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In this letter, we present a novel markerless 3D human motion capture (MoCap) system for unstructured, outdoor environments that uses a team of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with on-board RGB cameras and computation. Existing…

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Marker-based and marker-less optical skeletal motion-capture methods use an outside-in arrangement of cameras placed around a scene, with viewpoints converging on the center. They often create discomfort by possibly needed marker suits, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Helge Rhodin , Christian Richardt , Dan Casas , Eldar Insafutdinov , Mohammad Shafiei , Hans-Peter Seidel , Bernt Schiele , Christian Theobalt

The potential of facial expression reconstruction technology is significant, with applications in various fields such as human-computer interaction, affective computing, and virtual reality. Recent studies have proposed using ear-worn…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xianrong Yao , Lingde Hu , Dong She , Yincheng Jin , Yang Gao , Zhanpeng Jin

Sparse wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) have gained popularity for estimating 3D human motion. However, challenges such as pose ambiguity, data drift, and limited adaptability to diverse bodies persist. To address these issues, we…

Recent advancements in visual-inertial motion capture systems have demonstrated the potential of combining monocular cameras with sparse inertial measurement units (IMUs) as cost-effective solutions, which effectively mitigate occlusion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tutian Tang , Xingyu Ji , Yutong Li , MingHao Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Cewu Lu

Recovering 3D full-body human pose is a challenging problem with many applications. It has been successfully addressed by motion capture systems with body worn markers and multiple cameras. In this paper, we address the more challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Xiaowei Zhou , Menglong Zhu , Georgios Pavlakos , Spyridon Leonardos , Kostantinos G. Derpanis , Kostas Daniilidis

Humans constantly interact with daily objects to accomplish tasks. To understand such interactions, computers need to reconstruct these from cameras observing whole-body interaction with scenes. This is challenging due to occlusion between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yinghao Huang , Omid Tehari , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas

We introduce a novel approach to user authentication called Motion ID. The method employs motion sensing provided by inertial measurement units (IMUs), using it to verify the persons identity via short time series of IMU data captured by…

By learning human motion priors, motion capture can be achieved by 6 inertial measurement units (IMUs) in recent years with the development of deep learning techniques, even though the sensor inputs are sparse and noisy. However, human…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xinyu Yi , Shaohua Pan , Feng Xu

Automatically describing video, or video captioning, has been widely studied in the multimedia field. This paper proposes a new task of sensor-augmented egocentric-video captioning, a newly constructed dataset for it called MMAC Captions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Katsuyuki Nakamura , Hiroki Ohashi , Mitsuhiro Okada

We present the first marker-less approach for temporally coherent 3D performance capture of a human with general clothing from monocular video. Our approach reconstructs articulated human skeleton motion as well as medium-scale non-rigid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Weipeng Xu , Avishek Chatterjee , Michael Zollhöfer , Helge Rhodin , Dushyant Mehta , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

Recognizing the same faces with and without masks is important for ensuring consistent identification in security, access control, and public safety. This capability is crucial in scenarios like law enforcement, healthcare, and…

Inertial odometry (IO) using only Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) offers a lightweight and cost-effective solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, yet existing learning-based IO models often fail to generalize to UAVs due…

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We present a method to combine markerless motion capture and dense pose feature estimation into a single framework. We demonstrate that dense pose information can help for multiview/single-view motion capture, and multiview motion capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Xiu Li , Yebin Liu , Hanbyul Joo , Qionghai Dai , Yaser Sheikh

Existing motion capture datasets are largely short-range and cannot yet fit the need of long-range applications. We propose LiDARHuman26M, a new human motion capture dataset captured by LiDAR at a much longer range to overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jialian Li , Jingyi Zhang , Zhiyong Wang , Siqi Shen , Chenglu Wen , Yuexin Ma , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu , Cheng Wang

Large datasets are the cornerstone of recent advances in computer vision using deep learning. In contrast, existing human motion capture (mocap) datasets are small and the motions limited, hampering progress on learning models of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Naureen Mahmood , Nima Ghorbani , Nikolaus F. Troje , Gerard Pons-Moll , Michael J. Black

Monocular 3D human performance capture is indispensable for many applications in computer graphics and vision for enabling immersive experiences. However, detailed capture of humans requires tracking of multiple aspects, including the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yue Jiang , Marc Habermann , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt

The development of existing facial coding systems, such as the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), relied on manual examination of facial expression videos for defining Action Units (AUs). To overcome the labor-intensive nature of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Shivansh Chandra Tripathi , Rahul Garg

MEMS Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) as ubiquitous proprioceptive motion measurement devices are available on various everyday gadgets and robotic platforms. Nevertheless, the direct inference of geometrical transformations or odometry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 R. Khorrambakht , H. Damirchi , H. D. Taghirad

In recent years there have been excellent results in Visual-Inertial Odometry techniques, which aim to compute the incremental motion of the sensor with high accuracy and robustness. However these approaches lack the capability to close…

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