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Combining sparse IMUs and a monocular camera is a new promising setting to perform real-time human motion capture. This paper proposes a diffusion-based solution to learn human motion priors and fuse the two modalities of signals together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Shaohua Pan , Xinyu Yi , Yan Zhou , Weihua Jian , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Feng Xu

The goal of creating intelligent, human-centered wearable systems for continuous activity understanding faces a fundamental trade-off: Egocentric video-based models capture rich semantic information and have demonstrated strong performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Baiyu Chen , Wilson Wongso , Zechen Li , Yonchanok Khaokaew , Hao Xue , Flora Salim

A wide range of user perception applications leverage inertial measurement unit (IMU) data for online prediction. However, restricted by the non-i.i.d. nature of IMU data collected from mobile devices, most systems work well only in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yunzhe Li , Facheng Hu , Hongzi Zhu , Quan Liu , Xiaoke Zhao , Jiangang Shen , Shan Chang , Minyi Guo

This paper presents a wearable assistive device with the shape of a pair of eyeglasses that allows visually impaired people to navigate safely and quickly in unfamiliar environment, as well as perceive the complicated environment to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Jinqiang Bai , Zhaoxiang Liu , Yimin Lin , Ye Li , Shiguo Lian , Dijun Liu

Recovering high-quality 3D human motion in complex scenes from monocular videos is important for many applications, ranging from AR/VR to robotics. However, capturing realistic human-scene interactions, while dealing with occlusions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Siwei Zhang , Yan Zhang , Federica Bogo , Marc Pollefeys , Siyu Tang

Marker-based motion capture (MoCap) systems have long been the gold standard for accurate 4D human modeling, yet their reliance on specialized hardware and markers limits scalability and real-world deployment. Advancing reliable markerless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yeeun Park , Miqdad Naduthodi , Suryansh Kumar

Seamless Human-Robot Interaction is the ultimate goal of developing service robotic systems. For this, the robotic agents have to understand their surroundings to better complete a given task. Semantic scene understanding allows a robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Muraleekrishna Gopinathan , Giang Truong , Jumana Abu-Khalaf

IMU-based gesture interfaces are being increasingly adopted as efficient, accessible, and intuitive alternatives to traditional input methods, such as touchscreens and voice. However, current gesture recognition algorithms are tailored to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Prerna Khanna , Tanmay Srivastava , Shubham Jain , Aruna Balasubramanian

Leveraging wearable devices for motion reconstruction has emerged as an economical and viable technique. Certain methodologies employ sparse Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) on the human body and harness data-driven strategies to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xueyuan Yang , Chao Yao , Xiaojuan Ban

A key challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to reason about physical properties of objects and to foresee their dynamics under the effect of applied forces. In order to scale learning through interaction to many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Iman Nematollahi , Oier Mees , Lukas Hermann , Wolfram Burgard

This work focuses on tracking and understanding human motion using consumer wearable devices, such as VR/AR headsets, smart glasses, cellphones, and smartwatches. These devices provide diverse, multi-modal sensor inputs, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jian Wang , Rishabh Dabral , Diogo Luvizon , Zhe Cao , Lingjie Liu , Thabo Beeler , Christian Theobalt

Dense 3D reconstruction and tracking of dynamic scenes from monocular video remains an important open challenge in computer vision. Progress in this area has been constrained by the scarcity of high-quality datasets with dense, complete,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zeren Jiang , Yushi Lan , Yihang Luo , Yufan Deng , Zihang Lai , Edgar Sucar , Christian Rupprecht , Iro Laina , Diane Larlus , Chuanxia Zheng , Andrea Vedaldi

AR smart glasses need continuous behavioral context to offer proactive assistance, yet their most practical always-on sensor, the head-mounted Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), detects only motion primitives such as walking or standing. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chung-Ta Huang , Leopold Das , Jeffrey Zhou , Faizaan Siddique , Julia Seungjoo Baek , Serena Liu , Andrew Rusli , Todd Y. Zhou , Freddy Yu , Sinclair Hansen , Ziling Hu , Arnav Sharma , Mengyu Wang

Together with the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), human activity recognition (HAR) using wearable Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) becomes a promising technology for many research areas. Recently, deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Ling Pei , Songpengcheng Xia , Lei Chu , Fanyi Xiao , Qi Wu , Wenxian Yu , Robert Qiu

Sparse wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) have gained popularity for estimating 3D human motion. However, challenges such as pose ambiguity, data drift, and limited adaptability to diverse bodies persist. To address these issues, we…

Current technological advances open up new opportunities for bringing human-machine interaction to a new level of human-centered cooperation. In this context, a key issue is the semantic understanding of the environment in order to enable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Thorsten Hempel , Marc-André Fiedler , Aly Khalifa , Ayoub Al-Hamadi , Laslo Dinges

Wearable sensors such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are often used to assess the performance of human exercise. Common approaches use handcrafted features based on domain expertise or automatically extracted features using time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ashish Singh , Antonio Bevilacqua , Timilehin B. Aderinola , Thach Le Nguyen , Darragh Whelan , Martin O'Reilly , Brian Caulfield , Georgiana Ifrim

Understanding dynamic 3D human representation has become increasingly critical in virtual and extended reality applications. However, existing human part segmentation methods are constrained by reliance on closed-set datasets and prolonged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Keito Suzuki , Bang Du , Runfa Blark Li , Kunyao Chen , Lei Wang , Peng Liu , Ning Bi , Truong Nguyen

In this paper, we tackle the problem of scene-aware 3D human motion forecasting. A key challenge of this task is to predict future human motions that are consistent with the scene by modeling the human-scene interactions. While recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Chaoyue Xing , Wei Mao , Miaomiao Liu

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors are widely employed for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) due to their portability, energy efficiency, and growing research interest. However, a significant challenge for IMU-HAR models is achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qi Qiu , Tao Zhu , Furong Duan , Kevin I-Kai Wang , Liming Chen , Mingxing Nie , Mingxing Nie