Keypoint Detection

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Keypoint detection finds either repeatable local features for comparing images or meaningful landmarks on people and objects for estimating pose and location. Methods include SIFT-like features, learned detectors and descriptors, heatmap-based convolutional networks, and transformers; self-supervised training, geometric constraints, and prompts help reduce label needs or improve robustness. Human-pose systems are commonly evaluated on benchmarks such as COCO, while local matching is tested on HPatches and MegaDepth, with applications ranging from robotics to medical imaging. A central challenge is balancing accuracy and robustness to blur, occlusion, viewpoint, and domain shifts with inference speed, limited annotations, and reliable performance across settings.

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  1. Towards Complementary Keypoint Detection via Mixture of Detectors

    Oct 12, 2026Xiaoyong Lu, Guobao Xiao, Dong Liang +1Keypoint DetectionMixture of Experts

    Southeast University · Tongji University · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

  2. Structure-aware Keypoint Localization for Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Study

    Oct 6, 2026Kai Zhou, Chuanshen Chen, Runhao Zeng +6Keypoint DetectionSemi-Supervised Learning

    South China University of Technology · Shenzhen MSU-BIT University · The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University +1

  3. 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

  4. AHMAD: Adaptive Hybrid Multi-task Vision Learning with Assisted Distillation for Keypoint Detection

    Sep 28, 2026Mohammad Mahdi, Nedyalko Prisadnikov, Yuqian Fu +3Multi-Task LearningKeypoint Detection

    INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

  5. SSMB: Self-Supervised Local Feature Detection under Motion Blur

    Aug 27, 2026Zhenjun Zhao, Fabio Bellavia, Wenting Wang +6Keypoint DetectionImage Matching

    University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain · University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China +5

  6. Misanthrope: A Privacy-Preserving Keypoint Detector

    Aug 24, 2026Francesco Vultaggio, Predrag Djindjic, Markus Gerke +2Keypoint DetectionPrivacy-Preserving ML

    Austrian Institute of Technology, Assistive & Autonomous Systems Vienna 1210, Austria. · Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry Braunschweig 38106, Germany. · University of Vienna, Data Mining and Machine Learning Vienna 1090, Austria.

  7. Unified and Efficient Point-Line Local Features

    Aug 20, 2026François Costa, Raphael Kreft, Eckhard Goedeke +6Local Feature MatchingKeypoint Detection

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · Microsoft Spatial AI Lab

  8. RIPE++: Reinforced Keypoint Learning from Positive Pairs Only

    Aug 20, 2026Johannes Künzel, Peter Eisert, Anna HilsmannRepresentation LearningReinforcement Learning

    Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, HHI, Germany · Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

  9. Accurate Localization of Road Traffic Objects on the Road Plane Using Surveillance Camera Imagery

    Aug 6, 2026Jan Gawroński, Witold CzajewskiKeypoint DetectionVideo Surveillance

    Warsaw University of Technology · Faculty of Electrical Engineering · Warsaw, Poland

  10. Promptable Animal Pose Tracking Across Species

    Aug 5, 2026Le Li, Daniela Ivanova, Nicolas PugeaultKeypoint Detection

    School of Computing Science University of Glasgow

  11. UMCP: A Unified Multi-Task Collaborative Perception Network for Luggage Trolley Pose Estimation

    Jul 20, 2026Zhirui Sun, Zhihao Jiang, Yao Wang +2Object Pose EstimationMulti-Task Learning

    Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Robotics Perception and Intelligence, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · Jiaxing Research Institute, Southern University of Science and Technology, Jiaxing, China

  12. NEEDL-Bench: Dataset for Swiss Needle Cast and Stomata Detection in Microscopy Images

    Jul 13, 2026Benjamin Blake, Declan McIntosh, Jürgen Ehlting +3Plant Disease ClassificationSmall Object Detection

    Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Victoria Victoria, Canada

  13. TriCons-Pose: Triangle-Invariant Geometric Consistency Learning for Category-Level Object Pose Estimation

    Jul 12, 2026Zuzhi Yang, Shuai Wang, Mounir Kaaniche +4Object Pose EstimationGeometric Representation Learning

    School of Cyberspace, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China · Universit´e Sorbonne Paris Nord, L2TI, UR 3043, F-93430, Villetaneuse, France · Universit´e Paris-Saclay, Centrale-Sup´elec, CVN, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France +2

  14. GKDT: General Keypoint Detection Transformer

    Jul 1, 2026Changsheng Lu, Yuxin Chen, Haokun Gui +5Keypoint Detection

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · Australian National University, Canberra, Australia · Tencent Inc., China +1

  15. PinNet: Keypoint-Aware Learned Local Descriptors with Geometric Embedding for Loop Closure in LiDAR SLAM

    Jun 26, 2026Yanlong Ma, Nakul S. Joshi, Christa S. Robison +2Simultaneous Localization and MappingRepresentation Learning

    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Adelphi, MD, USA.

  16. Homographic Navigation: Geometry-Driven Camera Guidance for Deterministic Planar Capture

    Jun 22, 2026Dominik Kroupa, Marek Vaško, Muh Yuzril Ihza Baharuddin +1Visual NavigationObject Detection

    Ondokuz Mayıs University

  17. NeoLoc-68: End-to-end 68-point neonatal facial landmark localisation in neonatal clinical environments

    Jun 18, 2026Abdullah Bin-Obaid, Maria M. Cobo, Rebeccah Slater +2HealthcareKeypoint Detection

    Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom · Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom · Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Colegio de Ciencias Biologicas y Ambientales, Quito, Ecuador

  18. SPARK: Low Latency Single-Camera 3D Pose Estimation for Autonomous Racing using Keypoints

    Jun 16, 2026Dominic Ebner, Markus LienkampObject Pose EstimationAutonomous Racing

    Technical University of Munich, Germany; School of Engineering & Design, Department of Mobility Systems Engineering, Institute of Automotive Technology and Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI)

  19. PySIFT: GPU-Resident Deterministic SIFT for Deep Learning Vision Pipelines

    May 18, 2026Sivakumar K. S., Mohammad Daniyalur Rahman, Gopi Raju MattaGPU AccelerationImage Matching

    1Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  20. HyKey: Hyperspectral Keypoint Detection and Matching in Minimally Invasive Surgery

    Apr 19, 2026Alexander Saikia, Chiara Di Vece, Zhehua Mao +63D ReconstructionHyperspectral Imaging

    UCL Hawkes Institute, Dept of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and Dept of Computer Science, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. · EnAcuity Ltd., London, EC2A 4NE, United Kingdom.

  21. Utilizing Inpainting for Keypoint Detection for Vision-Based Control of Robotic Manipulators

    Apr 14, 2026Sreejani Chatterjee, Venkatesh Mullur, Abhinav Gandhi +1Vision-Based Robot ControlKeypoint Detection

    Robotics Engineering Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA

  22. GESS: Multi-cue Guided Local Feature Learning via Geometric and Semantic Synergy

    Apr 7, 2026Yang Yi, Xieyuanli Chen, Jinpu Zhang +2Keypoint DetectionFeature Fusion

    Y. Yi, X. Chen, J. Zhang, H. Shen, and D. Hu are with the College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, China.

  23. Human-Centric Perception for Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

    Mar 28, 2026Camila Laranjeira, João Macedo, Sandra Avila +2Keypoint DetectionHuman Pose Estimation

    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. · the Federal Police of Brazil. · Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. +1

  24. 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

  25. From Decoupled to Coupled: Robustness Verification for Learning-based Keypoint Detection with Joint Specifications

    Mar 5, 2026Xusheng Luo, Changliu LiuCertified RobustnessKeypoint Detection

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  26. From Pairs to Sequences: Track-Aware Policy Gradients for Keypoint Detection

    Feb 24, 2026Yepeng Liu, Hao Li, Liwen Yang +8Keypoint Detection

    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University · Xiaomi EV

  27. RaCo: Ranking and Covariance for Practical Learned Keypoints

    Feb 17, 2026Abhiram Shenoi, Philipp Lindenberger, Paul-Edouard Sarlin +1Keypoint DetectionLocal Feature Matching

    ETH Zurich · Google · Microsoft Mixed Reality & AI Lab

  28. 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