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3D human pose estimation has wide applications in fields such as intelligent surveillance, motion capture, and virtual reality. However, in real-world scenarios, issues such as occlusion, noise interference, and missing viewpoints can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jianbin Jiao , Xina Cheng , Kailun Yang , Xiangrong Zhang , Licheng Jiao

Human pose estimation (HPE) with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for indoor monitoring is one of the major challenges in computer vision. In contrast to HPE in perspective views, an indoor monitoring system can consist of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jingrui Yu , Tobias Scheck , Roman Seidel , Yukti Adya , Dipankar Nandi , Gangolf Hirtz

The performance of human pose estimation depends on the spatial accuracy of keypoint localization. Most existing methods pursue the spatial accuracy through learning the high-resolution (HR) representation from input images. By the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Hanbin Dai , Hailin Shi , Wu Liu , Linfang Wang , Yinglu Liu , Tao Mei

The phenomenon of Human Pose Estimation (HPE) is a problem that has been explored over the years, particularly in computer vision. But what exactly is it? To answer this, the concept of a pose must first be understood. Pose can be defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Rohit Josyula , Sarah Ostadabbas

Monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE) methods estimate the 3D positions of joints from individual images. Existing 3D HPE approaches often use the cropped image alone as input for their models. However, the relative depths of joints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiaoyang Hao , Han Li

We develop a robust multi-scale structure-aware neural network for human pose estimation. This method improves the recent deep conv-deconv hourglass models with four key improvements: (1) multi-scale supervision to strengthen contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Lipeng Ke , Ming-Ching Chang , Honggang Qi , Siwei Lyu

Human pose estimation has been widely studied with much focus on supervised learning requiring sufficient annotations. However, in real applications, a pretrained pose estimation model usually need be adapted to a novel domain with no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Xixia Xu , Qi Zou , Xue Lin

Monocular 3D human pose estimation from RGB images has attracted significant attention in recent years. However, recent models depend on supervised training with 3D pose ground truth data or known pose priors for their target domains. 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Shuangjun Liu , Michael Wan , Sarah Ostadabbas

In recent years, 2D-to-3D pose uplifting in monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation (HPE) has attracted widespread research interest. GNN-based methods and Transformer-based methods have become mainstream architectures due to their advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Mengmeng Cui , Kunbo Zhang , Zhenan Sun

Recent approaches for monocular 3D human pose estimation (3D HPE) have achieved leading performance by directly regressing 3D poses from 2D keypoint sequences. Despite the rapid progress in 3D HPE, existing methods are typically trained and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Qingyuan Cai , Linxin Zhang , Xuecai Hu , Saihui Hou , Yongzhen Huang

Dense human pose estimation is the problem of learning dense correspondences between RGB images and the surfaces of human bodies, which finds various applications, such as human body reconstruction, human pose transfer, and human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Liqian Ma , Lingjie Liu , Christian Theobalt , Luc Van Gool

Despite recent advances in human pose estimation (HPE), poor generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) data remains a difficult problem. While previous works have proposed Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) to bridge the train-test domain gap by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Luke Bidulka , Mohsen Gholami , Jiannan Zheng , Martin J. McKeown , Z. Jane Wang

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

Human pose estimation is fundamental to intelligent perception in the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling applications ranging from smart healthcare to human-computer interaction. While WiFi-based methods have gained traction, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yi Dao , Lankai Zhang , Hao Liu , Haiwei Zhang , Wenbo Wang

Bottom-up human pose estimation methods have difficulties in predicting the correct pose for small persons due to challenges in scale variation. In this paper, we present HigherHRNet: a novel bottom-up human pose estimation method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Bowen Cheng , Bin Xiao , Jingdong Wang , Honghui Shi , Thomas S. Huang , Lei Zhang

3D Human Pose Estimation (3D HPE) is vital in various applications, from person re-identification and action recognition to virtual reality. However, the reliance on annotated 3D data collected in controlled environments poses challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Qucheng Peng , Hongfei Xue , Pu Wang , Chen Chen

Despite recent success on 2D human pose estimation, 3D human pose estimation still remains an open problem. A key challenge is the ill-posed depth ambiguity nature. This paper presents a novel intermediate feature representation named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Qingfu Wan , Wei Zhang , Xiangyang Xue

One of the mainstream schemes for 2D human pose estimation (HPE) is learning keypoints heatmaps by a neural network. Existing methods typically improve the quality of heatmaps by customized architectures, such as high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Zhongwei Qiu , Qiansheng Yang , Jian Wang , Xiyu Wang , Chang Xu , Dongmei Fu , Kun Yao , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

This paper presents a lightweight network for head pose estimation (HPE) task. While previous approaches rely on convolutional neural networks, the proposed network \textit{LwPosr} uses mixture of depthwise separable convolutional (DSC) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Naina Dhingra

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