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Abstract: We investigate a new task in human motion prediction, which aims to forecast future body poses from historically observed sequences while accounting for arbitrary latency. This differs from ...

Abstract: Radar sensors and micro-Doppler signatures have been widely used to recognize human motions. Apart from the motion classification task, human motion detection has attracted much attention as ...