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Distribution-Aligned Diffusion for Human Mesh Recovery

arXiv 2308.13369 ↗First posted 25 Aug 2023cs.CVcited by 27

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Abstract (arXiv)

Recovering a 3D human mesh from a single RGB image is a challenging task due to depth ambiguity and self-occlusion, resulting in a high degree of uncertainty. Meanwhile, diffusion models have recently seen much success in generating high-quality outputs by progressively denoising noisy inputs. Inspired by their capability, we explore a diffusion-based approach for human mesh recovery, and propose a Human Mesh Diffusion (HMDiff) framework which frames mesh recovery as a reverse diffusion process. We also propose a Distribution Alignment Technique (DAT) that infuses prior distribution information into the mesh distribution diffusion process, and provides useful prior knowledge to facilitate the mesh recovery task. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on three widely used datasets. Project page: https://gongjia0208.github.io/HMDiff/.

Key facts. Cited by 27 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 43 of its 66 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 25 Aug 2023.

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  1. 2024SPAD : Spatially Aware Multiview Diffuserscited by 62
  2. 2024RoHM: Robust Human Motion Reconstruction via Diffusioncited by 48
  3. 2023Egocentric Whole-Body Motion Capture with FisheyeViT and Diffusion-Based Motion Refinementcited by 31
  4. 2024HMD^2: Environment-aware Motion Generation from Single Egocentric Head-Mounted Devicecited by 27
  5. 2023AI-Generated Content (AIGC) for Various Data Modalities: A Surveycited by 25
  6. 2024Diff-Tracker: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Unsupervised Trackerscited by 24
  7. 2024DPMesh: Exploiting Diffusion Prior for Occluded Human Mesh Recoverycited by 17
  8. 2026Physical Simulator In-the-Loop Video Generationcited by 14
  9. 2024Action Detection via an Image Diffusion Processcited by 11
  10. 2025ScoreHOI: Physically Plausible Reconstruction of Human-Object Interaction via Score-Guided Diffusioncited by 9
  11. 2025Visual Prompting for One-shot Controllable Video Editing without Inversioncited by 8
  12. 2025ADHMR: Aligning Diffusion-based Human Mesh Recovery via Direct Preference Optimizationcited by 7
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  1. 2025DiSRT-In-Bed: Diffusion-Based Sim-to-Real Transfer Framework for In-Bed Human Mesh Recoverycited by 6
  2. 2025An Image-like Diffusion Method for Human-Object Interaction Detectioncited by 5
  3. 2024Utilizing Uncertainty in 2D Pose Detectors for Probabilistic 3D Human Mesh Recoverycited by 4
  4. 2025FastHMR: Accelerating Human Mesh Recovery via Token and Layer Merging with Diffusion Decodingcited by 4
  5. 2024GPT-Connect: Interaction between Text-Driven Human Motion Generator and 3D Scenes in a Training-free Mannercited by 3
  6. 2024DiffSurf: A Transformer-based Diffusion Model for Generating and Reconstructing 3D Surfaces in Posecited by 3
  7. 2025MeshMamba: State Space Models for Articulated 3D Mesh Generation and Reconstructioncited by 2
  8. 2026VLM-Guided Group Preference Alignment for Diffusion-based Human Mesh Recoverycited by 2
  9. 2025Gait Recognition via Collaborating Discriminative and Generative Diffusion Modelscited by 1
  10. 2026DiffProxy: Multi-View Human Mesh Recovery via Diffusion-Generated Dense Proxiescited by 1
  11. 2025Cascaded Diffusion Framework for Probabilistic Coarse-to-Fine Hand Pose Estimationcited by 0
  12. 2026Flexible Geometric Guidance for Probabilistic Human Pose Estimation with Diffusion Modelscited by 0
  13. 2026Discriminative-Generative Synergy for Occlusion Robust 3D Human Mesh Recoverycited by 0
  14. 2026HumanFlow -- Diffusion-Driven MAV Navigation Among Humans via Tightly-Coupled Motion Tracking, Forecasting, and Controlcited by 0
  15. 2026Training-free Controllable Human Motion Generation under Heterogeneous Constraintscited by 0

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