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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,563 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2025

Human keypoint detection has become a fundamental task in computer vision, underpinning a wide range of downstream applications such as action recognition, intelligent surveillance, and human–computer interaction. Accurate localization of keypo...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,545 Views
21 Pages

16 July 2024

Most airport surface surveillance systems focus on monitoring and commanding cooperative objects (vehicles) while neglecting the location and detection of non-cooperative objects (humans). Abnormal behavior by non-cooperative objects poses a potentia...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence Models, Tools and Applications)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,786 Views
9 Pages

Using an Ensemble of Deep Neural Networks to Detect Human Keypoints in the Workspace of a Collaborative Robotic System

  • Yuri Ivanov,
  • Sergey Zhiganov,
  • Mikhail Gorkavyy,
  • Sergey Sukhorukov and
  • Daniil Grabar

It is suggested that the use an ensemble of deep neural networks can determine the spatial position of the operator using keypoints with a multicamera sensor system. The advantage of the algorithm is the use of a multicamera system that allows keypoi...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 15th International Conference “Intelligent Systems” (INTELS’22))
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,166 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2022

Compared to 25 years ago, the climbing sport itself has changed dramatically. From a rock climbing modification to a separation in three independent disciplines, the requirements to athletes and trainers increased rapidly. To ensure continuous improv...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
809 Views
23 Pages

9 December 2025

Driver distraction remains one of the leading causes of traffic accidents. Although deep learning approaches such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and Transformers have been extensively applied for distracted...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,362 Views
21 Pages

Pixel-Coordinate-Induced Human Pose High-Precision Estimation Method

  • Xuefei Sun,
  • Mohammed Jajere Adamu,
  • Ruifeng Zhang,
  • Xin Guan and
  • Qiang Li

Accurately estimating human pose is crucial for providing feedback during exercises or musical performances, but the complex and flexible nature of human joints makes it challenging. Additionally, traditional methods often neglect pixel coordinates,...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
455 Views
23 Pages

Recognizing human actions from static images in complex industrial environments remains challenging due to insufficient feature representation and high computational complexity. This issue is particularly critical in power-grid safety monitoring, whe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bionic Intelligent Robots)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,524 Views
11 Pages

PGNet: Pipeline Guidance for Human Key-Point Detection

  • Feng Hong,
  • Changhua Lu,
  • Chun Liu,
  • Ruru Liu,
  • Weiwei Jiang,
  • Wei Ju and
  • Tao Wang

24 March 2020

Human key-point detection is a challenging research field in computer vision. Convolutional neural models limit the number of parameters and mine the local structure, and have made great progress in significant target detection and key-point detectio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Image Analysis II)
  • Review
  • Open Access
103 Citations
15,565 Views
25 Pages

7 September 2021

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) has received considerable attention during the past years, improving its performance thanks to the use of Deep Learning, and introducing new interesting uses, such as its application in Sport and Physical Exercise (SPE). T...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,375 Views
28 Pages

30 June 2025

Two-dimensional human pose estimation (2D HPE) has become a fundamental task in computer vision, driven by growing demands in intelligent surveillance, sports analytics, and healthcare. The rapid advancement of deep learning has led to the developmen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Information & Communication Engineering 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
172 Views
21 Pages

4 September 2026

Human pose estimation in factory surveillance is challenged by scale variation, limb occlusion, complex backgrounds, and spatial detail loss during upsampling. This paper proposes MFA-Pose, an improved YOLO11s-Pose framework that enhances contextual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,748 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2023

As a biological characteristic, gait uses the posture characteristics of human walking for identification, which has the advantages of a long recognition distance and no requirement for the cooperation of subjects. This paper proposes a research meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Applications for Pose Estimation and Human Action Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,679 Views
19 Pages

DSPose: Dual-Space-Driven Keypoint Topology Modeling for Human Pose Estimation

  • Anran Zhao,
  • Jingli Li,
  • Hongtao Zeng,
  • Hongren Cheng and
  • Liangshan Dong

3 September 2023

Human pose estimation is the basis of many downstream tasks, such as motor intervention, behavior understanding, and human–computer interaction. The existing human pose estimation methods rely too much on the similarity of keypoints at the imag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Robot Interaction for Intelligent Education and Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
207 Citations
14,273 Views
19 Pages

Neural Sign Language Translation Based on Human Keypoint Estimation

  • Sang-Ki Ko,
  • Chang Jo Kim,
  • Hyedong Jung and
  • Choongsang Cho

1 July 2019

We propose a sign language translation system based on human keypoint estimation. It is well-known that many problems in the field of computer vision require a massive dataset to train deep neural network models. The situation is even worse when it c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Intelligent Imaging Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,549 Views
17 Pages

MambaPose: A Human Pose Estimation Based on Gated Feedforward Network and Mamba

  • Jianqiang Zhang,
  • Jing Hou,
  • Qiusheng He,
  • Zhengwei Yuan and
  • Hao Xue

20 December 2024

Human pose estimation is an important research direction in the field of computer vision, which aims to accurately identify the position and posture of keypoints of the human body through images or videos. However, multi-person pose estimation yields...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
564 Views
24 Pages

SY-SLAM: Real-Time Dynamic Indoor RGB-D SLAM with SuperPoint Detection and Asynchronous YOLOv8s-Based Keypoint Suppression

  • Shaoshuai Zhi,
  • Shuangfeng Wei,
  • Shan Zhou,
  • Yulan Lao,
  • Mingyang Zhai,
  • Tianyu Yang,
  • Keming Qu and
  • Boyan Jiang

23 May 2026

Traditional visual SLAM pipelines are typically designed under the static-world assumption and often degrade severely in indoor environments with frequent human motion. To improve trajectory accuracy and front-end stability in such scenarios while ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,392 Views
17 Pages

Cofopose: Conditional 2D Pose Estimation with Transformers

  • Evans Aidoo,
  • Xun Wang,
  • Zhenguang Liu,
  • Edwin Kwadwo Tenagyei,
  • Kwabena Owusu-Agyemang,
  • Seth Larweh Kodjiku,
  • Victor Nonso Ejianya and
  • Esther Stacy E. B. Aggrey

9 September 2022

Human pose estimation has long been a fundamental problem in computer vision and artificial intelligence. Prominent among the 2D human pose estimation (HPE) methods are the regression-based approaches, which have been proven to achieve excellent resu...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
11,776 Views
15 Pages

21 December 2022

The adoption of computer vision pose estimation approaches, used to identify keypoint locations which are intended to reflect the necessary anatomical landmarks relied upon by biomechanists for musculoskeletal modelling, has gained increasing tractio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wearable Sensors for Human Movement Analysis Related to Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,940 Views
19 Pages

Animal keypoint detection holds significant applications in fields such as biological behavior research and animal health monitoring. Although related research has reached a relatively mature stage of human keypoint detection, it still faces numerous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
496 Views
19 Pages

3D Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Video Sequences in Underwater Scenarios

  • Shuwen Liang,
  • Hailong Liu,
  • Ping Liu,
  • Dong Zhang,
  • Rong Yu,
  • Xiaowei Zhou and
  • Zhize Zhou

26 July 2026

This paper presents a novel approach for estimating 3D human pose from monocular video sequences in underwater scenarios, tackling the unique challenges posed by water refraction, body occlusion, low image quality and illumination distortion in under...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Modal Image Processing Methods, Systems, and Applications: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
12,981 Views
14 Pages

25 May 2010

This paper addresses the problem of accurate and robust tracking of 3D human body pose from depth image sequences. Recovering the large number of degrees of freedom in human body movements from a depth image sequence is challenging due to the need to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motion Detectors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
573 Views
22 Pages

Distracted Driving Behavior Recognition Based on Improved YOLOv8n-Pose and Multi-Feature Fusion

  • Zhuzhou Li,
  • Dudu Guo,
  • Zhenxun Wei,
  • Guoliang Chen,
  • Miao Sun and
  • Yuhao Sun

3 April 2026

Distracted driving is one of the primary causes of road traffic accidents. Behavior recognition technology based on machine vision has emerged as a research hotspot due to its non-contact and high-efficiency nature. To address the challenges of compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,408 Views
20 Pages

Drone Detection and Pose Estimation Using Relational Graph Networks

  • Ren Jin,
  • Jiaqi Jiang,
  • Yuhua Qi,
  • Defu Lin and
  • Tao Song

26 March 2019

With the upsurge in use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), drone detection and pose estimation by using optical sensors becomes an important research subject in cooperative flight and low-altitude security. The existing technology only obtains the p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Sensing: Platforms, Technologies and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,235 Views
21 Pages

MythPose: Enhanced Detection of Complex Poses in Thangka Figures

  • Yukai Xian,
  • Te Shen,
  • Yurui Lee,
  • Ping Lan,
  • Qijun Zhao and
  • Liang Yan

12 August 2025

Thangka is a unique form of painting in Tibet, which holds rich cultural significance and artistic value. In Thangkas, in addition to the standard human form, there are also figures with multiple limbs. Existing human pose estimation methods are not...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,154 Views
22 Pages

Keypoint3D: Keypoint-Based and Anchor-Free 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving with Monocular Vision

  • Zhen Li,
  • Yuliang Gao,
  • Qingqing Hong,
  • Yuren Du,
  • Seiichi Serikawa and
  • Lifeng Zhang

22 February 2023

Autonomous driving has received enormous attention from the academic and industrial communities. However, achieving full driving autonomy is not a trivial task, because of the complex and dynamic driving environment. Perception ability is a tough cha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Advances in Urban Traffic Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,918 Views
27 Pages

2 February 2022

Automatic feature extraction from images of speech articulators is currently achieved by detecting edges. Here, we investigate the use of pose estimation deep neural nets with transfer learning to perform markerless estimation of speech articulator k...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Speech Interfaces with Sensors and Machine Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,710 Views
15 Pages

Two-Stage Method for Clothing Feature Detection

  • Xinwei Lyu,
  • Xinjia Li,
  • Yuexin Zhang and
  • Wenlian Lu

The rapid expansion of e-commerce, particularly in the clothing sector, has led to a significant demand for an effective clothing industry. This study presents a novel two-stage image recognition method. Our approach distinctively combines human keyp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,191 Views
27 Pages

RecovGait: Occluded Parkinson’s Disease Gait Reconstruction Using Unscented Tracking with Gated Initialization Technique

  • Chiau Wen Yeong,
  • Tee Connie,
  • Thian Song Ong,
  • Nor Izzati Saedon,
  • Ahmad Al-Khatib and
  • Mahmoud Farfoura

20 November 2025

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder disease that worsens over time and involves the deterioration of nerve cells in the brain. Gait analysis has emerged as a promising tool for early detection and monitoring of Parkinson’s...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sensors for Gait, Posture, and Health Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,244 Views
15 Pages

Absolute 3D Human Pose Estimation Using Noise-Aware Radial Distance Predictions

  • Inho Chang,
  • Min-Gyu Park,
  • Je Woo Kim and
  • Ju Hong Yoon

22 December 2022

We present a simple yet effective pipeline for absolute three-dimensional (3D) human pose estimation from two-dimensional (2D) joint keypoints, namely, the 2D-to-3D human pose lifting problem. Our method comprises two simple baseline networks, a 3D c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Symmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,842 Views
16 Pages

18 October 2024

A plentiful number of facial expressions is the basis of natural human–robot interaction for high-fidelity humanoid robots. The facial expression imitation of humanoid robots involves the transmission of human facial expression data to servos s...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,801 Views
15 Pages

DeepProfile: Accurate Under-the-Clothes Body Profile Estimation

  • Shufang Lu,
  • Funan Lu,
  • Xufeng Shou and
  • Shuaiyin Zhu

21 February 2022

Accurate human body profiles have many potential applications. Image-based human body profile estimation can be regarded as a fine-grained semantic segmentation problem, which is typically used to locate objects and boundaries in images. However, exi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,230 Views
21 Pages

Keypoints-Based Multi-Cue Feature Fusion Network (MF-Net) for Action Recognition of ADHD Children in TOVA Assessment

  • Wanyu Tang,
  • Chao Shi,
  • Yuanyuan Li,
  • Zhonglan Tang,
  • Gang Yang,
  • Jing Zhang and
  • Ling He

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder among children and adolescents. Behavioral detection and analysis play a crucial role in ADHD diagnosis and assessment by objectively quantifying hyperactivity...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computational Modeling in Biomedical Image and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,821 Views
16 Pages

Human pose estimation finds its application in an extremely wide domain and is therefore never pointless. We propose in this paper a new approach that, unlike any prior one that we are aware of, bypasses the 2D keypoint detection step based on which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
21,306 Views
16 Pages

Predicting Dog Emotions Based on Posture Analysis Using DeepLabCut

  • Kim Ferres,
  • Timo Schloesser and
  • Peter A. Gloor

This paper describes an emotion recognition system for dogs automatically identifying the emotions anger, fear, happiness, and relaxation. It is based on a previously trained machine learning model, which uses automatic pose estimation to differentia...

(This article belongs to the Collection Machine Learning Approaches for User Identity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
848 Views
32 Pages

Recognition of Acupoints on Human Back Based on Machine Vision and Deep Learning

  • Zhike Zhao,
  • Linman Song,
  • Songying Li,
  • Ruihao Xue and
  • Peng Li

Traditional acupoint localization methods rely heavily on manual operation, resulting in high subjectivity and limited accuracy. To improve the precision and stability of acupoint detection, this study integrates machine vision technology with in sit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, Computer Vision and Human–Robot Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,848 Views
20 Pages

A Compact and Powerful Single-Stage Network for Multi-Person Pose Estimation

  • Yabo Xiao,
  • Xiaojuan Wang,
  • Mingshu He,
  • Lei Jin,
  • Mei Song and
  • Jian Zhao

Multi-person pose estimation generally follows top-down and bottom-up paradigms. The top-down paradigm detects all human boxes and then performs single-person pose estimation on each ROI. The bottom-up paradigm locates identity-free keypoints and the...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,154 Views
16 Pages

30 August 2024

In this paper, we present a noise-robust approach for the 3D pose estimation of multiple people using appearance similarity. The common methods identify the cross-view correspondences between the detected keypoints and determine their association wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Object Detection, Pose Estimation, and 3D Reconstruction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
415 Views
26 Pages

Deep Learning-Driven Pose Extraction and Spatiotemporal Refinement for Human Detection and Distance Estimation on Railway Tracks with Thermal Imaging

  • Milan Pavlović,
  • Ivan Ćirić,
  • Danijela Ristić Durrant,
  • Miloš Simonović,
  • Mladen Kuzev,
  • Lubomir Dimitrov and
  • Vlastimir Nikolić

11 August 2026

Human presence in rail track areas represents a critical safety risk, particularly under low-visibility conditions where RGB-based monitoring systems become unreliable. This paper presents a thermal-only railway monitoring framework for human detecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing Technologies for Sustainable and Resilient Railway Infrastructures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,506 Views
20 Pages

Synergistic Integration of Skeletal Kinematic Features for Vision-Based Fall Detection

  • Anitha Rani Inturi,
  • Vazhora Malayil Manikandan,
  • Mahamkali Naveen Kumar,
  • Shuihua Wang and
  • Yudong Zhang

10 July 2023

According to the World Health Organisation, falling is a major health problem with potentially fatal implications. Each year, thousands of people die as a result of falls, with seniors making up 80% of these fatalities. The automatic detection of fal...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,379 Views
18 Pages

AI Based Monitoring of Different Risk Levels in COVID-19 Context

  • César Melo,
  • Sandra Dixe,
  • Jaime C. Fonseca,
  • António H. J. Moreira and
  • João Borges

31 December 2021

COVID-19 was responsible for devastating social, economic, and political effects all over the world. Although the health authorities imposed restrictions provided relief and assisted with trying to return society to normal life, it is imperative to m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Medical Image Processing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,121 Views
21 Pages

Federated Learning for Human Pose Estimation on Non-IID Data via Gradient Coordination

  • Peng Ni,
  • Dan Xiang,
  • Dawei Jiang,
  • Jianwei Sun and
  • Jingxiang Cui

12 July 2025

Human pose estimation is an important downstream task in computer vision, with significant applications in action recognition and virtual reality. However, data collected in a decentralized manner often exhibit non-independent and identically distrib...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,065 Views
16 Pages

26 September 2024

Two-dimensional human pose estimation aims to equip computers with the ability to accurately recognize human keypoints and comprehend their spatial contexts within media content. However, the accuracy of real-time human pose estimation diminishes whe...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,572 Views
18 Pages

Learning by Watching via Keypoint Extraction and Imitation Learning

  • Yin-Tung Albert Sun,
  • Hsin-Chang Lin,
  • Po-Yen Wu and
  • Jung-Tang Huang

9 November 2022

In recent years, the use of reinforcement learning and imitation learning to complete robot control tasks have become more popular. Demonstration and learning by experts have always been the goal of researchers. However, the lack of action data has b...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,073 Views
31 Pages

A Method for Human Pose Estimation and Joint Angle Computation Through Deep Learning

  • Ludovica Ciardiello,
  • Patrizia Agnello,
  • Marta Petyx,
  • Fabio Martinelli,
  • Mario Cesarelli,
  • Antonella Santone and
  • Francesco Mercaldo

Human pose estimation is a crucial task in computer vision with widespread applications in healthcare, rehabilitation, sports, and remote monitoring. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based method for automatic human pose estimation and joint...

(This article belongs to the Section AI in Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,175 Views
16 Pages

Human pose estimation is an important problem in computer vision because it is the foundation for many advanced semantic tasks and downstream applications. Although some convolutional neural network-based pose estimation methods have achieved good re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Computer Vision and Image Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,251 Views
24 Pages

10 February 2026

Human pose estimation is a core computer vision task with broad applications, yet its performance degrades significantly in crowded scenes and under heavy occlusion due to missing or unreliable visual evidence. To address this limitation, this work r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Pattern Recognition (3rd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,098 Views
15 Pages

A Unified Deep Framework for Joint 3D Pose Estimation and Action Recognition from a Single RGB Camera

  • Huy Hieu Pham,
  • Houssam Salmane,
  • Louahdi Khoudour,
  • Alain Crouzil,
  • Sergio A. Velastin and
  • Pablo Zegers

25 March 2020

We present a deep learning-based multitask framework for joint 3D human pose estimation and action recognition from RGB sensors using simple cameras. The approach proceeds along two stages. In the first, a real-time 2D pose detector is run to determi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Camera as a Smart-Sensor (CaaSS))
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,800 Views
15 Pages

Single Camera-Based Remote Physical Therapy: Verification on a Large Video Dataset

  • Jindrich Adolf,
  • Jaromir Dolezal,
  • Patrik Kutilek,
  • Jan Hejda and
  • Lenka Lhotska

13 January 2022

In recent years, several systems have been developed to capture human motion in real-time using common RGB cameras. This approach has great potential to become widespread among the general public as it allows the remote evaluation of exercise at no a...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,465 Views
25 Pages

3 November 2025

With the rapid advancement of aviation technology, modern aircraft cockpits are evolving toward high automation and intelligence, making pilot-cockpit interaction a critical factor influencing flight safety and efficiency. Pilot pose estimation and b...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,490 Views
27 Pages

MSBN-SPose: A Multi-Scale Bayesian Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Sitting Posture Recognition

  • Shu Wang,
  • Adriano Tavares,
  • Carlos Lima,
  • Tiago Gomes,
  • Yicong Zhang and
  • Yanchun Liang

30 September 2025

Posture recognition is critical in modern educational and office environments for preventing musculoskeletal disorders and maintaining cognitive performance. Existing methods based on human keypoint detection typically rely on convolutional neural ne...

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