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We address the problem of making human motion capture in the wild more practical by using a small set of inertial sensors attached to the body. Since the problem is heavily under-constrained, previous methods either use a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Timo von Marcard , Bodo Rosenhahn , Michael J. Black , Gerard Pons-Moll

We demonstrate a novel deep neural network capable of reconstructing human full body pose in real-time from 6 Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) worn on the user's body. In doing so, we address several difficult challenges. First, the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Yinghao Huang , Manuel Kaufmann , Emre Aksan , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges , Gerard Pons-Moll

Motion capture using sparse inertial sensors has shown great promise due to its portability and lack of occlusion issues compared to camera-based tracking. Existing approaches typically assume that IMU sensors are tightly attached to the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Andela Ilic , Jiaxi Jiang , Paul Streli , Xintong Liu , Christian Holz

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) to assess human motion in sports, rehabilitation or work safety requires accurate sensing without compromising the sensitive underlying personal data. Therefore, local processing is necessary and the limited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Iris Fürst-Walter , Antonio Nappi , Tanja Harbaum , Jürgen Becker

We propose to estimate 3D human pose from multi-view images and a few IMUs attached at person's limbs. It operates by firstly detecting 2D poses from the two signals, and then lifting them to the 3D space. We present a geometric approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Zhe Zhang , Chunyu Wang , Wenhu Qin , Wenjun Zeng

Radar-based human pose estimation enables privacy-preserving motion tracking for ambient intelligence, yet the noisy nature of radar sensing makes uncertainty quantification essential. We present RadProPoser, an end-to-end probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jonas Leo Mueller , Lukas Engel , Eva Dorschky , Daniel Krauss , Ingrid Ullmann , Martin Vossiek , Bjoern M. Eskofier

We introduce (HPS) Human POSEitioning System, a method to recover the full 3D pose of a human registered with a 3D scan of the surrounding environment using wearable sensors. Using IMUs attached at the body limbs and a head mounted camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Vladimir Guzov , Aymen Mir , Torsten Sattler , Gerard Pons-Moll

We propose a multi-sensor fusion method for capturing challenging 3D human motions with accurate consecutive local poses and global trajectories in large-scale scenarios, only using single LiDAR and 4 IMUs, which are set up conveniently and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yiming Ren , Chengfeng Zhao , Yannan He , Peishan Cong , Han Liang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu , Yuexin Ma

Inertial measurement units (IMUs) increasingly function as a basic component of wearable sensor network (WSN)systems. IMU-based joint angle estimation (JAE) is a relatively typical usage of IMUs, with extensive applications. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Chunzhi Yi , Feng Jiang , Baichun Wei , Chifu Yang , Zhen Ding , Jubo Jin , Jie Liu

This paper presents a novel approach for predicting human poses using IMU data, diverging from previous studies such as DIP-IMU, IMUPoser, and TransPose, which use up to 6 IMUs in conjunction with bidirectional RNNs. We introduce two main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Varun Ramani , Hossein Khayami , Yang Bai , Nakul Garg , Nirupam Roy

We present MovePose, an optimized lightweight convolutional neural network designed specifically for real-time body pose estimation on CPU-based mobile devices. The current solutions do not provide satisfactory accuracy and speed for human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Dongyang Yu , Haoyue Zhang , Ruisheng Zhao , Guoqi Chen , Wangpeng An , Yanhong Yang

Accurate whole-body multi-person pose estimation and tracking is an important yet challenging topic in computer vision. To capture the subtle actions of humans for complex behavior analysis, whole-body pose estimation including the face,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hao-Shu Fang , Jiefeng Li , Hongyang Tang , Chao Xu , Haoyi Zhu , Yuliang Xiu , Yong-Lu Li , Cewu Lu

Human pose estimation has given rise to a broad spectrum of novel and compelling applications, including action recognition, sports analysis, as well as surveillance. However, accurate video pose estimation remains an open challenge. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yingying Jiao , Zhigang Wang , Zhenguang Liu , Shaojing Fan , Sifan Wu , Zheqi Wu , Zhuoyue Xu

Human pose estimation faces hurdles in real-world applications due to factors like lighting changes, occlusions, and cluttered environments. We introduce a unique RGB-Thermal Nearly Paired and Annotated 2D Pose Dataset, comprising over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Avinash Upadhyay , Bhipanshu Dhupar , Manoj Sharma , Ankit Shukla , Ajith Abraham

In industrial countries, adults spend a considerable amount of time sedentary each day at work, driving and during activities of daily living. Characterizing the seated upper body human poses using mmWave radars is an important, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Bo Zhang , Zimeng Zhou , Boyu Jiang , Rong Zheng

Robots are increasingly present in our lives, sharing the workspace and tasks with human co-workers. However, existing interfaces for human-robot interaction / cooperation (HRI/C) have limited levels of intuitiveness to use and safety is a…

Human pose estimation has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, mainly due to the integration of deep learning models, the availability of a vast amount of data, and large computational resources. These developments have led…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Luis F. Gomez , Gonzalo Garrido-Lopez , Julian Fierrez , Aythami Morales , Ruben Tolosana , Javier Rueda , Enrique Navarro

Accurate 3D human pose estimation is essential for sports analytics, coaching, and injury prevention. However, existing datasets for monocular pose estimation do not adequately capture the challenging and dynamic nature of sports movements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Christian Keilstrup Ingwersen , Christian Mikkelstrup , Janus Nørtoft Jensen , Morten Rieger Hannemose , Anders Bjorholm Dahl

Accurate and physically feasible human motion prediction is crucial for safe and seamless human-robot collaboration. While recent advancements in human motion capture enable real-time pose estimation, the practical value of many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Cheng Guo , Giuseppe L'Erario , Giulio Romualdi , Mattia Leonori , Marta Lorenzini , Arash Ajoudani , Daniele Pucci

There exists a multitude of online video tutorials to teach physical movements such as exercises. Yet, users lack support to verify the accuracy of their movements when following such videos and have to rely on their own perception. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Atima Tharatipyakul , Kenny Choo , Simon T. Perrault