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It is especially challenging to achieve real-time human motion tracking on a standalone VR Head-Mounted Display (HMD) such as Meta Quest and PICO. In this paper, we propose HMD-Poser, the first unified approach to recover full-body motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Peng Dai , Yang Zhang , Tao Liu , Zhen Fan , Tianyuan Du , Zhuo Su , Xiaozheng Zheng , Zeming Li

We propose a multi-sensor fusion method for capturing challenging 3D human motions with accurate consecutive local poses and global trajectories in large-scale scenarios, only using single LiDAR and 4 IMUs, which are set up conveniently and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yiming Ren , Chengfeng Zhao , Yannan He , Peishan Cong , Han Liang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu , Yuexin Ma

Monocular egocentric human pose estimation is essential for ubiquitous activity monitoring. However, understanding the user's absolute location within the environment remains a challenge. Existing methods primarily focus on relative motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hiroyuki Deguchi , Ryosuke Hori , Kotaro Amaya , Tsubasa Maruyama , Mitsunori Tada , Hideo Saito

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the attitude of a rigid body, which is subject to high accelerations and equipped with inertial measurement unit (IMU) and sensors providing the body velocity (expressed in the reference frame…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Mehdi Benallegue , Abdelaziz Benallegue , Rafael Cisneros , Yacine Chitour

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) to assess human motion in sports, rehabilitation or work safety requires accurate sensing without compromising the sensitive underlying personal data. Therefore, local processing is necessary and the limited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Iris Fürst-Walter , Antonio Nappi , Tanja Harbaum , Jürgen Becker

The goal of creating intelligent, human-centered wearable systems for continuous activity understanding faces a fundamental trade-off: Egocentric video-based models capture rich semantic information and have demonstrated strong performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Baiyu Chen , Wilson Wongso , Zechen Li , Yonchanok Khaokaew , Hao Xue , Flora Salim

Leveraging wearable devices for motion reconstruction has emerged as an economical and viable technique. Certain methodologies employ sparse Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) on the human body and harness data-driven strategies to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xueyuan Yang , Chao Yao , Xiaojuan Ban

MEMS Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) as ubiquitous proprioceptive motion measurement devices are available on various everyday gadgets and robotic platforms. Nevertheless, the direct inference of geometrical transformations or odometry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 R. Khorrambakht , H. Damirchi , H. D. Taghirad

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition facilitates unobtrusive monitoring of human movements. However, determining the most effective sensor placement for optimal classification performance remains challenging. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Orhan Konak , Alexander Wischmann , Robin van de Water , Bert Arnrich

We present IMU2Face, a gesture-driven facial reenactment system. To this end, we combine recent advances in facial motion capture and inertial measurement units (IMUs) to control the facial expressions of a person in a target video based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Justus Thies , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner

Advances in machine learning and wearable sensors offer new opportunities for capturing and analyzing human movement outside specialized laboratories. Accurate assessment of human movement under real-world conditions is essential for…

The flexibility and range of motion in human hands play a crucial role in human interaction with the environment and have been studied across different fields. Researchers explored various technological solutions for gathering information…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Alessandro Carfì , Mohamad Alameh , Valerio Belcamino , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

The data scarcity problem is a crucial factor that hampers the model performance of IMU-based human motion capture. However, effective data augmentation for IMU-based motion capture is challenging, since it has to capture the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhuojun Li , Chun Yu , Chen Liang , Yuanchun Shi

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) has long been a dream for stable and reliable motion estimation, especially in indoor environments where GPS strength limits. In this paper, we propose a novel method for position and orientation estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Yingying Wang , Hu Cheng , Max Q. H. Meng

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors are widely employed for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) due to their portability, energy efficiency, and growing research interest. However, a significant challenge for IMU-HAR models is achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qi Qiu , Tao Zhu , Furong Duan , Kevin I-Kai Wang , Liming Chen , Mingxing Nie , Mingxing Nie

Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) enable portable, multibody motion capture (MoCap) in diverse environments beyond the laboratory, making them a practical choice for diagnosing mobility disorders and supporting rehabilitation in clinical or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hassan Osman , Daan de Kanter , Jelle Boelens , Manon Kok , Ajay Seth

The ability to track a user's arm pose could be valuable in a wide range of applications, including fitness, rehabilitation, augmented reality input, life logging, and context-aware assistants. Unfortunately, this capability is not readily…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Nathan DeVrio , Vimal Mollyn , Chris Harrison

Accurate and reliable estimation of biases of low-cost Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) is a key factor to maintain the resilience of Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), particularly when visual tracking fails in challenging areas. In such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yang Yi , Kunqing Wang , Jinpu Zhang , Zhen Tan , Xiangke Wang , Hui Shen , Dewen Hu

The ability to sense, localize, and estimate the 3D position and orientation of the human body is critical in virtual reality (VR) and extended reality (XR) applications. This becomes more important and challenging with the deployment of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Nguyen Quang Hieu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Mohammad Abu Alsheikh

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable devices such as smart watches embedded with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors has various applications relevant to our daily life, such as workout tracking and health monitoring. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Wenjin Tao , Haodong Chen , Md Moniruzzaman , Ming C. Leu , Zhaozheng Yi , Ruwen Qin