NCSTR: Node-Centric Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Reasoning for Video-based Human Pose Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20323v1
• Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:49:37 GMT
• Title: NCSTR: Node-Centric Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Reasoning for Video-based Human Pose Estimation
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel framework that integrates visual, temporal and structural reasoning for accurate pose estimation.<n>We show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on three widely used video pose benchmarks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Video-based human pose estimation remains challenged by motion blur, occlusion, and complex spatiotemporal dynamics. Existing methods often rely on heatmaps or implicit spatio-temporal feature aggregation, which limits joint topology expressiveness and weakens cross-frame consistency. To address these problems, we propose a novel node-centric framework that explicitly integrates visual, temporal, and structural reasoning for accurate pose estimation. First, we design a visuo-temporal velocity-based joint embedding that fuses sub-pixel joint cues and inter-frame motion to build appearance- and motion-aware representations. Then, we introduce an attention-driven pose-query encoder, which applies attention over joint-wise heatmaps and frame-wise features to map the joint representations into a pose-aware node space, generating image-conditioned joint-aware node embeddings. Building upon these node embeddings, we propose a dual-branch decoupled spatio-temporal attention graph that models temporal propagation and spatial constraint reasoning in specialized local and global branches. Finally, a node-space expert fusion module is proposed to adaptively fuse the complementary outputs from both branches, integrating local and global cues for final joint predictions. Extensive experiments on three widely used video pose benchmarks demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods. The results highlight the value of explicit node-centric reasoning, offering a new perspective for advancing video-based human pose estimation.

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