DreamPose3D: Hallucinative Diffusion with Prompt Learning for 3D Human Pose Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09502v1
• Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:58:37 GMT
• Title: DreamPose3D: Hallucinative Diffusion with Prompt Learning for 3D Human Pose Estimation
• Authors: Jerrin Bright, Yuhao Chen, John S. Zelek,
• Abstract summary: We introduce DreamPose3D, a diffusion-based framework that combines action-aware reasoning with temporal imagination for 3D pose estimation.<n>DreamPose3D dynamically conditions the denoising process using task-relevant action prompts extracted from 2D pose sequences, capturing high-level intent.<n>To model the structural relationships between joints effectively, we introduce a representation encoder that incorporates kinematic joint affinity into the attention mechanism.<n>A hallucinative pose decoder predicts temporally coherent 3D pose during training, simulating how humans mentally reconstruct motion trajectories to resolve ambiguity in perception.
• Score: 18.240580699213197
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurate 3D human pose estimation remains a critical yet unresolved challenge, requiring both temporal coherence across frames and fine-grained modeling of joint relationships. However, most existing methods rely solely on geometric cues and predict each 3D pose independently, which limits their ability to resolve ambiguous motions and generalize to real-world scenarios. Inspired by how humans understand and anticipate motion, we introduce DreamPose3D, a diffusion-based framework that combines action-aware reasoning with temporal imagination for 3D pose estimation. DreamPose3D dynamically conditions the denoising process using task-relevant action prompts extracted from 2D pose sequences, capturing high-level intent. To model the structural relationships between joints effectively, we introduce a representation encoder that incorporates kinematic joint affinity into the attention mechanism. Finally, a hallucinative pose decoder predicts temporally coherent 3D pose sequences during training, simulating how humans mentally reconstruct motion trajectories to resolve ambiguity in perception. Extensive experiments on benchmarked Human3.6M and MPI-3DHP datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across all metrics. To further validate DreamPose3D's robustness, we tested it on a broadcast baseball dataset, where it demonstrated strong performance despite ambiguous and noisy 2D inputs, effectively handling temporal consistency and intent-driven motion variations.

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