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A Survey on 3D Egocentric Human Pose Estimation

arXiv 2403.17893 ↗First posted 26 Mar 2024cs.CVcited by 8

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Abstract (arXiv)

Egocentric human pose estimation aims to estimate human body poses and develop body representations from a first-person camera perspective. It has gained vast popularity in recent years because of its wide range of applications in sectors like XR-technologies, human-computer interaction, and fitness tracking. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no systematic literature review based on the proposed solutions regarding egocentric 3D human pose estimation. To that end, the aim of this survey paper is to provide an extensive overview of the current state of egocentric pose estimation research. In this paper, we categorize and discuss the popular datasets and the different pose estimation models, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of different methods by comparative analysis. This survey can be a valuable resource for both researchers and practitioners in the field, offering insights into key concepts and cutting-edge solutions in egocentric pose estimation, its wide-ranging applications, as well as the open problems with future scope.

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References · 57

  1. 2019Expressive Body Capture: 3D Hands, Face, and Body from a Single Imagecited by 1,600
  2. 2019Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimationcited by 1,339
  3. 2019AMASS: Archive of Motion Capture as Surface Shapescited by 1,208
  4. 2018OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fieldscited by 1,161
  5. 2019Scene Representation Networks: Continuous 3D-Structure-Aware Neural Scene Representationscited by 864
  6. 2016Keep it SMPL: Automatic Estimation of 3D Human Pose and Shape from a Single Imagecited by 692
  7. 2018DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wildcited by 573
  8. 2016Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation In The Wild Using Improved CNN Supervisioncited by 493
  9. 2023Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectivescited by 477
  10. 2017A simple yet effective baseline for 3d human pose estimationcited by 401
  11. 2017Learning from Synthetic Humanscited by 358
  12. 2013DeepPose: Human Pose Estimation via Deep Neural Networkscited by 305
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  1. 2020ARCH: Animatable Reconstruction of Clothed Humanscited by 257
  2. 2019Deferred Neural Rendering: Image Synthesis using Neural Texturescited by 253
  3. 2020PaMIR: Parametric Model-Conditioned Implicit Representation for Image-based Human Reconstructioncited by 231
  4. 2020Deep Learning-Based Human Pose Estimation: A Surveycited by 205
  5. 2020Long-term Human Motion Prediction with Scene Contextcited by 191
  6. 2021Human POSEitioning System (HPS): 3D Human Pose Estimation and Self-localization in Large Scenes from Body-Mounted Sensorscited by 137
  7. 2021EgoBody: Human Body Shape and Motion of Interacting People from Head-Mounted Devicescited by 136
  8. 2017Compositional Human Pose Regressioncited by 124
  9. 2018Ordinal Depth Supervision for 3D Human Pose Estimationcited by 107
  10. 2022AvatarPoser: Articulated Full-Body Pose Tracking from Sparse Motion Sensingcited by 107
  11. 2023Avatars Grow Legs: Generating Smooth Human Motion from Sparse Tracking Inputs with Diffusion Modelcited by 104
  12. 2022Recovering 3D Human Mesh from Monocular Images: A Surveycited by 103
  13. 2021Dynamics-Regulated Kinematic Policy for Egocentric Pose Estimationcited by 101
  14. 2021Ego-Exo: Transferring Visual Representations from Third-person to First-person Videoscited by 98
  15. 2018DoubleFusion: Real-time Capture of Human Performances with Inner Body Shapes from a Single Depth Sensorcited by 95
  16. 2022Ego-Body Pose Estimation via Ego-Head Pose Estimationcited by 93
  17. 2017Towards Accurate Markerless Human Shape and Pose Estimation over Timecited by 92
  18. 2019Ego-Pose Estimation and Forecasting as Real-Time PD Controlcited by 87
  19. 2023AvatarReX: Real-time Expressive Full-body Avatarscited by 83
  20. 2019You2Me: Inferring Body Pose in Egocentric Video via First and Second Person Interactionscited by 82
  21. 2019xR-EgoPose: Egocentric 3D Human Pose from an HMD Cameracited by 78
  22. 2018Learning Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation from Multi-view Imagescited by 70
  23. 2018Mo2Cap2: Real-time Mobile 3D Motion Capture with a Cap-mounted Fisheye Cameracited by 67
  24. 2021Estimating Egocentric 3D Human Pose in Global Spacecited by 56
  25. 2022UnrealEgo: A New Dataset for Robust Egocentric 3D Human Motion Capturecited by 56
  26. 2022FLAG: Flow-based 3D Avatar Generation from Sparse Observationscited by 54
  27. 2020SelfPose: 3D Egocentric Pose Estimation from a Headset Mounted Cameracited by 49
  28. 2016Seeing Invisible Poses: Estimating 3D Body Pose from Egocentric Videocited by 45
  29. 2016Structured Prediction of 3D Human Pose with Deep Neural Networkscited by 43
  30. 2021HVTR: Hybrid Volumetric-Textural Rendering for Human Avatarscited by 33
  31. 2022Estimating Egocentric 3D Human Pose in the Wild with External Weak Supervisioncited by 33
  32. 2023Probabilistic Human Mesh Recovery in 3D Scenes from Egocentric Viewscited by 33
  33. 2022Scene-aware Egocentric 3D Human Pose Estimationcited by 30
  34. 2024Mocap Everyone Everywhere: Lightweight Motion Capture With Smartwatches and a Head-Mounted Cameracited by 30
  35. 2021Egocentric Pose Estimation from Human Vision Spancited by 27
  36. 2019Analysis of the hands in egocentric vision: A surveycited by 25
  37. 2016EgoCap: Egocentric Marker-less Motion Capture with Two Fisheye Cameras (Extended Abstract)cited by 24
  38. 20233D Human Pose Perception from Egocentric Stereo Videoscited by 23

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Citing papers per year: 2025: 4; 2026: 4.

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  1. 2025Challenges and Trends in Egocentric Vision: A Surveycited by 20
  2. 2025Event-based Egocentric Human Pose Estimation in Dynamic Environmentcited by 1
  3. 2026Egocentric Visibility-Aware Human Pose Estimationcited by 1
  4. 20253D Human Pose and Shape Estimation from LiDAR Point Clouds: A Reviewcited by 0
  5. 2025A Topology-Aware Graph Convolutional Network for Human Pose Similarity and Action Quality Assessmentcited by 0
  6. 2026EgoPoseVR: Spatiotemporal Multi-Modal Reasoning for Egocentric Full-Body Pose in Virtual Realitycited by 0
  7. 2026AG-EgoPose: Spatially Anchored Residual Correction with Action Context for Monocular Egocentric 3D Pose Estimationcited by 0
  8. 2026TSR-Ego: Temporally Guided Stereo Refinement Framework for Egocentric 3D Human Pose Estimationcited by 0