Morning Edition · Tuesday, June 30, 2026
VolHuMe Dataset Targets the Data Bottleneck in 4D Human Capture
A large dataset of volumetric human meshes ships with multi-view depth, textured meshes, point clouds, rigged assets, and body-model fits.
VolHuMe is a high-resolution, large-scale dataset of volumetric human meshes with complete four-dimensional ground truth, including multi-view RGB-D, textured meshes, dense point clouds, normal maps, rigged assets, garment segmentation, and…
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