Publications

Research outputs and technical references.

Public papers, project reports, dataset notes, and other technical evidence for our tracking systems.

arXiv preprint - 2026

Amortized Inverse Kinematics via Graph Attention for Real-Time Human Avatar Animation

Khan, Muhammad Saif Ullah and Wang, Chen-Yu and Prokosch, Tim and Lorenz, Micheal and Taetz, Bertram and Stricker, Didier

Introducing a fast and accurate graph-attention network for inverse kinematics that reconstructs full-body joint orientations from 3D joint positions.

Preprint Open

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) - 2026

SIMSPINE: A Biomechanics-Aware Simulation Framework for 3D Spine Motion Annotation and Benchmarking

Khan, Muhammad Saif Ullah and Stricker, Didier

Introducing SIMSPINE, a biomechanics-aware simulation framework and dataset for 3D spine motion annotation, enabling data-driven learning of vertebral kinematics from natural full-body motions.

Conference paper Open

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops - 2025

Towards Unconstrained 2D Pose Estimation of the Human Spine

Khan, Muhammad Saif Ullah and Krau{ss}, Stephan and Stricker, Didier

Introducing SpineTrack, a comprehensive dataset for 2D spine pose estimation in unconstrained settings, featuring detailed spinal keypoints and an active learning pipeline for anatomically consistent annotations at scale.

Workshop paper Open