Software & Data Downloads — RAPTR
Radar-based 3D Pose Estimation using Transformer for Radar-based indoor 3D human pose estimation.
Radar-based indoor 3D human pose estimation typically relied on fine-grained 3D keypoint labels, which are costly to obtain especially in complex indoor settings involving clutter, occlusions, or multiple people. In this paper, we propose {RAPTR} (RAdar Pose esTimation using tRansformer) using only 3D BBox and 2D keypoint labels which are considerably easier and more scalable to collect. Our RAPTR is characterized by a two-stage pose decoder architecture with a new pseudo-3D deformable attention to enhance (pose/joint) queries with multi-view radar features: a pose decoder estimates initial 3D poses with a 3D template loss designed to utilize the 3D BBox labels and mitigate depth ambiguities; and the refined joint decoder finalizes pose estimates with 2D keypoint labels and a 3D gravity loss. Evaluated on two indoor radar datasets, RAPTR outperforms existing methods, reducing joint position error by 34.2% on HIBER and 76.9% on MMVR.
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- , "RAPTR: Radar-based 3D Pose Estimation using Transformer", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2025.
BibTeX TR2026-006 PDF Software- @inproceedings{Kato2025dec,
- author = {Kato, Sorachi and Yataka, Ryoma and Wang, Pu and Miraldo, Pedro and Fujihashi, Takuya and Boufounos, Petros T.},
- title = {{RAPTR: Radar-based 3D Pose Estimation using Transformer}},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-006}
- }
- , "RAPTR: Radar-based 3D Pose Estimation using Transformer", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2025.
Software & Data Downloads
Access software at https://github.com/merlresearch/radar-pose-transformer.


