The paper presents a method for improving markerless 3D pose estimation in infants by cross‑model distillation. Using unannotated infant video, a frozen Sapiens 2 pose model provides dense pseudo‑labels that guide fine‑tuning of the SAM 3D Body model. On a held‑out dataset of eleven infants, the fine‑tuned model shows significant gains in 2D keypoint accuracy and 3D joint error compared to the original SAM 3D Body model.
arXiv:2608.29928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-of-the-art monocular body recovery methods predict mesh vertices and angles on the corresponding kinematic tree, but their outputs lack biomechan...
arXiv:2610.20124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mesh recovery (HMR) provides a geometric foundation for understanding human motion, but accurately reconstructing both body motion and fine hand...
arXiv:2609.18406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recovering 3D human body motion from video is important for applications such as rehabilitation assessment and sports performance evaluation. For prost...
Recovering 3D human body motion from video is important for applications such as rehabilitation assessment and sports performance evaluation. For prosthesis users, this requires capturing both natural...
This scoping review examined 117 studies on video-based markerless motion capture, most published from 2024 onward and focused on healthy adults walking in laboratories. The studies identified five main pipeline architectures, but most reported only raw joint angles without biomechanical refinement, achieving sagittal lower‑limb agreement of about 5–6°, which falls short of clinical acceptability. Validation of out‑of‑plane kinematics, kinetics, and performance in older or pathological populations was rare, and emerging computer‑vision techniques such as foundation‑model mesh recovery and differentiable inverse kinematics were largely absent from validated work.
arXiv:2607. 08725v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in 3D human pose estimation has made markerless recovery of skeletal motion increasingly accurate and scalable.
arXiv:2610.29936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recovering metric world-space hand motion from egocentric video supports understanding human interactions and transferring them to embodied agents. Thr...
DirtyMoCap is a marker‑layout‑free framework that converts unordered, noisy optical motion capture markers into a fixed set of proxy anchors representing skeletal joints and body surface points. Using a recurrent sliding‑window architecture to track these anchors and a custom differentiable Gauss‑Newton solver to fit the SMPL‑H model, the method learns adaptive observation confidence, smoothness, and prior weights end‑to‑end. Experiments show that DirtyMoCap generalizes across arbitrary marker configurations, outperforms configuration‑specific baselines in joint and vertex accuracy, and achieves up to a 100× speedup over standard PyTorch implementations, enabling the creation of a temporally coherent Kung Fu motion dataset.
The study investigates how well a single consumer earbud IMU can estimate 3D body pose and whether adding foot IMUs improves accuracy. Using a multimodal capture pipeline with RGB‑D video, an AirPods head IMU, and Striv insole IMUs, the authors benchmark pose estimation across various motions and train recurrent models (IMUPoser and MobilePoser). Results show that a head IMU alone achieves 79.0 mm rigid‑MPJPE and 0.809 macro‑F1 for foot contact, while adding foot IMUs does not significantly improve pose and can even degrade performance due to insole orientation errors.
The paper introduces REHAB26-ViewAngles, a dataset of correct and incorrect rehabilitation exercise videos captured from many camera angles, and a new separability metric to evaluate pose‑estimation algorithms. It evaluates single‑camera 2D and 3D pose estimation and four multi‑camera approaches, showing that an optimally placed 2D camera can boost separability by 16.9% over a frontal view and that combining two views can improve accuracy by up to 13.1%. These findings provide concrete guidance for setting up camera systems in home and clinical rehabilitation monitoring.
arXiv:2606. 28104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-based assessment can provide convenient and cost-effective evaluation in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) rehabilitation training, where action quality assessment (AQA) from computer vision offers a promising solution.
WildHSR introduces a lightweight adaptation of 3D foundation models to jointly recover metric cameras, scene geometry, and persistent person identities from monocular video. By generating pseudo‑scale labels from curated web footage and fine‑tuning a Scale Readout, the method predicts metric scale directly from foundation‑model tokens. It also exploits intermediate query‑key features to associate per‑frame bodies, enabling feed‑forward reconstruction that outperforms state‑of‑the‑art optimization‑based methods on several benchmarks while running at 10.1 fps.