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Keypoint detection is one of the most important pre-processing steps in tasks such as face modeling, recognition and verification. In this paper, we present an iterative method for Keypoint Estimation and Pose prediction of unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Amit Kumar , Azadeh Alavi , Rama Chellappa

Modeling crowd behavior relies on accurate data of pedestrian movements at a high level of detail. Imaging sensors such as cameras provide a good basis for capturing such detailed pedestrian motion data. However, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-11 Stefan Seer , Norbert Brändle , Carlo Ratti

3D landmark detection plays a pivotal role in various applications such as 3D registration, pose estimation, and virtual try-on. While considerable success has been achieved in 2D human landmark detection or pose estimation, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Fan Zhang , Shuyi Mao , Qing Li , Xiaojiang Peng

In this paper, we introduce a new large-scale face database from KIST, denoted as K-FACE, and describe a novel capturing device specifically designed to obtain the data. The K-FACE database contains more than 1 million high-quality images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yeji Choi , Hyunjung Park , Gi Pyo Nam , Haksub Kim , Heeseung Choi , Junghyun Cho , Ig-Jae Kim

The target of 2D human pose estimation is to locate the keypoints of body parts from input 2D images. State-of-the-art methods for pose estimation usually construct pixel-wise heatmaps from keypoints as labels for learning convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Kun Zhang , Rui Wu , Ping Yao , Kai Deng , Ding Li , Renbiao Liu , Chuanguang Yang , Ge Chen , Min Du , Tianyao Zheng

Estimating the 3D pose of desktop objects is crucial for applications such as robotic manipulation. Many existing approaches to this problem require a depth map of the object for both training and prediction, which restricts them to opaque,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Xingyu Liu , Rico Jonschkowski , Anelia Angelova , Kurt Konolige

Reconstructing 3D poses from 2D poses lacking depth information is particularly challenging due to the complexity and diversity of human motion. The key is to effectively model the spatial constraints between joints to leverage their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Hongbo Kang , Yong Wang , Mengyuan Liu , Doudou Wu , Peng Liu , Wenming Yang

Analyzing and training 3D body posture models depend heavily on the availability of joint labels that are commonly acquired through laborious manual annotation of body joints or via marker-based joint localization using carefully curated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Sina Honari , Chen Zhao , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Human pose estimation methods work well on isolated people but struggle with multiple-bodies-in-proximity scenarios. Previous work has addressed this problem by conditioning pose estimation by detected bounding boxes or keypoints, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Miroslav Purkrabek , Jiri Matas

Most existing human pose estimation (HPE) methods exploit multi-scale information by fusing feature maps of four different spatial sizes, \ie $1/4$, $1/8$, $1/16$, and $1/32$ of the input image. There are two drawbacks of this strategy: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Zhengxiong Luo , Zhicheng Wang , Yan Huang , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan , Erjin Zhou

The topic of multi-person pose estimation has been largely improved recently, especially with the development of convolutional neural network. However, there still exist a lot of challenging cases, such as occluded keypoints, invisible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yilun Chen , Zhicheng Wang , Yuxiang Peng , Zhiqiang Zhang , Gang Yu , Jian Sun

Articulated hand pose estimation plays an important role in human-computer interaction. Despite the recent progress, the accuracy of existing methods is still not satisfactory, partially due to the difficulty of embedded high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Liuhao Ge , Hui Liang , Junsong Yuan , Daniel Thalmann

We observe that human poses exhibit strong group-wise structural correlation and spatial coupling between keypoints due to the biological constraints of different body parts. This group-wise structural correlation can be explored to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Zhehan Kan , Shuoshuo Chen , Zeng Li , Zhihai He

High-resolution 3D point clouds are highly effective for detecting subtle structural anomalies in industrial inspection. However, their dense and irregular nature imposes significant challenges, including high computational cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zi Wang , Katsuya Hotta , Koichiro Kamide , Yawen Zou , Chao Zhang , Jun Yu

Event cameras, often referred to as dynamic vision sensors, are groundbreaking sensors capable of capturing changes in light intensity asynchronously, offering exceptional temporal resolution and energy efficiency. These attributes make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Mira Adra , Simone Melcarne , Nelida Mirabet-Herranz , Jean-Luc Dugelay

Accurate uncertainty estimation associated with the pose transformation between two 3D point clouds is critical for autonomous navigation, grasping, and data fusion. Iterative closest point (ICP) is widely used to estimate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Fahira Afzal Maken , Fabio Ramos , Lionel Ott

Human pose estimators are typically retrained from scratch or naively fine-tuned whenever keypoint sets, sensing modalities, or deployment domains change--an inefficient, compute-intensive practice that rarely matches field constraints. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan , Didier Stricker

We present a deep learning-based multitask framework for joint 3D human pose estimation and action recognition from RGB video sequences. Our approach proceeds along two stages. In the first, we run a real-time 2D pose detector to determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Huy Hieu Pham , Houssam Salmane , Louahdi Khoudour , Alain Crouzil , Pablo Zegers , Sergio A Velastin

Euclidean distance matrices (EDMs) are a major tool for localization from distances, with applications ranging from protein structure determination to global positioning and manifold learning. They are, however, static objects which serve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Puoya Tabaghi , Ivan Dokmanić , Martin Vetterli

Markerless estimation of 3D Kinematics has the great potential to clinically diagnose and monitor movement disorders without referrals to expensive motion capture labs; however, current approaches are limited by performing multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Marian Bittner , Wei-Tse Yang , Xucong Zhang , Ajay Seth , Jan van Gemert , Frans C. T. van der Helm