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Low-visibility scenarios, such as low-light conditions, pose significant challenges to human pose estimation due to the scarcity of annotated low-light datasets and the loss of visual information under poor illumination. Recent domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haopeng Chen , Yihao Ai , Kabeen Kim , Robby T. Tan , Yixin Chen , Bo Wang

In this paper, we present UniPose, a unified cross-modality pose prior propagation method for weakly supervised 3D human pose estimation (HPE) using unannotated single-view RGB-D sequences (RGB, depth, and point cloud data). UniPose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jinghong Zheng , Changlong Jiang , Jiaqi Li , Haohong Kuang , Hang Xu , Tingbing Yan

The state-of-the-art for monocular 3D human pose estimation in videos is dominated by the paradigm of 2D-to-3D pose uplifting. While the uplifting methods themselves are rather efficient, the true computational complexity depends on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Moritz Einfalt , Katja Ludwig , Rainer Lienhart

Reliable three-dimensional human pose estimation (3D HPE) remains challenging due to the differences in viewpoints, environments, and camera conventions among datasets. As a result, methods that achieve near-optimal in-dataset accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Saad Manzur , Bryan Vela , Brandon Vela , Aditya Agrawal , Lan-Anh Dang-Vu , David Li , Wayne Hayes

We present a novel method for estimation of 3D human poses from a multi-camera setup, employing distributed smart edge sensors coupled with a backend through a semantic feedback loop. 2D joint detection for each camera view is performed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Simon Bultmann , Sven Behnke

3D human pose lifting from a single RGB image is a challenging task in 3D vision. Existing methods typically establish a direct joint-to-joint mapping from 2D to 3D poses based on 2D features. This formulation suffers from two fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jinghong Zheng , Changlong Jiang , Yang Xiao , Jiaqi Li , Haohong Kuang , Hang Xu , Ran Wang , Zhiguo Cao , Min Du , Joey Tianyi Zhou

We present a novel approach for 3D human pose estimation by employing probabilistic modeling. This approach leverages the advantages of normalizing flows in non-Euclidean geometries to address uncertain poses. Specifically, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Karthik Shetty , Annette Birkhold , Bernhard Egger , Srikrishna Jaganathan , Norbert Strobel , Markus Kowarschik , Andreas Maier

Estimating human pose is an important yet challenging task in multimedia applications. Existing pose estimation libraries target reproducing standard pose estimation algorithms. When it comes to customising these algorithms for real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yixiao Guo , Jiawei Liu , Guo Li , Luo Mai , Hao Dong

In this paper, we propose a new single shot method for multi-person 3D human pose estimation in complex images. The model jointly learns to locate the human joints in the image, to estimate their 3D coordinates and to group these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Abdallah Benzine , Bertrand Luvison , Quoc Cuong Pham , Catherine Achard

Recovering 3D human poses from a monocular camera view is a highly ill-posed problem due to the depth ambiguity. Earlier studies on 3D human pose lifting from 2D often contain incorrect-yet-overconfident 3D estimations. To mitigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cuong Le , Pavlo Melnyk , Bastian Wandt , Mårten Wadenbäck

Deducing a 3D human pose from a single 2D image is inherently challenging because multiple 3D poses can correspond to the same 2D representation. 3D data can resolve this pose ambiguity, but it is expensive to record and requires an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Christian Keilstrup Ingwersen , Rasmus Tirsgaard , Rasmus Nylander , Janus Nørtoft Jensen , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Morten Rieger Hannemose

Pairwise pose estimation from images with little or no overlap is an open challenge in computer vision. Existing methods, even those trained on large-scale datasets, struggle in these scenarios due to the lack of identifiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ruojin Cai , Jason Y. Zhang , Philipp Henzler , Zhengqi Li , Noah Snavely , Ricardo Martin-Brualla

Monocular 3D human pose estimation remains a challenging task due to inherent depth ambiguities and occlusions. Compared to traditional methods based on Transformers or Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), recent diffusion-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoxin Yang , Weihong Chen , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Peng Xiao , Cuifeng Sun , Shaoyu Huang , Shengfeng He

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

Following the success of deep convolutional networks, state-of-the-art methods for 3d human pose estimation have focused on deep end-to-end systems that predict 3d joint locations given raw image pixels. Despite their excellent performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Julieta Martinez , Rayat Hossain , Javier Romero , James J. Little

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

Multi-person pose estimation generally follows top-down and bottom-up paradigms. Both of them use an extra stage ($\boldsymbol{e.g.,}$ human detection in top-down paradigm or grouping process in bottom-up paradigm) to build the relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yabo Xiao , Xiaojuan Wang , Dongdong Yu , Kai Su , Lei Jin , Mei Song , Shuicheng Yan , Jian Zhao

Estimating 3d human pose from monocular images is a challenging problem due to the variety and complexity of human poses and the inherent ambiguity in recovering depth from the single view. Recent deep learning based methods show promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Sandika Biswas , Sanjana Sinha , Kavya Gupta , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Camera captured human pose is an outcome of several sources of variation. Performance of supervised 3D pose estimation approaches comes at the cost of dispensing with variations, such as shape and appearance, that may be useful for solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Siddharth Seth , Varun Jampani , Mugalodi Rakesh , R. Venkatesh Babu , Anirban Chakraborty

We consider the task of estimating 3D human pose and shape from videos. While existing frame-based approaches have made significant progress, these methods are independently applied to each image, thereby often leading to inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yun-Chun Chen , Marco Piccirilli , Robinson Piramuthu , Ming-Hsuan Yang