SAM-Body4D: Training-Free 4D Human Body Mesh Recovery from Videos
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Abstract (arXiv)
Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) aims to reconstruct 3D human pose and shape from 2D observations and is fundamental to human-centric understanding in real-world scenarios. While recent image-based HMR methods such as SAM 3D Body achieve strong robustness on in-the-wild images, they rely on per-frame inference when applied to videos, leading to temporal inconsistency and degraded performance under occlusions. We address these issues without extra training by leveraging the inherent human continuity in videos. We propose SAM-Body4D, a training-free framework for temporally consistent and occlusion-robust HMR from videos. We first generate identity-consistent masklets using a promptable video segmentation model, then refine them with an Occlusion-Aware module to recover missing regions. The refined masklets guide SAM 3D Body to produce consistent full-body mesh trajectories, while a padding-based parallel strategy enables efficient multi-human inference. Experimental results demonstrate that SAM-Body4D achieves improved temporal stability and robustness in challenging in-the-wild videos, without any retraining. Our code and demo are available at: https://github.com/gaomingqi/sam-body4d.
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- 2023Segment Anythingcited by 8,158
- 2024SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videoscited by 2,784
- 2019Expressive Body Capture: 3D Hands, Face, and Body from a Single Imagecited by 1,600
- 2017End-to-end Recovery of Human Shape and Posecited by 883
- 2019VIBE: Video Inference for Human Body Pose and Shape Estimationcited by 615
- 2019Video Object Segmentation using Space-Time Memory Networkscited by 436
- 2022XMem: Long-Term Video Object Segmentation with an Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Modelcited by 436
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- 2018Learning to Estimate 3D Human Pose and Shape from a Single Color Imagecited by 226
- 2023Putting the Object Back into Video Object Segmentationcited by 182
- 2021A Survey on Deep Learning Technique for Video Segmentationcited by 132
- 2024TRAM: Global Trajectory and Motion of 3D Humans from in-the-wild Videoscited by 105
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- 2024TokenHMR: Advancing Human Mesh Recovery with a Tokenized Pose Representationcited by 93
- 2025PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recoverycited by 70
- 2024Using Diffusion Priors for Video Amodal Segmentationcited by 15
- 2024MEGA: Masked Generative Autoencoder for Human Mesh Recoverycited by 13
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Citing papers per year: 2026: 8.
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- 2026SAM 3D Animal: Promptable Animal 3D Reconstruction from Images in the Wildcited by 2
- 2026EgoExo-WM: Unlocking Exo Video for Ego World Modelscited by 2
- 2026SUGAR: A Scalable Human-Video-Driven Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Learning Frameworkcited by 1
- 2026MHRGait: Gait Recognition from Momentum Human Rig Posecited by 1
- 2026SAM4Dcap: Training-free Biomechanical Twin System from Monocular Videocited by 0
- 2026Towards Automated Initial Probe Placement in Transthoracic Teleultrasound Using Human Mesh and Skeleton Recoverycited by 0
- 2026AnyAct: Towards Human Reenactment of Character Motion From Videocited by 0
- 2026FlowDance: Music-Driven Dance Video Generation with Parallel Pose and RGB Streamscited by 0
- 2026FlowDance: Music-Driven Dance Video Generation with Parallel Pose and RGB Streams16 Aug 2026
- 2026MHRGait: Gait Recognition from Momentum Human Rig Pose31 Jul 2026
- 2026SUGAR: A Scalable Human-Video-Driven Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Learning Framework19 May 2026
- 2026AnyAct: Towards Human Reenactment of Character Motion From Video15 May 2026
- 2026EgoExo-WM: Unlocking Exo Video for Ego World Models14 May 2026
- 2026SAM 3D Animal: Promptable Animal 3D Reconstruction from Images in the Wild8 May 2026
- 2026Towards Automated Initial Probe Placement in Transthoracic Teleultrasound Using Human Mesh and Skeleton Recovery11 Mar 2026
- 2026SAM4Dcap: Training-free Biomechanical Twin System from Monocular Video14 Feb 2026