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. NCSTR: Node-Centric Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Reasoning for Video-based Human Pose Estimation

    Mar 20, 2026Quang Dang Huynh, Xuefei Yin, Andrew Busch +4Human Pose EstimationSpatiotemporal GNNs

    Griffith University

  2. Expanding mmWave Datasets for Human Pose Estimation with Unlabeled Data and LiDAR Datasets

    Mar 15, 2026Zhuoxuan Peng, Boan Zhu, Xingjian Zhang +2Human Pose EstimationData Augmentation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  3. Multi-Person Pose Estimation Evaluation Using Optimal Transportation and Improved Pose Matching

    Mar 11, 2026Takato Moriki, Hiromu Taketsugu, Norimichi UkitaHuman Pose Estimation

    Toyota Technological Institute

  4. CIGPose: Causal Intervention Graph Neural Network for Whole-Body Pose Estimation

    Mar 10, 2026Bohao Li, Zhicheng Cao, Huixian Li +1Human Pose EstimationCausal Inference

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University · School of Cybersecurity, Northwestern Polytechnical University

  5. ER-Pose: Rethinking Keypoint-Driven Representation Learning for Real-Time Human Pose Estimation

    Mar 9, 2026Nanjun Li, Pinqi Cheng, Zean Liu +2Human Pose EstimationKeypoint Detection

  6. mmGAT: Pose Estimation by Graph Attention with Mutual Features from mmWave Radar Point Cloud

    Mar 9, 2026Abdullah Al Masud, Shi Xintong, Mondher Bouazizi +1Human Pose Estimation3D Human Pose Estimation

    Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Kanagawa, 223-8522, Japan · Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Kanagawa, 223-8522, Japan

  7. Beyond Static Frames: Temporal Aggregate-and-Restore Vision Transformer for Human Pose Estimation

    Mar 6, 2026Hongwei Fang, Jiahang Cai, Xun Wang +1Human Pose EstimationVision Transformer

    Zhejiang Gongshang University, China

  8. EgoPoseFormer v2: Accurate Egocentric Human Motion Estimation for AR/VR

    Mar 4, 2026Zhenyu Li, Sai Kumar Dwivedi, Filip Maric +11Human Pose Estimation3D Human Pose Estimation

    Meta · KAUST · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

  9. Spectrum Shortage for Radio Sensing? Leveraging Ambient 5G Signals for Human Activity Detection

    Mar 3, 2026Kunzhe Song, Maxime Zingraff, Huacheng ZengIntegrated Sensing and CommunicationHuman Activity Recognition

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, USA

  10. Synthetic-Child: An AIGC-Based Synthetic Data Pipeline for Privacy-Preserving Child Posture Estimation

    Mar 3, 2026Taowen ZengHuman Pose EstimationSynthetic Data Generation

    Independent Researcher

  11. Egocentric Visibility-Aware Human Pose Estimation

    Feb 27, 2026Peng Dai, Yu Zhang, Yiqiang Feng +2Human Pose Estimation

    PICO

  12. WiCompass: Oracle-driven Data Scaling for mmWave Human Pose Estimation

    Feb 21, 2026Bo Liang, Chen Gong, Haobo Wang +8Human Pose EstimationOOD Generalization

    School of Computer Science, Peking University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of Pittsburgh +2

  13. On the Role of Rotation Equivariance in Monocular 2D-to-3D Human Pose Lifting

    Jan 20, 2026Pavlo Melnyk, Cuong Le, Urs Waldmann +2Data AugmentationEquivariant Neural Networks

    CVL, Linköping University · Independent Researcher

  14. Scriboora: Rethinking Human Pose Forecasting

    Nov 19, 2025Daniel Bermuth, Alexander Poeppel, Wolfgang ReifForecasting BenchmarksHuman Pose Estimation

    University of Augsburg, Germany

  15. Deep Learning-Enhanced Real-Time Wi-Fi Sensing Through Single Transceiver Pair

    Oct 21, 2025Yuxuan Liu, Chiya Zhang, Yifeng Yuan +3Wi-Fi SensingWireless Localization

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China. · School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China, and also with the Peng Cheng Laboratory (PCL), Shenzhen 518055, China. · Guangdong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China. +1

  16. SDPose: Exploiting Diffusion Priors for Out-of-Domain and Robust Pose Estimation

    Sep 29, 2025Shuang Liang, Jing He, Lejun Liao +4Human Pose EstimationVisual Representation Learning

    Rama Alpaca Technology · The University of Hong Kong · HKUST (GZ) +3

  17. ECHO: Ego-Centric modeling of Human-Object interactions

    Aug 29, 2025Ilya A. Petrov, Vladimir Guzov, Riccardo Marin +5HOI Generation3D Reconstruction

    University of Tübingen, Germany · Tübingen AI Center, Germany · Technical University of Munich, Germany +3

  18. DETRPose: Real-Time End-to-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation via Modified Transformer Decoder and Novel Denoising Keypoints

    Jun 16, 2025Sebastian Janampa, Marios PattichisDetection TransformerEfficient ViTs

    The University of New Mexico

  19. Cascaded Multi-Scale Attention for Enhanced Multi-Scale Feature Extraction and Interaction with Low-Resolution Images

    Dec 3, 2024Xiangyong Lu, Masanori Suganuma, Takayuki OkataniHybrid CNN-Transformer ArchitecturesObject Pose Estimation

    Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University. · RIKEN Center for AIP