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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

The accuracy and robustness of 3D human pose estimation (HPE) are limited by 2D pose detection errors and 2D to 3D ill-posed challenges, which have drawn great attention to Multi-Hypothesis HPE research. Most existing MH-HPE methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Xianzhou Zeng , Hao Qin , Ming Kong , Luyuan Chen , Qiang Zhu

This paper addresses the challenge of 3D full-body human pose estimation from a monocular image sequence. Here, two cases are considered: (i) the image locations of the human joints are provided and (ii) the image locations of joints are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Xiaowei Zhou , Menglong Zhu , Spyridon Leonardos , Kosta Derpanis , Kostas Daniilidis

An accurate and uncertainty-aware 3D human body pose estimation is key to enabling truly safe but efficient human-robot interactions. Current uncertainty-aware methods in 3D human pose estimation are limited to predicting the uncertainty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Simon Schaefer , Dorian F. Henning , Stefan Leutenegger

We propose a method to generate multiple diverse and valid human pose hypotheses in 3D all consistent with the 2D detection of joints in a monocular RGB image. We use a novel generative model uniform (unbiased) in the space of anatomically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Ehsan Jahangiri , Alan L. Yuille

Human pose and shape estimation methods continue to suffer in situations where one or more parts of the body are occluded. More importantly, these methods cannot express when their predicted pose is incorrect. This has serious consequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Hamoon Jafarian , Faisal Z. Qureshi

We tackle the problem of Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) from a single RGB image, formulating it as an image-conditioned human pose and shape generation. While recovering 3D human pose from 2D observations is inherently ambiguous, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Donghwan Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

This paper addresses the problem of 3D human body shape and pose estimation from RGB images. Some recent approaches to this task predict probability distributions over human body model parameters conditioned on the input images. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Akash Sengupta , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

Recognition of human poses and actions is crucial for autonomous systems to interact smoothly with people. However, cameras generally capture human poses in 2D as images and videos, which can have significant appearance variations across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ting Liu , Jennifer J. Sun , Long Zhao , Jiaping Zhao , Liangzhe Yuan , Yuxiao Wang , Liang-Chieh Chen , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam

Automatic perception of human behaviors during social interactions is crucial for AR/VR applications, and an essential component is estimation of plausible 3D human pose and shape of our social partners from the egocentric view. One of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Siwei Zhang , Qianli Ma , Yan Zhang , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Siyu Tang

In this paper, we address the problem of estimating a 3D human pose from a single image, which is important but difficult to solve due to many reasons, such as self-occlusions, wild appearance changes, and inherent ambiguities of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Geonho Cha , Minsik Lee , Jungchan Cho , Songhwai Oh

Single image pose estimation is a fundamental problem in many vision and robotics tasks, and existing deep learning approaches suffer by not completely modeling and handling: i) uncertainty about the predictions, and ii) symmetric objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Kieran Murphy , Carlos Esteves , Varun Jampani , Srikumar Ramalingam , Ameesh Makadia

Monocular 3D human pose estimation is quite challenging due to the inherent ambiguity and occlusion, which often lead to high uncertainty and indeterminacy. On the other hand, diffusion models have recently emerged as an effective tool for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jia Gong , Lin Geng Foo , Zhipeng Fan , Qiuhong Ke , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

We consider the problem of obtaining dense 3D reconstructions of humans from single and partially occluded views. In such cases, the visual evidence is usually insufficient to identify a 3D reconstruction uniquely, so we aim at recovering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Benjamin Biggs , Sébastien Ehrhadt , Hanbyul Joo , Benjamin Graham , Andrea Vedaldi , David Novotny

Object pose estimation is a fundamental problem in robotics and computer vision, yet it remains challenging due to partial observability, occlusions, and object symmetries, which inevitably lead to pose ambiguity and multiple hypotheses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yufeng Jin , Niklas Funk , Vignesh Prasad , Zechu Li , Mathias Franzius , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Current unsupervised 2D-3D human pose estimation (HPE) methods do not work in multi-person scenarios due to perspective ambiguity in monocular images. Therefore, we present one of the first studies investigating the feasibility of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Peter Hardy , Hansung Kim

3D human pose estimation from a single image is still a challenging problem despite the large amount of work that has been performed in this field. Generally, most methods directly use neural networks and ignore certain constraints (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yicheng Deng , Cheng Sun , Yongqi Sun , Jiahui Zhu

Estimation of 3D human pose from monocular image has gained considerable attention, as a key step to several human-centric applications. However, generalizability of human pose estimation models developed using supervision on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Siddharth Seth , Rahul M , Mugalodi Rakesh , R. Venkatesh Babu , Anirban Chakraborty

3D human pose estimation involves reconstructing the human skeleton by detecting the body joints. Accurate and efficient solutions are required for several real-world applications including animation, human-robot interaction, surveillance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Ana Filipa Rodrigues Nogueira , Hélder P. Oliveira , Luís F. Teixeira

In this work, we address the problem of 3D human pose estimation from a sequence of 2D human poses. Although the recent success of deep networks has led many state-of-the-art methods for 3D pose estimation to train deep networks end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , James J. Little