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Marker-based optical motion capture (mocap) is the "gold standard" method for acquiring accurate 3D human motion in computer vision, medicine, and graphics. The raw output of these systems are noisy and incomplete 3D points or short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Nima Ghorbani , Michael J. Black

Markerless motion capture has become an active field of research in computer vision in recent years. Its extensive applications are known in a great variety of fields, including computer animation, human motion analysis, biomedical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Doan Duy Vo , Russell Butler

We present MAMMA, a markerless motion-capture pipeline that accurately recovers SMPL-X parameters from multi-view video of two-person interaction sequences. Traditional motion-capture systems rely on physical markers. Although they offer…

Optical motion capture (mocap) requires accurately reconstructing the human body from retroreflective markers, including pose and shape. In a typical mocap setting, marker labeling is an important but tedious and error-prone step. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nicholas Milef , John Keyser , Shu Kong

Foot contact is an important cue for human motion capture, understanding, and generation. Existing datasets tend to annotate dense foot contact using visual matching with thresholding or incorporating pressure signals. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 He Zhang , Shenghao Ren , Haolei Yuan , Jianhui Zhao , Fan Li , Shuangpeng Sun , Zhenghao Liang , Tao Yu , Qiu Shen , Xun Cao

We present a new method to capture detailed human motion, sampling more than 1000 unique points on the body. Our method outputs highly accurate 4D (spatio-temporal) point coordinates and, crucially, automatically assigns a unique label to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 He Chen , Hyojoon Park , Kutay Macit , Ladislav Kavan

Marker-less 3D human motion capture from a single colour camera has seen significant progress. However, it is a very challenging and severely ill-posed problem. In consequence, even the most accurate state-of-the-art approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Soshi Shimada , Vladislav Golyanik , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt

We present the first marker-less approach for temporally coherent 3D performance capture of a human with general clothing from monocular video. Our approach reconstructs articulated human skeleton motion as well as medium-scale non-rigid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Weipeng Xu , Avishek Chatterjee , Michael Zollhöfer , Helge Rhodin , Dushyant Mehta , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

Existing human Motion Capture (MoCap) methods mostly focus on the visual similarity while neglecting the physical plausibility. As a result, downstream tasks such as driving virtual human in 3D scene or humanoid robots in real world suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Shenghao Ren , Yi Lu , Jiayi Huang , Jiayi Zhao , He Zhang , Tao Yu , Qiu Shen , Xun Cao

Human behaviors in the real world naturally encode rich, long-term contextual information that can be leveraged to train embodied agents for perception, understanding, and acting. However, existing capture systems typically rely on costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Wenjia Wang , Liang Pan , Huaijin Pi , Yuke Lou , Xuqian Ren , Yifan Wu , Zhouyingcheng Liao , Lei Yang , Rishabh Dabral , Christian Theobalt , Taku Komura

Simulated humanoids are an appealing research domain due to their physical capabilities. Nonetheless, they are also challenging to control, as a policy must drive an unstable, discontinuous, and high-dimensional physical system. One widely…

Training state-of-the-art models for human body pose and shape recovery from images or videos requires datasets with corresponding annotations that are really hard and expensive to obtain. Our goal in this paper is to study whether poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Fabien Baradel , Thibault Groueix , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Romain Brégier , Yannis Kalantidis , Grégory Rogez

Rapid development of social robots stimulates active research in human motion modeling, interpretation and prediction, proactive collision avoidance, human-robot interaction and co-habitation in shared spaces. Modern approaches to this end…

Markerless motion capture is an active research in 3D virtualization. In proposed work we presented a system for markerless motion capture for 3D human character animation, paper presents a survey on motion and skeleton tracking techniques…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Ashish Shingade , Archana Ghotkar

We introduce a data capture system and a new dataset, HO-Cap, for 3D reconstruction and pose tracking of hands and objects in videos. The system leverages multiple RGBD cameras and a HoloLens headset for data collection, avoiding the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jikai Wang , Qifan Zhang , Yu-Wei Chao , Bowen Wen , Xiaohu Guo , Yu Xiang

Motion capture has become increasingly important, not only in computer animation but also in emerging fields like the virtual reality, bioinformatics, and humanoid training. Capturing outdoor environments offers extended horizon scenes but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Aditya Rauniyar , Micah Corah , Sebastian Scherer

Existing marker-less motion capture methods often assume known backgrounds, static cameras, and sequence specific motion priors, which narrows its application scenarios. Here we propose a fully automatic method that given multi-view video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Yinghao Huang , Federica Bogo , Christoph Lassner , Angjoo Kanazawa , Peter V. Gehler , Ijaz Akhter , Michael J. Black

Recent advances in world models have demonstrated strong capabilities in simulating physical reality, making them an increasingly important foundation for embodied intelligence. For UAV agents in particular, accurate prediction of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zile Guo , Zhan Chen , Enze Zhu , Kan Wei , Yongkang Zou , Xiaoxuan Liu , Lei Wang

Marker-less monocular 3D human motion capture (MoCap) with scene interactions is a challenging research topic relevant for extended reality, robotics and virtual avatar generation. Due to the inherent depth ambiguity of monocular settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Soshi Shimada , Vladislav Golyanik , Zhi Li , Patrick Pérez , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt

Optical motion capture (MoCap) is the "gold standard" for accurately capturing full-body motions. To make use of raw MoCap point data, the system labels the points with corresponding body part locations and solves the full-body motions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Xiaoyu Pan , Bowen Zheng , Xinwei Jiang , Zijiao Zeng , Qilong Kou , He Wang , Xiaogang Jin