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Three-dimensional (3D) human pose estimation using a monocular camera has gained increasing attention due to its ease of implementation and the abundance of data available from daily life. However, owing to the inherent depth ambiguity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Danqi Yan , Qing Gao , Yuepeng Qian , Xinxing Chen , Chenglong Fu , Yuquan Leng

Depth ambiguity and joint uncertainty are the two main obstacles in obtaining accurate human pose predictions by 2D-to-3D lifting methods proposed in the literature. In particular, these issues are caused by 2D joint locations that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Alessandro Simoni , Riccardo Catalini , Davide Di Nucci , Guido Borghi , Davide Davoli , Lorenzo Garattoni , Gianpiero Francesca , Yuki Kawana , Roberto Vezzani

Reconstructing two-hand interactions from a single image is a challenging problem due to ambiguities that stem from projective geometry and heavy occlusions. Existing methods are designed to estimate only a single pose, despite the fact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Jiayi Wang , Diogo Luvizon , Franziska Mueller , Florian Bernard , Adam Kortylewski , Dan Casas , Christian Theobalt

In this paper, a novel Diffusion-based 3D Pose estimation (D3DP) method with Joint-wise reProjection-based Multi-hypothesis Aggregation (JPMA) is proposed for probabilistic 3D human pose estimation. On the one hand, D3DP generates multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Wenkang Shan , Zhenhua Liu , Xinfeng Zhang , Zhao Wang , Kai Han , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Model-based approaches to 3D hand tracking have been shown to perform well in a wide range of scenarios. However, they require initialisation and cannot recover easily from tracking failures that occur due to fast hand motions. Data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Georg Poier , Konstantinos Roditakis , Samuel Schulter , Damien Michel , Horst Bischof , Antonis A. Argyros

Accurate 3D human pose estimation remains a critical yet unresolved challenge, requiring both temporal coherence across frames and fine-grained modeling of joint relationships. However, most existing methods rely solely on geometric cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jerrin Bright , Yuhao Chen , John S. Zelek

Monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE) often encounters challenges such as depth ambiguity and occlusion during the 2D-to-3D lifting process. Additionally, traditional methods may overlook multi-scale skeleton features when utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bing Han , Yuhua Huang , Pan Gao

We present a cascaded diffusion model based on a part-level implicit 3D representation. Our model achieves state-of-the-art generation quality and also enables part-level shape editing and manipulation without any additional training in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Juil Koo , Seungwoo Yoo , Minh Hieu Nguyen , Minhyuk Sung

Recent work has showcased the significant potential of diffusion models in pose-guided person image synthesis. However, owing to the inconsistency in pose between the source and target images, synthesizing an image with a distinct pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Fei Shen , Hu Ye , Jun Zhang , Cong Wang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang

Diffusion models have become a central tool in deep generative modeling, but standard formulations rely on a single network and a single diffusion schedule to transform a simple prior, typically a standard normal distribution, into the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Takuro Kutsuna

We present an innovative approach to 3D Human Pose Estimation (3D-HPE) by integrating cutting-edge diffusion models, which have revolutionized diverse fields, but are relatively unexplored in 3D-HPE. We show that diffusion models enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Cédric Rommel , Eduardo Valle , Mickaël Chen , Souhaiel Khalfaoui , Renaud Marlet , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

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

This work addresses the challenging problem of unconstrained 3D hand pose estimation using monocular RGB images. Most of the existing approaches assume some prior knowledge of hand (such as hand locations and side information) is available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Sanjeev Sharma , Shaoli Huang , Dacheng Tao

Recovering a 3D human mesh from a single RGB image is a challenging task due to depth ambiguity and self-occlusion, resulting in a high degree of uncertainty. Meanwhile, diffusion models have recently seen much success in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Lin Geng Foo , Jia Gong , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

We introduce PolyDiff, the first diffusion-based approach capable of directly generating realistic and diverse 3D polygonal meshes. In contrast to methods that use alternate 3D shape representations (e.g. implicit representations), our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Antonio Alliegro , Yawar Siddiqui , Tatiana Tommasi , Matthias Nießner

3D hand pose estimation is a fundamental task in understanding human hands. However, accurately estimating 3D hand poses remains challenging due to the complex movement of hands, self-similarity, and frequent occlusions. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lee Chae-Yeon , Nam Hyeon-Woo , Tae-Hyun Oh

Probabilistic denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have set a new standard for 2D image generation. Extending DDMs for 3D content creation is an active field of research. Here, we propose TetraDiffusion, a diffusion model that operates on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Nikolai Kalischek , Torben Peters , Jan D. Wegner , Konrad Schindler

In general, hand pose estimation aims to improve the robustness of model performance in the real-world scenes. However, it is difficult to enhance the robustness since existing datasets are obtained in restricted environments to annotate 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Bosang Kim , Jonghyun Kim , Hyotae Lee , Lanying Jin , Jeongwon Ha , Dowoo Kwon , Jungpyo Kim , Wonhyeok Im , KyungMin Jin , Jungho Lee

3D hand-mesh reconstruction from RGB images facilitates many applications, including augmented reality (AR). However, this requires not only real-time speed and accurate hand pose and shape but also plausible mesh-image alignment. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Xiao Tang , Tianyu Wang , Chi-Wing Fu

While hand pose estimation is a critical component of most interactive extended reality and gesture recognition systems, contemporary approaches are not optimized for computational and memory efficiency. In this paper, we propose a tiny…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 John Yang , Yash Bhalgat , Simyung Chang , Fatih Porikli , Nojun Kwak