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Advances in the state of the art for 3d human sensing are currently limited by the lack of visual datasets with 3d ground truth, including multiple people, in motion, operating in real-world environments, with complex illumination or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Andrei Zanfir , Mihai Zanfir , William T. Freeman , Rahul Sukthankar , Cristian Sminchisescu

Great progress has been made in estimating 3D human pose and shape from images and video by training neural networks to directly regress the parameters of parametric human models like SMPL. However, existing body models have simplified…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Marilyn Keller , Keenon Werling , Soyong Shin , Scott Delp , Sergi Pujades , C. Karen Liu , Michael J. Black

Emerging Metaverse applications demand reliable, accurate, and photorealistic reproductions of human hands to perform sophisticated operations as if in the physical world. While real human hand represents one of the most intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yuwei Li , Longwen Zhang , Zesong Qiu , Yingwenqi Jiang , Nianyi Li , Yuexin Ma , Yuyao Zhang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Markerless estimation of 3D Kinematics has the great potential to clinically diagnose and monitor movement disorders without referrals to expensive motion capture labs; however, current approaches are limited by performing multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Marian Bittner , Wei-Tse Yang , Xucong Zhang , Ajay Seth , Jan van Gemert , Frans C. T. van der Helm

The modeling and simulation of coupled neuromusculoskeletal-exoskeletal systems play a crucial role in human biomechanical analysis, as well as in the design and control of exoskeletons. However, conventional dynamic simulation frameworks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Wei Jin , Jiaqi Liu , Qiwei Zhang , Xiaoxu Zhang , Qining Wang , Hongbin Fang , Jian Xu

Purpose: Spinal instability is a widespread condition that causes pain, fatigue, and restricted mobility, profoundly affecting patients' quality of life. In clinical practice, the gold standard for diagnosis is dynamic X-ray imaging.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Feng Li , Yuan Bi , Tianyu Song , Zhongliang Jiang , Nassir Navab

There has been significant progress in machine learning algorithms for human pose estimation that may provide immense value in rehabilitation and movement sciences. However, there remain several challenges to routine use of these tools for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 R. James Cotton

Markerless biomechanics increasingly relies on 3D skeletal keypoints extracted from video, yet downstream biomechanical mappings typically treat these estimates as deterministic, providing no principled mechanism for frame-wise quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Cesare Davide Pace , Alessandro Marco De Nunzio , Claudio De Stefano , Francesco Fontanella , Mario Molinara

Human motion is fundamental to understanding behavior. Despite progress on single-image 3D pose and shape estimation, existing video-based state-of-the-art methods fail to produce accurate and natural motion sequences due to a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Muhammed Kocabas , Nikos Athanasiou , Michael J. Black

The human spine is a complex structure composed of 33 vertebrae. It holds the body and is important for leading a healthy life. The spine is vulnerable to age-related degenerations that can be identified through magnetic resonance imaging…

We present SoftSMPL, a learning-based method to model realistic soft-tissue dynamics as a function of body shape and motion. Datasets to learn such task are scarce and expensive to generate, which makes training models prone to overfitting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Igor Santesteban , Elena Garces , Miguel A. Otaduy , Dan Casas

Understanding human motion beyond surface kinematics is crucial for motion analysis, rehabilitation, and injury risk assessment. However, progress in this domain is limited by the lack of large-scale datasets with biomechanical annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yujun Huo , He Zhang , Chentao Song , Honglin Song , Zongyu Zuo , Tao Yu

We propose a real-time 3D human pose estimation and motion analysis method termed RePose for rehabilitation training. It is capable of real-time monitoring and evaluation of patients'motion during rehabilitation, providing immediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Junxiao Xue , Pavel Smirnov , Ziao Li , Yunyun Shi , Shi Chen , Xinyi Yin , Xiaohan Yue , Lei Wang , Yiduo Wang , Feng Lin , Yijia Chen , Xiao Ma , Xiaoran Yan , Qing Zhang , Fengjian Xue , Xuecheng Wu

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with wearable sensors is essential for applications in healthcare, fitness, and human-computer interaction. Bio-impedance sensing offers unique advantages for fine-grained motion capture but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Mengxi Liu , Deepika Gurung , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Dendritic spines are key structural components of excitatory synapses in the brain. Given the size of dendritic spines provides a proxy for synaptic efficacy, their detection and tracking across time is important for studies of the neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Pamela Osuna-Vargas , Altug Kamacioglu , Dominik F. Aschauer , Petros E. Vlachos , Sercan Alipek , Jochen Triesch , Simon Rumpel , Matthias Kaschube

Accurate segmentation of 3D clinical medical images is critical in the diagnosis and treatment of spinal diseases. However, the inherent complexity of spinal anatomy and uncertainty inherent in current imaging technologies, poses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 Zhiqing Zhang , Tianyong Liu , Guojia Fan , Bin Li , Qianjin Feng , Shoujun Zhou

Automated assessment of human motion plays a vital role in rehabilitation, enabling objective evaluation of patient performance and progress. Unlike general human activity recognition, rehabilitation motion assessment focuses on analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ali Ismail-Fawaz , Maxime Devanne , Stefano Berretti , Jonathan Weber , Germain Forestier

Statistical models of 3D human shape and pose learned from scan databases have developed into valuable tools to solve a variety of vision and graphics problems. Unfortunately, most publicly available models are of limited expressiveness as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Leonid Pishchulin , Stefanie Wuhrer , Thomas Helten , Christian Theobalt , Bernt Schiele

In this paper we present a high fidelity and articulated 3D human foot model. The model is parameterised by a disentangled latent code in terms of shape, texture and articulated pose. While high fidelity models are typically created with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Oliver Boyne , James Charles , Roberto Cipolla

This study presents an innovative computer vision framework designed to analyze human movements in industrial settings, aiming to enhance biomechanical analysis by integrating seamlessly with existing software. Through a combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jesudara Omidokun , Darlington Egeonu , Bochen Jia , Liang Yang