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Estimating the limbs pose in a wearable way may benefit multiple areas such as rehabilitation, teleoperation, human-robot interaction, gaming, and many more. Several solutions are commercially available, but they are usually expensive or…

Accurate and physically feasible human motion prediction is crucial for safe and seamless human-robot collaboration. While recent advancements in human motion capture enable real-time pose estimation, the practical value of many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Cheng Guo , Giuseppe L'Erario , Giulio Romualdi , Mattia Leonori , Marta Lorenzini , Arash Ajoudani , Daniele Pucci

The use of wearable technology for posture monitoring has been expanding due to its low-intrusiveness and compliance with daily use requirements. However, there are still open challenges limiting its widespread use, especially when dealing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Manuel Palermo , Sara Cerqueira , João André , António Pereira , Cristina P. Santos

Sparse wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) have gained popularity for estimating 3D human motion. However, challenges such as pose ambiguity, data drift, and limited adaptability to diverse bodies persist. To address these issues, we…

In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic calibration method for sparse inertial motion capture systems, which is the first to break the restrictive absolute static assumption in IMU calibration, i.e., the coordinate drift RG'G and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Chengxu Zuo , Jiawei Huang , Xiao Jiang , Yuan Yao , Xiangren Shi , Rui Cao , Xinyu Yi , Feng Xu , Shihui Guo , Yipeng Qin

Human motion capture is the foundation for many computer vision and graphics tasks. While industrial motion capture systems with complex camera arrays or expensive wearable sensors have been widely adopted in movie and game production,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xiaodong Chen , Wu Liu , Qian Bao , Xinchen Liu , Ruoli Dai , Yongdong Zhang , Tao Mei

Wearable sensors such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are often used to assess the performance of human exercise. Common approaches use handcrafted features based on domain expertise or automatically extracted features using time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ashish Singh , Antonio Bevilacqua , Timilehin B. Aderinola , Thach Le Nguyen , Darragh Whelan , Martin O'Reilly , Brian Caulfield , Georgiana Ifrim

Different technologies can acquire data for gait analysis, such as optical systems and inertial measurement units (IMUs). Each technology has its drawbacks and advantages, fitting best to particular applications. The presented multi-sensor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Geise Santos , Marcelo Wanderley , Tiago Tavares , Anderson Rocha

Recent advancements in visual-inertial motion capture systems have demonstrated the potential of combining monocular cameras with sparse inertial measurement units (IMUs) as cost-effective solutions, which effectively mitigate occlusion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tutian Tang , Xingyu Ji , Yutong Li , MingHao Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Cewu Lu

Either RGB images or inertial signals have been used for the task of motion capture (mocap), but combining them together is a new and interesting topic. We believe that the combination is complementary and able to solve the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Shaohua Pan , Qi Ma , Xinyu Yi , Weifeng Hu , Xiong Wang , Xingkang Zhou , Jijunnan Li , Feng Xu

Sparse Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) based human motion capture has gained significant momentum, driven by the adaptation of fundamental AI tools such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and transformers that are tailored for temporal…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhaorui Meng , Lu Yin , Yangqing Hou , Anjun Chen , Shihui Guo , Yipeng Qin

Wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) provide a cost-effective approach to assessing human movement in clinical and everyday environments. However, developing the associated classification models for robust assessment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andreas Spilz , Heiko Oppel , Jochen Werner , Kathrin Stucke-Straub , Felix Capanni , Michael Munz

We study the problem of estimating the body movements of a camera wearer from egocentric videos. Current methods for ego-body pose estimation rely on temporally dense sensor data, such as IMU measurements from spatially sparse body parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Seunggeun Chi , Pin-Hao Huang , Enna Sachdeva , Hengbo Ma , Karthik Ramani , Kwonjoon Lee

Full-body motion estimation of a human through wearable sensing technologies is challenging in the absence of position sensors. This paper contributes to the development of a model-based whole-body kinematics estimation algorithm using…

Despite researchers having extensively studied various ways to track body pose on-the-go, most prior work does not take into account wheelchair users, leading to poor tracking performance. Wheelchair users could greatly benefit from this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yunzhi Li , Vimal Mollyn , Kuang Yuan , Patrick Carrington

Human motion prediction and trajectory forecasting are essential in human motion analysis. Nowadays, sensors can be seamlessly integrated into clothing using cutting-edge electronic textile (e-textile) technology, allowing long-term…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Tianchen Shen , Irene Di Giulio , Matthew Howard

Motion capture is facing some new possibilities brought by the inertial sensing technologies which do not suffer from occlusion or wide-range recordings as vision-based solutions do. However, as the recorded signals are sparse and quite…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xinyu Yi , Yuxiao Zhou , Feng Xu

In recent years, tracking human motion using IMUs from everyday devices such as smartphones and smartwatches has gained increasing popularity. However, due to the sparsity of sensor measurements and the lack of datasets capturing human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Libo Zhang , Xinyu Yi , Feng Xu

Existing inertial motion capture techniques use the human root coordinate frame to estimate local poses and treat it as an inertial frame by default. We argue that when the root has linear acceleration or rotation, the root frame should be…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Xinyu Yi , Yuxiao Zhou , Feng Xu

Human activity recognition has become an attractive research area with the development of on-body wearable sensing technology. With comfortable electronic-textiles, sensors can be embedded into clothing so that it is possible to record…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Tianchen Shen , Irene Di Giulio , Matthew Howard