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Real-time multi-person pose estimation presents significant challenges in balancing speed and precision. While two-stage top-down methods slow down as the number of people in the image increases, existing one-stage methods often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Peng Lu , Tao Jiang , Yining Li , Xiangtai Li , Kai Chen , Wenming Yang

Video-based human pose estimation models aim to address scenarios that cannot be effectively solved by static image models such as motion blur, out-of-focus and occlusion. Most existing approaches consist of two stages: detecting human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhihong Wei

We propose a sparse end-to-end multi-person pose regression framework, termed QueryPose, which can directly predict multi-person keypoint sequences from the input image. The existing end-to-end methods rely on dense representations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Yabo Xiao , Kai Su , Xiaojuan Wang , Dongdong Yu , Lei Jin , Mingshu He , Zehuan Yuan

Multi-person pose estimation methods generally follow top-down and bottom-up paradigms, both of which can be considered as two-stage approaches thus leading to the high computation cost and low efficiency. Towards a compact and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yabo Xiao , Xiaojuan Wang , Dongdong Yu , Guoli Wang , Qian Zhang , Mingshu He

In this work, we aim to improve the 3D reasoning ability of Transformers in multi-view 3D human pose estimation. Recent works have focused on end-to-end learning-based transformer designs, which struggle to resolve geometric information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ziwei Liao , Jialiang Zhu , Chunyu Wang , Han Hu , Steven L. Waslander

We propose a direct, regression-based approach to 2D human pose estimation from single images. We formulate the problem as a sequence prediction task, which we solve using a Transformer network. This network directly learns a regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Weian Mao , Yongtao Ge , Chunhua Shen , Zhi Tian , Xinlong Wang , Zhibin Wang , Anton van den Hengel

We present D-PoSE (Depth as an Intermediate Representation for 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation), a one-stage method that estimates human pose and SMPL-X shape parameters from a single RGB image. Recent works use larger models with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Nikolaos Vasilikopoulos , Drosakis Drosakis , Antonis Argyros

We present MVTOP, a novel transformer-based method for multi-view rigid object pose estimation. Through an early fusion of the view-specific features, our method can resolve pose ambiguities that would be impossible to solve with a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lukas Ranftl , Felix Brendel , Bertram Drost , Carsten Steger

We rethink a well-know bottom-up approach for multi-person pose estimation and propose an improved one. The improved approach surpasses the baseline significantly thanks to (1) an intuitional yet more sensible representation, which we refer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jia Li , Wen Su , Zengfu Wang

The objective of this work is human pose estimation in videos, where multiple frames are available. We investigate a ConvNet architecture that is able to benefit from temporal context by combining information across the multiple frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Tomas Pfister , James Charles , Andrew Zisserman

We propose a novel method for joint estimation of shape and pose of rigid objects from their sequentially observed RGB-D images. In sharp contrast to past approaches that rely on complex non-linear optimization, we propose to formulate it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yuta Yoshitake , Mai Nishimura , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

Camera pose estimation or camera relocalization is the centerpiece in numerous computer vision tasks such as visual odometry, structure from motion (SfM) and SLAM. In this paper we propose a neural network approach with a graph transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xinyi Li , Haibin Ling

We introduce a Transformer based 6D Object Pose Estimation framework VideoPose, comprising an end-to-end attention based modelling architecture, that attends to previous frames in order to estimate accurate 6D Object Poses in videos. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Apoorva Beedu , Huda Alamri , Irfan Essa

Category-level object pose estimation aims to predict the pose and size of arbitrary objects in specific categories. Existing methods struggle with the inherent incompleteness of observed point clouds, which limits their ability to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Huan Ren , Yihan Chen , Chuxin Wang , Nailong Liu , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang

Existing multi-person video pose estimation methods typically adopt a two-stage pipeline: detecting individuals in each frame, followed by temporal modeling for single person pose estimation. This design relies on heuristic operations such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yonghui Yu , Jiahang Cai , Xun Wang , Wenwu Yang

In the current state of 6D pose estimation, top-performing techniques depend on complex intermediate correspondences, specialized architectures, and non-end-to-end algorithms. In contrast, our research reframes the problem as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Sebastian Stapf , Tobias Bauernfeind , Marco Riboldi

Both accuracy and efficiency are significant for pose estimation and tracking in videos. State-of-the-art performance is dominated by two-stages top-down methods. Despite the leading results, these methods are impractical for real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Jiabin Zhang , Zheng Zhu , Wei Zou , Peng Li , Yanwei Li , Hu Su , Guan Huang

Human pose estimation aims to figure out the keypoints of all people in different scenes. Current approaches still face some challenges despite promising results. Existing top-down methods deal with a single person individually, without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Shuaitao Zhao , Kun Liu , Yuhang Huang , Qian Bao , Dan Zeng , Wu Liu

Transformer is popular in recent 3D human pose estimation, which utilizes long-term modeling to lift 2D keypoints into the 3D space. However, current transformer-based methods do not fully exploit the prior knowledge of the human skeleton…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Yaqi Zhang , Yan Lu , Bin Liu , Zhiwei Zhao , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

Frequent interactions between individuals are a fundamental challenge for pose estimation algorithms. Current pipelines either use an object detector together with a pose estimator (top-down approach), or localize all body parts first and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Mu Zhou , Lucas Stoffl , Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis , Alexander Mathis