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most citedSMPLer-X: Scaling Up Expressive Human Pose and Shape Estimation

29 citations · 30 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.RO2026

Has GPT-6-Astra Achieved Embodied Intelligence?

SenseNova, Joint Research Team, : +60

GPT-6-Astra demonstrates a level of competence in robotic manipulation and navigation that challenges the conventional paradigm of building specialized models for individual tasks…

cs.CV2026

Learning Native Reflection in Unified Models with Interleaved Reinforcement Learning

Yijia Fan, Ziqi Huang, Zhongang Cai +5

Unified multimodal models can both look at and render images, so in principle they can repair their own generations: diagnose what an image gets wrong, revise it, observe the resul…

cs.CV2026

VBVR-Pro: A Scalable and Verifiable Suite for Native Visual Reasoning

Junxiang Xu, Ruisi Wang, Fanyi Pu +49

Native visual reasoning treats visual generation as the medium of reasoning itself: visual states (i.e. images and videos) are not merely inputs to be understood or outputs to be r…

cs.CV2026

Demystifying Video Reasoning

Ruisi Wang, Zhongang Cai, Fanyi Pu +11

Recent advances in video generation have revealed an unexpected phenomenon: diffusion-based video models exhibit non-trivial reasoning capabilities. Prior work attributes this to a…

cs.CV2026

VLM-Guided Group Preference Alignment for Diffusion-based Human Mesh Recovery

Wenhao Shen, Hao Wang, Wanqi Yin +5

Human mesh recovery (HMR) from a single RGB image is inherently ambiguous, as multiple 3D poses can correspond to the same 2D observation. Recent diffusion-based methods tackle thi…

cs.CV2025

Scaling Spatial Intelligence with Multimodal Foundation Models

Zhongang Cai, Ruisi Wang, Chenyang Gu +26

Despite remarkable progress, multimodal foundation models still exhibit surprising deficiencies in spatial intelligence. In this work, we explore scaling up multimodal foundation m…

cs.CV2025

The Quest for Generalizable Motion Generation: Data, Model, and Evaluation

Jing Lin, Ruisi Wang, Junzhe Lu +10

Despite recent advances in 3D human motion generation (MoGen) on standard benchmarks, existing text-to-motion models still face a fundamental bottleneck in their generalization cap…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Holistic Evaluation of Multimodal LLMs on Spatial Intelligence

Zhongang Cai, Yubo Wang, Qingping Sun +21

Multimodal models have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. Nevertheless, they continue to exhibit notable limitations in spatial understanding and reasoning, the very cap…

cs.CV2025

ADHMR: Aligning Diffusion-based Human Mesh Recovery via Direct Preference Optimization

Wenhao Shen, Wanqi Yin, Xiaofeng Yang +6

Human mesh recovery (HMR) from a single image is inherently ill-posed due to depth ambiguity and occlusions. Probabilistic methods have tried to solve this by generating numerous p…

cs.CV2025

SMPLest-X: Ultimate Scaling for Expressive Human Pose and Shape Estimation

Wanqi Yin, Zhongang Cai, Ruisi Wang +12

Expressive human pose and shape estimation (EHPS) unifies body, hands, and face motion capture with numerous applications. Despite encouraging progress, current state-of-the-art me…

cs.CV2024

AiOS: All-in-One-Stage Expressive Human Pose and Shape Estimation

Qingping Sun, Yanjun Wang, Ailing Zeng +8

Expressive human pose and shape estimation (a.k.a. 3D whole-body mesh recovery) involves the human body, hand, and expression estimation. Most existing methods have tackled this ta…

cs.CV2024

WHAC: World-grounded Humans and Cameras

Wanqi Yin, Zhongang Cai, Ruisi Wang +9

Estimating human and camera trajectories with accurate scale in the world coordinate system from a monocular video is a highly desirable yet challenging and ill-posed problem. In t…

cs.CV2023

Digital Life Project: Autonomous 3D Characters with Social Intelligence

Zhongang Cai, Jianping Jiang, Zhongfei Qing +20

In this work, we present Digital Life Project, a framework utilizing language as the universal medium to build autonomous 3D characters, who are capable of engaging in social inter…

cs.CV2023★ 29 cited

SMPLer-X: Scaling Up Expressive Human Pose and Shape Estimation

Zhongang Cai, Wanqi Yin, Ailing Zeng +10

Expressive human pose and shape estimation (EHPS) unifies body, hands, and face motion capture with numerous applications. Despite encouraging progress, current state-of-the-art me…

cs.CV2023

PointHPS: Cascaded 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation from Point Clouds

Zhongang Cai, Liang Pan, Chen Wei +6

Human pose and shape estimation (HPS) has attracted increasing attention in recent years. While most existing studies focus on HPS from 2D images or videos with inherent depth ambi…

cs.CV2023

DNA-Rendering: A Diverse Neural Actor Repository for High-Fidelity Human-centric Rendering

Wei Cheng, Ruixiang Chen, Wanqi Yin +18

Realistic human-centric rendering plays a key role in both computer vision and computer graphics. Rapid progress has been made in the algorithm aspect over the years, yet existing…