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Human pose forecasting is an important problem in computer vision with applications to human-robot interaction, visual surveillance, and autonomous driving. Usually, forecasting algorithms use 3D skeleton sequences and are trained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Sam Toyer , Anoop Cherian , Tengda Han , Stephen Gould

Vision-based monocular human pose estimation, as one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in computer vision, aims to obtain posture of the human body from input images or video sequences. The recent developments of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Yucheng Chen , Yingli Tian , Mingyi He

3D human pose estimation from 2D images is a challenging problem due to depth ambiguity and occlusion. Because of these challenges the task is underdetermined, where there exists multiple -- possibly infinite -- poses that are plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Francis Snelgar , Ming Xu , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng , Akshay Asthana

In the era of deep learning, human pose estimation from multiple cameras with unknown calibration has received little attention to date. We show how to train a neural model to perform this task with high precision and minimal latency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ben Usman , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kate Saenko , Avneesh Sud

Most of the recent deep learning-based 3D human pose and mesh estimation methods regress the pose and shape parameters of human mesh models, such as SMPL and MANO, from an input image. The first weakness of these methods is an appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Hongsuk Choi , Gyeongsik Moon , Kyoung Mu Lee

Pose variation and subtle differences in appearance are key challenges to fine-grained classification. While deep networks have markedly improved general recognition, many approaches to fine-grained recognition rely on anchoring networks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Ning Zhang , Evan Shelhamer , Yang Gao , Trevor Darrell

We propose a CNN-based approach for multi-camera markerless motion capture of the human body. Unlike existing methods that first perform pose estimation on individual cameras and generate 3D models as post-processing, our approach makes use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Denis Tome , Matteo Toso , Lourdes Agapito , Chris Russell

Multi-face tracking in unconstrained videos is a challenging problem as faces of one person often appear drastically different in multiple shots due to significant variations in scale, pose, expression, illumination, and make-up. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Shun Zhang , Jia-Bin Huang , Jongwoo Lim , Yihong Gong , Jinjun Wang , Narendra Ahuja , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Category-level pose estimation is a challenging task with many potential applications in computer vision and robotics. Recently, deep-learning-based approaches have made great progress, but are typically hindered by the need for large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Pengyuan Wang , Takuya Ikeda , Robert Lee , Koichi Nishiwaki

Recently, a significant improvement in the accuracy of 3D human pose estimation has been achieved by combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with pyramid grid alignment feedback loops. Additionally, innovative breakthroughs have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zongyou Yang , Jonathan Loo , Yinghan Hou

Robust face detection is one of the most important pre-processing steps to support facial expression analysis, facial landmarking, face recognition, pose estimation, building of 3D facial models, etc. Although this topic has been intensely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Yutong Zheng , Chenchen Zhu , Khoa Luu , Chandrasekhar Bhagavatula , T. Hoang Ngan Le , Marios Savvides

Large-scale neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance in different domains like vision and language processing, although at the cost of massive computation resources. As illustrated by compression literature, structural model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Tianjin Huang , Fang Meng , Li Shen , Fan Liu , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen

Transformer architectures have become the model of choice in natural language processing and are now being introduced into computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. However, in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ce Zheng , Sijie Zhu , Matias Mendieta , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen , Zhengming Ding

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

This paper addresses the problem of multi-view people occupancy map estimation. Existing solutions for this problem either operate per-view, or rely on a background subtraction pre-processing. Both approaches lessen the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Tatjana Chavdarova , François Fleuret

This paper tackles the problem of human action recognition, defined as classifying which action is displayed in a trimmed sequence, from skeletal data. Albeit state-of-the-art approaches designed for this application are all supervised, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Giancarlo Paoletti , Jacopo Cavazza , Cigdem Beyan , Alessio Del Bue

Advancements in deep neural networks have contributed to near perfect results for many computer vision problems such as object recognition, face recognition and pose estimation. However, human action recognition is still far from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Asanka G. Perera , Yee Wei Law , Titilayo T. Ogunwa , Javaan Chahl

The growing scale of datasets in deep learning has introduced significant computational challenges. Dataset pruning addresses this challenge by constructing a compact but informative coreset from the full dataset with comparable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Furui Xu , Shaobo Wang , Jiajun Zhang , Chenghao Sun , Haixiang Tang , Linfeng Zhang

Head poses are a key component of human bodily communication and thus a decisive element of human-computer interaction. Real-time head pose estimation is crucial in the context of human-robot interaction or driver assistance systems. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Ines Rieger , Thomas Hauenstein , Sebastian Hettenkofer , Jens-Uwe Garbas

The "lifting from 2D pose" method has been the dominant approach to 3D Human Pose Estimation (3DHPE) due to the powerful visual analysis ability of 2D pose estimators. Widely known, there exists a depth ambiguity problem when estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Feng Zhou , Jianqin Yin , Peiyang Li