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Poster

ETCH: Generalizing Body Fitting to Clothed Humans via Equivariant Tightness

Boqian Li · Zeyu Cai · Michael Black · Haiwen Feng · Yuliang Xiu


Abstract:

Fitting a body to a 3D clothed human point cloud is a common yet challenging task. Traditional optimization-based approaches use multi-stage pipelines that are sensitive to pose initialization, while recent learning-based methods often struggle with generalization across diverse poses and garment types. We propose Equivariant Tightness Fitting for Clothed Humans, or ETCH, a novel pipeline that estimates cloth-to-body surface mapping through locally approximate SE(3) equivariance, encoding tightness as displacement vectors from the cloth surface to the underlying body. Following this mapping, pose-invariant body features regress sparse body markers, simplifying clothed human fitting into an inner-body marker fitting task. Extensive experiments on CAPE and 4D-Dress show that ETCH significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods -- both tightness-agnostic and tightness-aware -- in body fitting accuracy on loose clothing (16.7% ~ 69.5%) and shape accuracy (average 49.9%). It also reduces directional errors by (67.2% ~ 89.8%) in few-shot settings (<1% data). Qualitative results demonstrate strong performance regardless of body shape, loose clothing, or challenging poses. We will release the code and models for research purposes.

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