Awesome 3D Body Papers

An awesome & curated list of papers about 3D human body.

:point_right: Note: see paper list sorted by year or publication.

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Table of Contents

• Body Model
• Body Pose
• Naked Body Mesh
• Clothed Body Mesh
• Human Depth Estimation
• Human Motion
• Human-Object Interaction
• Animation
• Cloth/Try-On
• Neural Rendering
• Dataset

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Body Model

SCAPE: Shape Completion and Animation of People. SIGGRAPH, 2005. [Page]

SMPL: A Skinned Multi-Person Linear Model. SIGGRAPH Asia, 2015. [Page] [Code]

Expressive Body Capture: 3D Hands, Face, and Body from a Single Image. CVPR, 2019. [Page] [Code]

SoftSMPL: Data-driven Modeling of Nonlinear Soft-tissue Dynamics for Parametric Humans. Eurographics, 2020. [Page]

Modeling and Estimation of Nonlinear Skin Mechanics for Animated Avatars. Eurographics, 2020. [Page]

STAR: Sparse Trained Articulated Human Body Regressor. ECCV, 2020. [Page] [Code]

SUPR: A Sparse Unified Part-Based Human Representation. ECCV, 2022. [Page] [Code]

BLSM: A Bone-Level Skinned Model of the Human Mesh. ECCV, 2020. [Page]

Joint Optimization for Multi-Person Shape Models from Markerless 3D-Scans. ECCV, 2020. [Code]

GHUM & GHUML: Generative 3D Human Shape and Articulated Pose Models. CVPR (Oral), 2020. [Code]

PanoMan: Sparse Localized Components–based Model for Full Human Motions. ToG, 2021.

BASH: Biomechanical Animated Skinned Human for Visualization of Kinematics and Muscle Activity. GRAPP, 2021. [Code]

SMPLicit: Topology-aware Generative Model for Clothed People. CVPR, 2021. [Page] [Code]

NPMs: Neural Parametric Models for 3D Deformable Shapes. ArXiv, 2021. [Page]

LatentHuman: Shape-and-Pose Disentangled Latent Representation for Human Bodies. 3DV, 2021. [Page] [Code]

LEAP: Learning Articulated Occupancy of People. CVPR, 2021. [Page] [Code]

SCALE: Modeling Clothed Humans with a Surface Codec of Articulated Local Elements. CVPR, 2021. [Page]

Body Pose

MotioNet: 3D Human Motion Reconstruction from Monocular Video with Skeleton Consistency. ToG, 2020. [Page] [Code]

VNect: Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Camera. SIGGRAPH Asia, 2017. [Page] [Code]

XNect: Real-time Multi-person 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Camera. SIGGRAPH, 2020. [Page] [Code]

PhysCap: Physically Plausible Monocular 3D Motion Capture in Real Time. SIGGRAPH Asia, 2020. [Page] [Code]

Neural Monocular 3D Human Motion Capture with Physical Awareness. SIGGRAPH, 2021. [Page] [Code]

PoseAug: A Differentiable Pose Augmentation Framework for 3D Human Pose Estimation. CVPR (Oral), 2021. [Page] [Code]

Cascaded Deep Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation with Evolutionary Training Data. CVPR, 2020. [Code]

PoseLifter: Absolute 3D Human Pose Lifting Network from a Single Noisy 2D Human Pose. ArXiv, 2020. [Code]

SRNet: Improving Generalization in 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Split-and-Recombine Approach. ECCV, 2020. [Code]

Probabilistic Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation with Normalizing Flows. ICCV, 2021. [Code]

Learning Skeletal Graph Neural Networks for Hard 3D Pose Estimation. ICCV, 2021. [Code]

Learnable Triangulation of Human Pose. ICCV (Oral), 2019. [Code]

FLEX: Parameter-free Multi-view 3D Human Motion Reconstruction. ArXiv, 2021. [Page]

Weakly-supervised Cross-view 3D Human Pose Estimation. ArXiv, 2021.

High Fidelity 3D Reconstructions with Limited Physical Views. 3DV, 2021. [Page] [Code]

Compressed Volumetric Heatmaps for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation. CVPR, 2020. [Code]

PandaNet: Anchor-Based Single-Shot Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation. ArXiv, 2021.

SMAP: Single-Shot Multi-Person Absolute 3D Pose Estimation. ECCV, 2020. [Page] [Code]

PI-Net: Pose Interacting Network for Multi-Person Monocular 3D Pose Estimation. WACV, 2021.

Monocular 3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation by Integrating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Networks. CVPR, 2021. [Code]

FCPose: Fully Convolutional Multi-Person Pose Estimation with Dynamic Instance-Aware Convolutions. CVPR, 2021. [Code]

End-to-End Estimation of Multi-Person 3D Poses from Multiple Cameras. ECCV (Oral), 2020.

Multi-person 3D Pose Estimation in Crowded Scenes Based on Multi-View Geometry. ArXiv, 2020. [Code]

Multi-View Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation with Plane Sweep Stereo. CVPR, 2021. [Code]

Direct Multi-view Multi-person 3D Human Pose Estimation. NeurIPS, 2021. [Code]

Fast and Robust Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation from Multiple Views. CVPR, 2019. [Page] [Code]

Fast and Robust Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation from Multiple Views. TPAMI, 2021. [Page] [Code]

Temporal Smoothing for 3D Human Pose Estimation and Localization for Occluded People. ArXiv, 2020. [Code]

Attention Mechanism Exploits Temporal Contexts: Real-time 3D Human Pose Reconstruction. CVPR (Oral), 2020. [Code]

3D Human Pose Estimation with Spatial and Temporal Transformers. ArXiv, 2021. [Code]

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