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 # KAMA: 3D Keypoint Aware Body Mesh Articulation

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 We present KAMA, a 3D Keypoint Aware Mesh Articulation approach that allows us to estimate a human body mesh from the positions of 3D body keypoints. To this end, we learn to estimate 3D positions of 26 body keypoints and propose an analytical solution to articulate a parametric body model, SMPL, via a set of straightforward geometric transformations. Since keypoint estimation directly relies on image clues, our approach offers significantly better alignment to image content when compared to state-of-the-art approaches. Our proposed approach does not require any paired mesh annotations and is able to achieve state-of-the-art mesh fittings through 3D keypoint regression only. Results on the challenging 3DPW and Human3.6M demonstrate that our approach yields state-of-the-art body mesh fittings.



 ## Authors



[Umar Iqbal](/person/umar-iqbal)

Kevin Xie (NVDIA)

Kelly Guo (NVIDIA)

[Jan Kautz](/person/jan-kautz)

[Pavlo Molchanov](/person/pavlo-molchanov)

 

 

 ## Publication Date



Wednesday, December 1, 2021

 

 ## Published in



[International Conference on 3D Vision](https://3dv2021.surrey.ac.uk/)

 

 ## Research Area



[Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ](/research-area/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence)

[Computer Graphics](/research-area/computer-graphics)

[Computer Vision](/research-area/computer-vision)

 

 

 ## External Links



[ArXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13502)

 

 

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