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We present a method to reconstruct time-consistent human body models from monocular videos, focusing on extremely loose clothing or handheld object interactions. Prior work in human reconstruction is either limited to tight clothing with no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jeff Tan , Donglai Xiang , Shubham Tulsiani , Deva Ramanan , Gengshan Yang

Biomechanical and clinical gait research observes muscles and tendons in limbs to study their functions and behaviour. Therefore, movements of distinct anatomical landmarks, such as muscle-tendon junctions, are frequently measured. We…

Generative models of 3D human motion are often restricted to a small number of activities and can therefore not generalize well to novel movements or applications. In this work we propose a deep learning framework for human motion capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Judith Bütepage , Michael Black , Danica Kragic , Hedvig Kjellström

Existing multi-person human reconstruction approaches mainly focus on recovering accurate poses or avoiding penetration, but overlook the modeling of close interactions. In this work, we tackle the task of reconstructing closely interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Buzhen Huang , Chen Li , Chongyang Xu , Liang Pan , Yangang Wang , Gim Hee Lee

3D Human Body Reconstruction from a monocular image is an important problem in computer vision with applications in virtual and augmented reality platforms, animation industry, en-commerce domain, etc. While several of the existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Abbhinav Venkat , Chaitanya Patel , Yudhik Agrawal , Avinash Sharma

Monocular video human mesh recovery is essential for digital humans, avatar animation, and embodied simulation, where both temporal stability and expressive whole-body motion are required. Existing video HMR methods produce coherent body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wenhao Shen , Ming Zhou , Hengyuan Zhang , Siyuan Bian , Youjiang Xu , Xi Lin

Accurately reconstructing human behavior in close-interaction scenarios is crucial for enabling realistic virtual interactions in augmented reality, precise motion analysis in sports, and natural collaborative behavior in human-robot tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Qi Xia , Peishan Cong , Ziyi Wang , Yujing Sun , Qin Sun , Xinge Zhu , Mao Ye , Ruigang Yang , Yuexin Ma

In this paper, we tackle the problem of how to build and benchmark a large motion model (LMM). The ultimate goal of LMM is to serve as a foundation model for versatile motion-related tasks, e.g., human motion generation, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Liang Xu , Shaoyang Hua , Zili Lin , Yifan Liu , Feipeng Ma , Yichao Yan , Xin Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Wenjun Zeng

Spine biomechanics is at a transformation with the advent and integration of machine learning and computer vision technologies. These novel techniques facilitate the estimation of 3D body shapes, anthropometrics, and kinematics from as…

Human mesh recovery (HMR) models 3D human body from monocular videos, with recent works extending it to world-coordinate human trajectory and motion reconstruction. However, most existing methods remain offline, relying on future frames or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yiwen Zhao , Ce Zheng , Yufu Wang , Hsueh-Han Daniel Yang , Liting Wen , Laszlo A. Jeni

How do humans move? Advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have produced impressive results in capturing human motion using physics-based humanoid control. However, torque-controlled humanoids fail to model key aspects of human motor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Merkourios Simos , Alberto Silvio Chiappa , Alexander Mathis

This work aims to discuss the current landscape of kinematic analysis tools, ranging from the state-of-the-art in sports biomechanics such as inertial measurement units (IMUs) and retroreflective marker-based optical motion capture (MoCap)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Kai Armstrong , Alexander Rodrigues , Alexander P. Willmott , Lei Zhang , Xujiong Ye

This report reviews recent advancements in human motion prediction, reconstruction, and generation. Human motion prediction focuses on forecasting future poses and movements from historical data, addressing challenges like nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Canxuan Gang , Yiran Wang

We present a unified perspective on tackling various human-centric video tasks by learning human motion representations from large-scale and heterogeneous data resources. Specifically, we propose a pretraining stage in which a motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Zhaoyang Liu , Libin Liu , Wayne Wu , Yizhou Wang

We present a new trainable system for physically plausible markerless 3D human motion capture, which achieves state-of-the-art results in a broad range of challenging scenarios. Unlike most neural methods for human motion capture, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Soshi Shimada , Vladislav Golyanik , Weipeng Xu , Patrick Pérez , Christian Theobalt

We focus on the task of estimating a physically plausible articulated human motion from monocular video. Existing approaches that do not consider physics often produce temporally inconsistent output with motion artifacts, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Erik Gärtner , Mykhaylo Andriluka , Hongyi Xu , Cristian Sminchisescu

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

In this paper, a novel human action recognition technique from video is presented. Any action of human is a combination of several micro action sequences performed by one or more body parts of the human. The proposed approach uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Satyabrata Maity , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Amlan Chakrabarti

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

We present a system that allows users to visualize complex human motion via 3D motion sculptures---a representation that conveys the 3D structure swept by a human body as it moves through space. Given an input video, our system computes the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Xiuming Zhang , Tali Dekel , Tianfan Xue , Andrew Owens , Qiurui He , Jiajun Wu , Stefanie Mueller , William T. Freeman