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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

Hand pose estimation from a single image has many applications. However, approaches to full 3D body pose estimation are typically trained on day-to-day activities or actions. As such, detailed hand-to-hand interactions are poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Maksym Ivashechkin , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

Recovering 3D human poses from a monocular camera view is a highly ill-posed problem due to the depth ambiguity. Earlier studies on 3D human pose lifting from 2D often contain incorrect-yet-overconfident 3D estimations. To mitigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cuong Le , Pavlo Melnyk , Bastian Wandt , Mårten Wadenbäck

In this paper, we address the problem of estimating a 3D human pose from a single image, which is important but difficult to solve due to many reasons, such as self-occlusions, wild appearance changes, and inherent ambiguities of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Geonho Cha , Minsik Lee , Jungchan Cho , Songhwai Oh

Monocular 3D human pose estimation remains a challenging task due to inherent depth ambiguities and occlusions. Compared to traditional methods based on Transformers or Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), recent diffusion-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoxin Yang , Weihong Chen , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Peng Xiao , Cuifeng Sun , Shaoyu Huang , Shengfeng He

Monocular 3D pose estimation is fundamentally ill-posed due to depth ambiguity and occlusions, thereby motivating probabilistic methods that generate multiple plausible 3D pose hypotheses. In particular, diffusion-based models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ti Wang , Xiaohang Yu , Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis

Estimating the pose of objects from images is a crucial task of 3D scene understanding, and recent approaches have shown promising results on very large benchmarks. However, these methods experience a significant performance drop when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Tianfu Wang , Guosheng Hu , Hongguang Wang

After many researchers observed fruitfulness from the recent diffusion probabilistic model, its effectiveness in image generation is actively studied these days. In this paper, our objective is to evaluate the potential of diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Hyemin Ahn , Esteve Valls Mascaro , Dongheui Lee

Extracting keypoint locations from input hand frames, known as 3D hand pose estimation, is a critical task in various human-computer interaction applications. Essentially, the 3D hand pose estimation can be regarded as a 3D point subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Wencan Cheng , Hao Tang , Luc Van Gool , Jong Hwan Ko

We propose a viewpoint invariant model for 3D human pose estimation from a single depth image. To achieve this, our discriminative model embeds local regions into a learned viewpoint invariant feature space. Formulated as a multi-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Albert Haque , Boya Peng , Zelun Luo , Alexandre Alahi , Serena Yeung , Li Fei-Fei

Recent approaches for monocular 3D human pose estimation (3D HPE) have achieved leading performance by directly regressing 3D poses from 2D keypoint sequences. Despite the rapid progress in 3D HPE, existing methods are typically trained and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Qingyuan Cai , Linxin Zhang , Xuecai Hu , Saihui Hou , Yongzhen Huang

Robust in-bed human pose estimation under blanket occlusion remains challenging due to the scarcity of reliable labeled training data for heavily covered poses. Existing approaches rely on multi-modal sensing or image-to-image translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Navid Aslankhani Khameneh , Marco Carletti , Cigdem Beyan

Pose-guided person image synthesis task requires re-rendering a reference image, which should have a photorealistic appearance and flawless pose transfer. Since person images are highly structured, existing approaches require dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Anant Khandelwal

Camera pose estimation is a long-standing computer vision problem that to date often relies on classical methods, such as handcrafted keypoint matching, RANSAC and bundle adjustment. In this paper, we propose to formulate the Structure from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Jianyuan Wang , Christian Rupprecht , David Novotny

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

Recent text-to-image generative models have exhibited remarkable abilities in generating high-fidelity and photo-realistic images. However, despite the visually impressive results, these models often struggle to preserve plausible human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zhenzhen Weng , Laura Bravo-Sánchez , Serena Yeung-Levy

Pose estimation refers to tracking a human's full body posture, including their head, torso, arms, and legs. The problem is challenging in practical settings where the number of body sensors are limited. Past work has shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sahil Bhandary Karnoor , Romit Roy Choudhury

3D human pose estimation from sketches has broad applications in computer animation and film production. Unlike traditional human pose estimation, this task presents unique challenges due to the abstract and disproportionate nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Li Wang , Yiyu Zhuang , Yanwen Wang , Xun Cao , Chuan Guo , Xinxin Zuo , Hao Zhu

Full 3D estimation of human pose from a single image remains a challenging task despite many recent advances. In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that strong prior information about scene geometry can be used to improve pose estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Zhe Wang , Liyan Chen , Shaurya Rathore , Daeyun Shin , Charless Fowlkes

3D human pose estimation from a monocular image or 2D joints is an ill-posed problem because of depth ambiguity and occluded joints. We argue that 3D human pose estimation from a monocular input is an inverse problem where multiple feasible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Chen Li , Gim Hee Lee