One Sensor, Whole Body - 3D Body Pose from a Single Consumer Earbud IMU

arXiv:2609.34978 · cs.CV, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/ZhilinGuo/one-sensor-whole-body

Terminology

• Calibration — 11× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 5× in this paper
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• CVF International Conference on Computer Vision — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Personalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Physical Inertial Poser — 1× in this paper
• Pseudo-labeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Zero-Shot Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• HMD-Poser: On-Device Real-time Human Motion Tracking from Scalable Sparse Observations
• Ground Reaction Inertial Poser: Physics-based Human Motion Capture from Sparse IMUs and Insole Pressure Sensors
• EgoPoser: Robust Real-Time Egocentric Pose Estimation from Sparse and Intermittent Observations Everywhere
• IMUPoser: Full-Body Pose Estimation using IMUs in Phones, Watches, and Earbuds
• Estimating Lower Body Kinematics using a Lie Group Constrained Extended Kalman Filter and Reduced IMU Count
• MobilePoser: Real-Time Full-Body Pose Estimation and 3D Human Translation from IMUs in Mobile Consumer Devices
• DivaTrack: Diverse Bodies and Motions from Acceleration-Enhanced Three-Point Trackers
• SAM 3D Body: Robust Full-Body Human Mesh Recovery
• Dynamic Inertial Poser (DynaIP): Part-Based Motion Dynamics Learning for Enhanced Human Pose Estimation with Sparse Inertial Sensors
• Progressive Inertial Poser: Progressive Real-Time Kinematic Chain Estimation for 3D Full-Body Pose from Three IMU Sensors

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