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Markerless Motion Capture (MoCap) using smartphone cameras is a promising approach to making exergames more accessible and cost-effective for health and rehabilitation. Unlike traditional systems requiring specialized hardware, recent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Mathieu Phosanarack , Laura Wallard , Sophie Lepreux , Christophe Kolski , Eugénie Avril

Capturing smooth motions from videos using markerless techniques typically involves complex processes such as temporal constraints, multiple stages with data-driven regression and optimization, and bundle solving over temporal windows.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Georgios Albanis , Nikolaos Zioulis , Kostas Kolomvatsos

We propose a hardware and software pipeline to fabricate flexible wearable sensors and use them to capture deformations without line of sight. Our first contribution is a low-cost fabrication pipeline to embed multiple aligned conductive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Oliver Glauser , Daniele Panozzo , Otmar Hilliges , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Muscle-based systems have the potential to provide both anatomical accuracy and semantic interpretability as compared to blendshape models; however, a lack of expressivity and differentiability has limited their impact. Thus, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Michael Bao , Matthew Cong , Stéphane Grabli , Ronald Fedkiw

Human and environment sensing are two important topics in Computer Vision and Graphics. Human motion is often captured by inertial sensors, while the environment is mostly reconstructed using cameras. We integrate the two techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Xinyu Yi , Yuxiao Zhou , Marc Habermann , Vladislav Golyanik , Shaohua Pan , Christian Theobalt , Feng Xu

We are living in a world surrounded by diverse and "smart" devices with rich modalities of sensing ability. Conveniently capturing the interactions between us humans and these objects remains far-reaching. In this paper, we present I'm-HOI,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Chengfeng Zhao , Juze Zhang , Jiashen Du , Ziwei Shan , Junye Wang , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang , Lan Xu

This paper addresses the challenge of novel view synthesis for a human performer from a very sparse set of camera views. Some recent works have shown that learning implicit neural representations of 3D scenes achieves remarkable view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sida Peng , Yuanqing Zhang , Yinghao Xu , Qianqian Wang , Qing Shuai , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

We present IMU2CLIP, a novel pre-training approach to align Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) motion sensor recordings with video and text, by projecting them into the joint representation space of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Seungwhan Moon , Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Alireza Dirafzoon , Aparajita Saraf , Amy Bearman , Babak Damavandi

We present a new trainable system for physically plausible markerless 3D human motion capture, which achieves state-of-the-art results in a broad range of challenging scenarios. Unlike most neural methods for human motion capture, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Soshi Shimada , Vladislav Golyanik , Weipeng Xu , Patrick Pérez , Christian Theobalt

Deep learning-based multi-view facial capture methods have shown impressive accuracy while being several orders of magnitude faster than a traditional mesh registration pipeline. However, the existing systems (e.g. TEMPEH) are strictly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jing Li , Di Kang , Zhenyu He

This paper investigates the estimation problem of the pose (orientation and position) and linear velocity of a rigid body, as well as the landmark positions, using an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a monocular camera. First, we propose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Miaomiao Wang , Abdelhamid Tayebi

There is a growing research interest towards the use of wireless IMU sensors to assess disability, monitor progress and provide feedback to patients on range of motion and movement performance during upper body rehabilitation. The quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Miloš Ajčević , Manuela Deodato , Luigi Murena , Aleksandar Miladinović , Susanna Mezzarobba , Agostino Accardo

This paper presents a subject-independent facial action unit (AU) detection method by introducing the concept of relative AU detection, for scenarios where the neutral face is not provided. We propose a new classification objective function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Mahmoud Khademi , Louis-Philippe Morency

We introduce a new method that generates photo-realistic humans under novel views and poses given a monocular video as input. Despite the significant progress recently on this topic, with several methods exploring shared canonical neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Tiantian Wang , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Tony Tung

Mobile imitation learning on portable demonstration interfaces faces two coupled bottlenecks: locomotion-contaminated action labels and inference-induced execution latency on a continuously moving base. Recent wrist-mounted interfaces lower…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Haoran Huang , Haonan Dong , Huixu Dong

Motion capture (mocap) and time-of-flight based sensing of human actions are becoming increasingly popular modalities to perform robust activity analysis. Applications range from action recognition to quantifying movement quality for health…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Suhas Lohit , Rushil Anirudh , Pavan Turaga

Hand-over-face gestures can provide important implicit interactions during conversations, such as frustration or excitement. However, in situations where interlocutors are not visible, such as phone calls or textual communication, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Mengxi Liu , Hymalai Bello , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz , Jakob Karolus

To address the ill-posed problem caused by partial observations in monocular human volumetric capture, we present AvatarCap, a novel framework that introduces animatable avatars into the capture pipeline for high-fidelity reconstruction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zhe Li , Zerong Zheng , Hongwen Zhang , Chaonan Ji , Yebin Liu

Visual decoding of neurophysiological signals is a critical challenge for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and computational neuroscience. However, current approaches are often constrained by the systematic and stochastic gaps between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Feixue Shao , Guangze Shi , Xueyu Liu , Yongfei Wu , Mingqiang Wei , Jianan Zhang , Jianbo Lu , Guiying Yan , Weihua Yang

IMU-based gesture interfaces are being increasingly adopted as efficient, accessible, and intuitive alternatives to traditional input methods, such as touchscreens and voice. However, current gesture recognition algorithms are tailored to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Prerna Khanna , Tanmay Srivastava , Shubham Jain , Aruna Balasubramanian