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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

Video 3D human pose estimation aims to localize the 3D coordinates of human joints from videos. Recent transformer-based approaches focus on capturing the spatiotemporal information from sequential 2D poses, which cannot model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Zhongwei Qiu , Qiansheng Yang , Jian Wang , Dongmei Fu

The quadratic computational cost of processing vision tokens in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) hinders their widespread adoption. While progressive vision token pruning offers a promising solution, current methods misinterpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hao Wu , Yingqi Fan , Jinyang Dai , Junlong Tong , Yunpu Ma , Xiaoyu Shen

Visual geometry transformers have become powerful architectures for multi-view 3D reconstruction, enabling joint prediction of multiple 3D attributes in a feed-forward manner. However, their computational cost grows quadratically with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shuhong Zheng , Michael Oechsle , Erik Sandström , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Federico Tombari , Igor Gilitschenski

The Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) marks a significant leap forward in 3D scene reconstruction, as it is the first model that directly infers all key 3D attributes (camera poses, depths, and dense geometry) jointly in one pass.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Weitian Wang , Lukas Meiner , Rai Shubham , Cecilia De La Parra , Akash Kumar

Vision Transformers (ViTs) deliver state-of-the-art accuracy but their quadratic attention cost and redundant computations severely hinder deployment on latency and resource-constrained platforms. Existing pruning approaches treat either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mohammad Helal Uddin , Liam Seymour , Sabur Baidya

Video-based 3D human pose and shape estimations are evaluated by intra-frame accuracy and inter-frame smoothness. Although these two metrics are responsible for different ranges of temporal consistency, existing state-of-the-art methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xiaolong Shen , Zongxin Yang , Xiaohan Wang , Jianxin Ma , Chang Zhou , Yi Yang

While head-mounted devices are becoming more compact, they provide egocentric views with significant self-occlusions of the device user. Hence, existing methods often fail to accurately estimate complex 3D poses from egocentric views. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Hiroyasu Akada , Jian Wang , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt

Depth and ego-motion estimations are essential for the localization and navigation of autonomous robots and autonomous driving. Recent studies make it possible to learn the per-pixel depth and ego-motion from the unlabeled monocular video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Jiquan Zhong , Shijie Zhao , Wenhua Wu , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Multi-frame human pose estimation in complicated situations is challenging. Although state-of-the-art human joints detectors have demonstrated remarkable results for static images, their performances come short when we apply these models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Zhenguang Liu , Haoming Chen , Runyang Feng , Shuang Wu , Shouling Ji , Bailin Yang , Xun Wang

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in 2D human pose estimation due to their strong global modeling capability. However, existing ViT-based pose estimators are designed for static images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hongwei Fang , Jiahang Cai , Xun Wang , Wenwu Yang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) have led to significant progress in 2D body pose estimation. However, achieving a good balance between accuracy, efficiency, and robustness remains a challenge. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Kaleab A. Kinfu , René Vidal

We address the problem of regressing 3D human pose and shape from a single image, with a focus on 3D accuracy. The current best methods leverage large datasets of 3D pseudo-ground-truth (p-GT) and 2D keypoints, leading to robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sai Kumar Dwivedi , Yu Sun , Priyanka Patel , Yao Feng , Michael J. Black

Human pose estimation is a challenging task due to its structured data sequence nature. Existing methods primarily focus on pair-wise interaction of body joints, which is insufficient for scenarios involving overlapping joints and rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Hanyuan Chen , Jun-Yan He , Wangmeng Xiang , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Wei Liu , Hanbing Liu , Bin Luo , Yifeng Geng , Xuansong Xie

Since its inception, Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a prevalent model in the computer vision domain. Nonetheless, the multi-head self-attention (MHSA) mechanism in ViT is computationally expensive due to its calculation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhe Bian , Zhe Wang , Wenqiang Han , Kangping Wang

The state-of-the-art for monocular 3D human pose estimation in videos is dominated by the paradigm of 2D-to-3D pose uplifting. While the uplifting methods themselves are rather efficient, the true computational complexity depends on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Moritz Einfalt , Katja Ludwig , Rainer Lienhart

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance in computer vision, but their high computational cost, quadratic in the number of tokens, limits their adoption in computation-constrained applications. However, this large number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yifei Liu , Mathias Gehrig , Nico Messikommer , Marco Cannici , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper presents Volumetric Transformer Pose estimator (VTP), the first 3D volumetric transformer framework for multi-view multi-person 3D human pose estimation. VTP aggregates features from 2D keypoints in all camera views and directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yuxing Chen , Renshu Gu , Ouhan Huang , Gangyong Jia

Recently, the vision transformer has achieved great success by pushing the state-of-the-art of various vision tasks. One of the most challenging problems in the vision transformer is that the large sequence length of image tokens leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Yu-Huan Wu , Yun Liu , Xin Zhan , Ming-Ming Cheng