Pose estimation / Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Dream Machine by Luma: New AI Video Generation Platform

14 June 2024

Dream Machine by Luma: New AI Video Generation Platform

Dream Machine by Luma AI is an advanced AI model designed to create high-quality, realistic, and fantastical videos from text instructions and images. Built on a scalable, efficient, and multimodal…

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics Introduce Reachy2 – an Open-Source Robot for Household Tasks

10 June 2024

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics Introduce Reachy2 – an Open-Source Robot for Household Tasks

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics unveiled the anthropomorphic robot Reachy2, whose training dataset and model are open-source. Reachy2 performs household tasks and interacts safely with people and pets. Pollen Robotics…

Microsoft VASA-1: Platform for Animating Static Images

21 April 2024

Microsoft VASA-1: Platform for Animating Static Images

Microsoft has introduced the VASA-1 platform, which transforms a person’s image and audio recording with speech into a video with synchronized lip and head movements. The algorithm operates in real-time…

Open Source 3D Human Pose Estimation Approach with Self-Supervised Learning

14 March 2019

Open Source 3D Human Pose Estimation Approach with Self-Supervised Learning

Human pose estimation is a fundamental problem in Computer Vision. Deriving a 3D Human pose out of single RGB image is needed in many real-world application scenarios, especially within the…

New Datasets for 3D Human Pose Estimation

8 November 2018

New Datasets for 3D Human Pose Estimation

Human pose estimation is а fundamental problem in computer vision. Computer’s ability to recognize and understand humans in images and videos is crucial for multiple tasks including autonomous driving, action…

Learning Physical Skills from Youtube Videos using Deep Reinforcement Learning

6 November 2018

Learning Physical Skills from Youtube Videos using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Realistic, humanlike chracters represent a very important area of computer animation. These characters are vital components of many applications, such as cartoons, computer games, cinematic special effects, virtual reality,…

Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wild

23 August 2018

Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wild

Scene understanding is one of the holy grails of computer vision. A lot of research has been done towards the ultimate goal of understanding a scene given an image. Inferring…

Synthesising Images of Humans in Unseen Poses

19 July 2018

Synthesising Images of Humans in Unseen Poses

Humans have an incredible capability to imagine things in a different context. At the core of our intelligence are the imagination and learning from experience. Both of these things are…

Inferring a 3D Human Pose out of a 2D Image with FBI

16 July 2018

3D pose estimation based on 2D joints and Forward-or-Backward Information (FBI) for each bone

Inferring a 3D Human Pose out of a 2D Image with FBI

Autonomous driving, virtual reality, human-computer interaction and video surveillance — these are all application scenarios, where you would like to derive a 3D human pose out of a single RGB…

“Seeing Beyond Walls” — Human Pose Estimation Under Occlusions

21 June 2018

“Seeing Beyond Walls” — Human Pose Estimation Under Occlusions

Being able to see beyond walls has been considered superhuman power, seen in many sci-fi movies in the past. In 2011, researchers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that they…