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We present STaR, a novel method that performs Self-supervised Tracking and Reconstruction of dynamic scenes with rigid motion from multi-view RGB videos without any manual annotation. Recent work has shown that neural networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Wentao Yuan , Zhaoyang Lv , Tanner Schmidt , Steven Lovegrove

While deep learning reshaped the classical motion capture pipeline with feed-forward networks, generative models are required to recover fine alignment via iterative refinement. Unfortunately, the existing models are usually hand-crafted or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Shih-Yang Su , Frank Yu , Michael Zollhoefer , Helge Rhodin

Robot grasping of desktop object is widely used in intelligent manufacturing, logistics, and agriculture.Although vision-language models (VLMs) show strong potential for robotic manipulation, their deployment in low-level grasping faces key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yiran Ling , Wenxuan Li , Siying Dong , Yize Zhang , Xiaoyao Huang , Jing Jiang , Ruonan Li , Jie Liu

3D Reconstruction of moving articulated objects without additional information about object structure is a challenging problem. Current methods overcome such challenges by employing category-specific skeletal models. Consequently, they do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Hao Zhang , Fang Li , Samyak Rawlekar , Narendra Ahuja

Human bodies exhibit various shapes for different identities or poses, but the body shape has certain similarities in structure and thus can be embedded in a low-dimensional space. This paper presents an autoencoder-like network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Boyi Jiang , Juyong Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Jianmin Zheng

Dynamic scene reconstruction from casual videos has seen recent remarkable progress. Numerous approaches have attempted to overcome the ill-posedness of the task by distilling priors from 2D foundational models and by imposing hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Narek Tumanyan , Samuel Rota Bulò , Denis Rozumny , Lorenzo Porzi , Adam Harley , Tali Dekel , Peter Kontschieder , Jonathon Luiten

Synthesizing interaction-involved human motions has been challenging due to the high complexity of 3D environments and the diversity of possible human behaviors within. We present LAMA, Locomotion-Action-MAnipulation, to synthesize natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Jiye Lee , Hanbyul Joo

Markerless motion capture algorithms require a 3D body with properly personalized skeleton dimension and/or body shape and appearance to successfully track a person. Unfortunately, many tracking methods consider model personalization a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Helge Rhodin , Nadia Robertini , Dan Casas , Christian Richardt , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

Are camera poses necessary for multi-view 3D modeling? Existing approaches predominantly assume access to accurate camera poses. While this assumption might hold for dense views, accurately estimating camera poses for sparse views is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Hanwen Jiang , Zhenyu Jiang , Yue Zhao , Qixing Huang

Efficient representation of articulated objects such as human bodies is an important problem in computer vision and graphics. To efficiently simulate deformation, existing approaches represent 3D objects using polygonal meshes and deform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Boyang Deng , JP Lewis , Timothy Jeruzalski , Gerard Pons-Moll , Geoffrey Hinton , Mohammad Norouzi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

Neural fields have revolutionized the area of 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis of rigid scenes. A key challenge in making such methods applicable to articulated objects, such as the human body, is to model the deformation of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xu Chen , Tianjian Jiang , Jie Song , Max Rietmann , Andreas Geiger , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

We propose a novel algorithm for the fitting of 3D human shape to images. Combining the accuracy and refinement capabilities of iterative gradient-based optimization techniques with the robustness of deep neural networks, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Jie Song , Xu Chen , Otmar Hilliges

Analyzing human motion is a challenging task with a wide variety of applications in computer vision and in graphics. One such application, of particular importance in computer animation, is the retargeting of motion from one performer to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Kfir Aberman , Rundi Wu , Dani Lischinski , Baoquan Chen , Daniel Cohen-Or

Reconstructing 3D human shape and pose from monocular images is challenging despite the promising results achieved by the most recent learning-based methods. The commonly occurred misalignment comes from the facts that the mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Hongwen Zhang , Jie Cao , Guo Lu , Wanli Ouyang , Zhenan Sun

Discrete-time modeling of acoustic, mechanical and electrical systems is a prominent topic in the musical signal processing literature. Such models are mostly derived by discretizing a mathematical model, given in terms of ordinary or…

We present a principled method for motion prediction via dynamic simulation for rigid bodies in intermittent contact with each other where the contact region is a planar non-convex contact patch. Such methods are useful in planning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Jiayin Xie , Nilanjan Chakraborty

The goal of many computer vision systems is to transform image pixels into 3D representations. Recent popular models use neural networks to regress directly from pixels to 3D object parameters. Such an approach works well when supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Nadine Rueegg , Christoph Lassner , Michael J. Black , Konrad Schindler

This paper considers the problem of modeling articulated objects captured in 2D videos to enable novel view synthesis, while also being easily editable, drivable, and re-posable. To tackle this challenging problem, we propose RigGS, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yuxin Yao , Zhi Deng , Junhui Hou

In this paper, we propose a pose grammar to tackle the problem of 3D human pose estimation. Our model directly takes 2D pose as input and learns a generalized 2D-3D mapping function. The proposed model consists of a base network which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Haoshu Fang , Yuanlu Xu , Wenguan Wang , Xiaobai Liu , Song-Chun Zhu

Machine learning has become increasingly popular for efficiently modelling the dynamics of complex physical systems, demonstrating a capability to learn effective models for dynamics which ignore redundant degrees of freedom. Learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ameya Daigavane , Arthur Kosmala , Miles Cranmer , Tess Smidt , Shirley Ho