PHD: Personalized 3D Human Body Fitting with Point Diffusion

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Main Authors: Ho, Hsuan-I, Guo, Chen, Wu, Po-Chen, Shugurov, Ivan, Tang, Chengcheng, Mittal, Abhay, An, Sizhe, Kaufmann, Manuel, Zhang, Linguang
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author Ho, Hsuan-I
Guo, Chen
Wu, Po-Chen
Shugurov, Ivan
Tang, Chengcheng
Mittal, Abhay
An, Sizhe
Kaufmann, Manuel
Zhang, Linguang
author_facet Ho, Hsuan-I
Guo, Chen
Wu, Po-Chen
Shugurov, Ivan
Tang, Chengcheng
Mittal, Abhay
An, Sizhe
Kaufmann, Manuel
Zhang, Linguang
contents We introduce PHD, a novel approach for personalized 3D human mesh recovery (HMR) and body fitting that leverages user-specific shape information to improve pose estimation accuracy from videos. Traditional HMR methods are designed to be user-agnostic and optimized for generalization. While these methods often refine poses using constraints derived from the 2D image to improve alignment, this process compromises 3D accuracy by failing to jointly account for person-specific body shapes and the plausibility of 3D poses. In contrast, our pipeline decouples this process by first calibrating the user's body shape and then employing a personalized pose fitting process conditioned on that shape. To achieve this, we develop a body shape-conditioned 3D pose prior, implemented as a Point Diffusion Transformer, which iteratively guides the pose fitting via a Point Distillation Sampling loss. This learned 3D pose prior effectively mitigates errors arising from an over-reliance on 2D constraints. Consequently, our approach improves not only pelvis-aligned pose accuracy but also absolute pose accuracy -- an important metric often overlooked by prior work. Furthermore, our method is highly data-efficient, requiring only synthetic data for training, and serves as a versatile plug-and-play module that can be seamlessly integrated with existing 3D pose estimators to enhance their performance. Project page: https://phd-pose.github.io/
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spellingShingle PHD: Personalized 3D Human Body Fitting with Point Diffusion
Ho, Hsuan-I
Guo, Chen
Wu, Po-Chen
Shugurov, Ivan
Tang, Chengcheng
Mittal, Abhay
An, Sizhe
Kaufmann, Manuel
Zhang, Linguang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We introduce PHD, a novel approach for personalized 3D human mesh recovery (HMR) and body fitting that leverages user-specific shape information to improve pose estimation accuracy from videos. Traditional HMR methods are designed to be user-agnostic and optimized for generalization. While these methods often refine poses using constraints derived from the 2D image to improve alignment, this process compromises 3D accuracy by failing to jointly account for person-specific body shapes and the plausibility of 3D poses. In contrast, our pipeline decouples this process by first calibrating the user's body shape and then employing a personalized pose fitting process conditioned on that shape. To achieve this, we develop a body shape-conditioned 3D pose prior, implemented as a Point Diffusion Transformer, which iteratively guides the pose fitting via a Point Distillation Sampling loss. This learned 3D pose prior effectively mitigates errors arising from an over-reliance on 2D constraints. Consequently, our approach improves not only pelvis-aligned pose accuracy but also absolute pose accuracy -- an important metric often overlooked by prior work. Furthermore, our method is highly data-efficient, requiring only synthetic data for training, and serves as a versatile plug-and-play module that can be seamlessly integrated with existing 3D pose estimators to enhance their performance. Project page: https://phd-pose.github.io/
title PHD: Personalized 3D Human Body Fitting with Point Diffusion
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21257