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SAM-Body4D: Training-Free 4D Human Body Mesh Recovery from Videos

arXiv 2512.08406 ↗First posted 9 Dec 2025cs.CVcited by 8

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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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  12. 2024TRAM: Global Trajectory and Motion of 3D Humans from in-the-wild Videoscited by 105
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  1. 2024TokenHMR: Advancing Human Mesh Recovery with a Tokenized Pose Representationcited by 93
  2. 2025PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recoverycited by 70
  3. 2024Using Diffusion Priors for Video Amodal Segmentationcited by 15
  4. 2024MEGA: Masked Generative Autoencoder for Human Mesh Recoverycited by 13

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