR/VR, robotics, and digital content creation, but remains challenging under frequent occlusions in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Zhiyin Qian , Siwei Zhang , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Federica Bogo , Siyu Tang

Navigating dynamic and unstructured environments poses significant challenges for autonomous robots, particularly due to the uncertainty introduced by occluded areas. Conventional sensing methods often fail to detect obstacles hidden behind…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sithija Ranaraja

Traditional 3D morphable face models (3DMMs) provide fine-grained control over expression but cannot easily capture geometric and appearance details. Neural volumetric representations approach photorealism but are hard to animate and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yufeng Zheng , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya , Marcel C. Bühler , Xu Chen , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

We present a new end-to-end learning framework to obtain detailed and spatially coherent reconstructions of multiple people from a single image. Existing multi-person methods suffer from two main drawbacks: they are often model-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Armin Mustafa , Akin Caliskan , Lourdes Agapito , Adrian Hilton

We present Neural Head Avatars, a novel neural representation that explicitly models the surface geometry and appearance of an animatable human avatar that can be used for teleconferencing in AR/VR or other applications in the movie or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Philip-William Grassal , Malte Prinzler , Titus Leistner , Carsten Rother , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

To reach human performance on complex tasks, a key ability for artificial systems is to understand physical interactions between objects, and predict future outcomes of a situation. This ability, often referred to as intuitive physics, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ronan Riochet , Josef Sivic , Ivan Laptev , Emmanuel Dupoux

Occlusion is a common issue in 3D reconstruction from RGB-D videos, often blocking the complete reconstruction of objects and presenting an ongoing problem. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, empowered by a 2D diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yubin Hu , Sheng Ye , Wang Zhao , Matthieu Lin , Yuze He , Yu-Hui Wen , Ying He , Yong-Jin Liu

We present PersonaCraft, a framework for controllable and occlusion-robust full-body personalized image synthesis of multiple individuals in complex scenes. Current methods struggle with occlusion-heavy scenarios and complete body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Gwanghyun Kim , Suh Yoon Jeon , Seunggyu Lee , Se Young Chun

People detection in single 2D images has improved greatly in recent years. However, comparatively little of this progress has percolated into multi-camera multi-people tracking algorithms, whose performance still degrades severely when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Pierre Baqué , François Fleuret , Pascal Fua

Video-based human motion transfer creates video animations of humans following a source motion. Current methods show remarkable results for tightly-clad subjects. However, the lack of temporally consistent handling of plausible clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Moritz Kappel , Vladislav Golyanik , Mohamed Elgharib , Jann-Ole Henningson , Hans-Peter Seidel , Susana Castillo , Christian Theobalt , Marcus Magnor