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The high frame rate is a critical requirement for capturing fast human motions. In this setting, existing markerless image-based methods are constrained by the lighting requirement, the high data bandwidth and the consequent high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Lan Xu , Weipeng Xu , Vladislav Golyanik , Marc Habermann , Lu Fang , Christian Theobalt

LiDAR-based 3D human motion capture has broad applications in fields such as autonomous driving and robotics, where accurate motion reconstruction is crucial. However, existing methods often struggle with unstable inputs and severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xiaoqi An , Lin Zhao , Jun Li , Chen Gong , Jian Yang

Multi-person total motion capture is extremely challenging when it comes to handle severe occlusions, different reconstruction granularities from body to face and hands, drastically changing observation scales and fast body movements. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yuxiang Zhang , Zhe Li , Liang An , Mengcheng Li , Tao Yu , Yebin Liu

We introduce an approach for detecting and tracking detailed 3D poses of multiple people from a single monocular camera stream. Our system maintains temporally coherent predictions in crowded scenes filled with difficult poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Alejandro Newell , Peiyun Hu , Lahav Lipson , Stephan R. Richter , Vladlen Koltun

We present a novel target-based lidar-camera extrinsic calibration methodology that can be used for non-overlapping field of view (FOV) sensors. Contrary to previous work, our methodology overcomes the non-overlapping FOV challenge using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Nicholas Charron , Huaiyuan Weng , Steven L. Waslander , Sriram Narasimhan

Multi-perspective cameras are quickly gaining importance in many applications such as smart vehicles and virtual or augmented reality. However, a large system size or absence of overlap in neighbouring fields-of-view often complicate their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Yifu Wang , Wenqing Jiang , Kun Huang , Sören Schwertfeger , Laurent Kneip

Combining sparse IMUs and a monocular camera is a new promising setting to perform real-time human motion capture. This paper proposes a diffusion-based solution to learn human motion priors and fuse the two modalities of signals together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Shaohua Pan , Xinyu Yi , Yan Zhou , Weihua Jian , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Feng Xu

Today's autonomous vehicles rely on a multitude of sensors to perceive their environment. To improve the perception or create redundancy, the sensor's alignment relative to each other must be known. With Multi-LiCa, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Dominik Kulmer , Ilir Tahiraj , Andrii Chumak , Markus Lienkamp

Marker-based motion capture (MoCap) systems have long been the gold standard for accurate 4D human modeling, yet their reliance on specialized hardware and markers limits scalability and real-world deployment. Advancing reliable markerless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yeeun Park , Miqdad Naduthodi , Suryansh Kumar

Many robotic tasks rely on the accurate localization of moving objects within a given workspace. This information about the objects' poses and velocities are used for control,motion planning, navigation, interaction with the environment or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Michael Neunert , Michael Bloesch , Jonas Buchli

Multiple cameras can provide comprehensive multi-view video coverage of a person. Fusing this multi-view data is crucial for tasks like behavioral analysis, although it traditionally requires camera calibration, a process that is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yitao Zhu , Sheng Wang , Mengjie Xu , Zixu Zhuang , Zhixin Wang , Kaidong Wang , Han Zhang , Qian Wang

Existing marker-less motion capture methods often assume known backgrounds, static cameras, and sequence specific motion priors, which narrows its application scenarios. Here we propose a fully automatic method that given multi-view video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Yinghao Huang , Federica Bogo , Christoph Lassner , Angjoo Kanazawa , Peter V. Gehler , Ijaz Akhter , Michael J. Black

3D human motion capture from monocular RGB images respecting interactions of a subject with complex and possibly deformable environments is a very challenging, ill-posed and under-explored problem. Existing methods address it only weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Zhi Li , Soshi Shimada , Bernt Schiele , Christian Theobalt , Vladislav Golyanik

We propose DeepMultiCap, a novel method for multi-person performance capture using sparse multi-view cameras. Our method can capture time varying surface details without the need of using pre-scanned template models. To tackle with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Yang Zheng , Ruizhi Shao , Yuxiang Zhang , Tao Yu , Zerong Zheng , Qionghai Dai , Yebin Liu

Human motion prediction is crucial for human-centric multimedia understanding and interacting. Current methods typically rely on ground truth human poses as observed input, which is not practical for real-world scenarios where only raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Xiao Han , Yiming Ren , Yichen Yao , Yujing Sun , Yuexin Ma

Camera calibration is a crucial step in photogrammetry and 3D vision applications. This paper introduces a novel camera calibration method using a designed collimator system. Our collimator system provides a reliable and controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shunkun Liang , Banglei Guan , Zhenbao Yu , Dongcai Tan , Pengju Sun , Zibin Liu , Qifeng Yu , Yang Shang

Estimating the 3D structure of the human body from natural scenes is a fundamental aspect of visual perception. 3D human pose estimation is a vital step in advancing fields like AIGC and human-robot interaction, serving as a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jiong Wang , Fengyu Yang , Wenbo Gou , Bingliang Li , Danqi Yan , Ailing Zeng , Yijun Gao , Junle Wang , Yanqing Jing , Ruimao Zhang

This paper presents a novel multi-modal Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) algorithm for self-driving cars that combines camera and LiDAR data. Camera frames are processed with a state-of-the-art 3D object detector, whereas classical clustering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Riccardo Pieroni , Simone Specchia , Matteo Corno , Sergio Matteo Savaresi

Although many studies have investigated markerless motion capture, the technology has not been applied to real sports or concerts. In this paper, we propose a markerless motion capture method with spatiotemporal accuracy and smoothness from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Takuya Ohashi , Yosuke Ikegami , Yoshihiko Nakamura

Commonly used human motion capture systems require intrusive attachment of markers that are visually tracked with multiple cameras. In this work we present an efficient and inexpensive solution to markerless motion capture using only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Alireza Shafaei , James J. Little