Absolute-scale 3D human pose estimation from monocular videos via relative depth priors and multi-frame fusion
摘要
3D human pose estimation from monocular video is a core task in computer vision and virtual reality. Recovering poses with absolute metric scale remains challenging due to depth and scale ambiguities. Existing methods often rely on depth sensors or dense annotations, limiting real-world deployment. Here, we present a multi-frame framework for absolute-scale 3D human pose estimation using only relative depth priors and sparse supervision. The model integrates a depth-scale recovery module and temporal feature fusion to resolve scale ambiguity without absolute depth annotations. We show the method achieves 48.3 mm MPJPE and 36.7 mm PA-MPJPE on Human3.6M, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches. This lightweight, annotation-efficient solution supports applications in smart sports, human–computer interaction, and virtual reality, broadening the deployment scope of monocular 3D pose systems. The code for our model implementation can be found at: https://github.com/gitcodepapers/MFM3DposeNet.