Human Pose Estimation

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Human pose estimation locates body joints and reconstructs 2D or 3D body structure, supporting motion analysis, rehabilitation, sports, animation, and human-robot interaction. Methods range from CNNs and vision transformers that predict keypoints from images to temporal models, graph networks, and probabilistic models that use motion and anatomical priors; radar, WiFi, and wearable sensors offer alternatives when cameras are unsuitable. Benchmarks such as COCO, PoseTrack, Human3.6M, and 3DPW test accuracy across still images, video, and 3D settings. A central challenge is making estimates reliable under occlusion, unusual poses, new environments, and noisy labels while keeping models efficient enough for real-time use.

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  1. StickFigure: Enabling Pose-Only IoT Cameras for Privacy-Preserving Edge Vision

    Oct 25, 2026Aveline Xiaoyuan Han, Chenshu WuHuman Pose EstimationEdge Inference

    The University of Hong Kong

  2. VERA-Hand: A Verified Multidimensional Benchmark for 2D Hand Pose Estimation in Third-Person Dynamic Gesture Videos

    Oct 23, 2026Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Hiroki TakahashiHuman Pose EstimationObject Detection

    Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan · Artificial Intelligence eXploration Research Center (AIX), The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan · Meta-Networking Research Center (MEET), The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

  3. Radar-Based 3D Human Pose Estimation via Motion-Aware Pose Initialization and Observation-Guided Refinement

    Oct 20, 2026Woo-Jin Jung, Chan-Bin Lim, Seung-Hyun Kong3D Human Pose EstimationHuman Pose Estimation

    CCS Graduate School of Mobility, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34051, South Korea · Robotics Program, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, South Korea

  4. Robust Real-Time Monocular Human Pose Estimation with Insole-Based Sensor Fusion

    Oct 14, 2026Liang Yu, Tao Zhu, Xiangqing Lu +2Human Pose EstimationMultimodal Sensor Fusion

    University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China · Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

  5. FlowAvatar: Real-Time Full-Body Avatars from Sparse Egocentric Inputs on Consumer XR Devices

    Oct 12, 2026Chenfeng Gao, Taeyoung Yeon, Sungheon Park +4Human Avatar AnimationHuman Pose Estimation

    Northwestern University · University of Chicago · Google

  6. Human Pose Estimation by Probabilistic Mixtures of Gaussian and Uniform Distributions

    Oct 8, 2026Santiago Reina Alguacil, Ezequiel López RubioHuman Pose EstimationGaussian Mixture Models

    Department of Computer Languages and Computer Science, University of Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain · Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga y Plataforma en Nanomedicina – IBIMA Plataforma BIONAND, 29590 Málaga, Spain · ITIS Software, University of Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain

  7. Video-Conditioned Generative Joint 2D-3D Hand Motion Recovery

    Oct 7, 2026Chen Xu, Yunqi Li, Binbin Huang +33D Hand Reconstruction3D Hand Pose Estimation

    The University of Hong Kong · UC Berkeley

  8. What the Sleeve Feels: Explainable Machine Learning for Textile Pressure-Based Postural Screening

    Oct 7, 2026Limon Bin Hossain, Md Sadib Rahman AnantaWearable SensingDomain Generalization

    Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

  9. Toward Reliable Infant Pose Estimation: A Training-Dynamics Approach to Noisy Annotation Detection

    Oct 5, 2026Emanuele Cardinale, Sara Moccia, Alessandro Cacciatore +1Markerless Motion CaptureNoisy-Label Learning

    Department of Engineering and Geology, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, 65127, Italy · Laboratory of Computational Oncology, Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium · Department of Political Science, Università di Teramo, Teramo, 64100, Italy +1

  10. PACT: End-to-End Learning of Human Pose, Contacts, and Forces from Video

    Sep 30, 2026Rikhat Akizhanov, Yangsong Zhang, Nikolai Kaliazin +5Contact Force EstimationHuman Pose Estimation

    MBZUAI · ETH Zürich · EPFL

  11. Reliability-Gated Fusion of Consumer Head and Foot IMUs for Lower-Body 3D Pose

    Sep 28, 2026Zhilin Guo, Boqiao Zhang, Oszkár Urbán +8Markerless Motion Capture3D Human Pose Estimation

    University of Cambridge · Chalmers University of Technology

  12. Impact of Patient Orientation in Single- and Multi-View Camera Environments for AI-based Rehabilitation Monitoring

    Sep 28, 2026Miriama Jánošová, Andreas Lang, Petra Budikova +13D Human Pose EstimationHuman Pose Estimation

    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic · TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany · VisionCraft, Brno, Czech Republic

  13. One Sensor, Whole Body - 3D Body Pose from a Single Consumer Earbud IMU

    Sep 28, 2026Zhilin Guo, Boqiao Zhang, Oszkár Urbán +8Wearable Sensing3D Human Pose Estimation

    University of Cambridge United Kingdom · Chalmers University of Technology Sweden

  14. Auditing Quality Filters for Long-Tail Human Data Curation

    Sep 25, 2026Rishav Agarwal, Nirshal Chandra Sekar, Anirudh VemulaTraining Data CurationObject Detection

    Gritt Robotics

  15. Structured Pose-Conditioned Flow Matching for Generative 5G CSI Augmentation

    Sep 24, 2026Haojin Li, Anbang Zhang, Wai Ho Mow +3Flow MatchingSynthetic Data Augmentation

    University of Science and Technology Beijing, China · Department of ECE, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong · University of Exeter +1

  16. ArmPoser: Real-Time, Calibration-Free Arm Pose Estimation from Smartwatch IMU

    Sep 8, 2026Bishnu Dev, Vasco Xu, Xi-Aan Loh +3Wearable SensingHuman Pose Estimation

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University of Chicago · Northwestern University

  17. A Black-Box Adversarial Attack on Human Pose Estimation and Keypoint-Based Action Recognition Models

    Sep 7, 2026Kacper Mroczek, Michal KepskiHuman Pose EstimationBlack-Box Adversarial Attacks

    University of Rzeszów, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland

  18. Sound-based Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation

    Sep 4, 2026Yusuke Oumi, Yuto Shibata, Go Irie +3Human Pose Estimation3D Human Pose Estimation

    Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan · Tokyo University of Science, Katsushika, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan · NTT, Inc., Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan

  19. The Blind Spot in 2D Infants' Pose Estimation:Robust Learning from Noisy Annotations

    Sep 3, 2026Emanuele Cardinale, Marco Proietti, Alessandro Cacciatore +3Human Pose EstimationLearning with Noisy Labels

    Department of Engineering and Geology, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, 65127, Italy · Department of Political Science, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata, Macerata, 62100, Italy · Laboratory of Computational Oncology, Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium +3

  20. A Top-Down Framework for Metric-Scale Athlete Localization from Single Broadcast Frames

    Sep 2, 2026Thanh-Khoi Nguyen, Hoang-Phuc Nguyen, Linh-Huynh +1Sports Video AnalysisHuman Pose Estimation

    Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  21. Cross-Model Distillation of a Human-Pose Foundation Model from Unannotated Infant Video for Markerless 3D Pose Estimation

    Sep 1, 2026R. James Cotton, Divya Joshi, Colleen Peyton3D Foundation ModelsMarkerless Motion Capture

    1Shirley Ryan AbilityLab · Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University · Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Science, Northwestern University +1

  22. Markerless Pose Estimation for Resistance Training Technique Assessment

    Aug 25, 2026Joseph Turner, Jeff Clark, Nawid KeshtmandAction Quality AssessmentHuman Pose Estimation

    School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol, UK

  23. Human-JEPA: A Human-Centric Vision Model that Perceives and Anticipates

    Aug 21, 2026Hui Wei, Licai Sun, Guoying ZhaoVideo Representation LearningPredictive Representation Learning

    ELLIS Institute Finland, Finland · Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis (CMVS), University of Oulu, Finland

  24. VideoRun2D Demo: Markerless Body Tracking for Biomechanical Analysis of Running

    Aug 19, 2026Luis F. Gomez, Julian Fierrez, Roberto Daza +5Human Pose EstimationGait Analysis

    BiometricsAI, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain

  25. Topology-Unified 2D Pose Estimation across Intact, Residual and Prosthetic Limbs

    Aug 13, 2026Tianye Qi, Tengyue Zhang, Jiaying Ying +2Human Pose Estimation

    The University of Queensland · Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University · City University of Macau

  26. You Only Flow Once: Calibrated and Real-Time Radar Pose Estimation with Multi-Hypothesis Normalizing Flows

    Aug 10, 2026Jonas Leo Mueller, Sebastian Hoefler, Dario Zanca +3Normalizing FlowsMillimeter-Wave Radar

    Department Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering (AIBE), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, Germany · Chair of AI-supported Therapy Decisions, LMU München +1

  27. PressureMesh: 3D Human Mesh Estimation from Multi-Device Pressure Images

    Aug 10, 2026Changhai Ma, Ziyu Wu, Yunkang Zhang +8Human Mesh Recovery3D Human Pose Estimation

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  28. Learning Biomechanically Plausible Human Motion from Sparse Radar Point Clouds

    Aug 4, 2026Jonas Leo Mueller, Markus Gambietz, Alexander Weiss +2HealthcarePoint Cloud Learning

    Department Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering (AIBE), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany · Chair of AI-supported Therapy Decisions, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, Germany +2

  29. Markerless Motion Capture in Routine Clinical Upper Limb Assessments: Validity and Insights Beyond Ordinal Scoring

    Jul 26, 2026Tim Unger, Olivier Lambercy, Roger Gassert +3Markerless Motion CaptureHuman Pose Estimation

    Data Analytics & Rehabilitation Technology (DART), Lake Lucerne Institute, Vitznau, Switzerland · Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland · Lake Lucerne Institute, Vitznau, Switzerland +2

  30. Factorized Spatio-Temporal Convolutions for Human Pose Estimation from Planar Lidar

    Jul 23, 2026Simone Arreghini, Mirko Nava, Nicholas Carlotti +2Relative Pose EstimationHuman Pose Estimation

    Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), USI-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland