| SIMSPINE Academic Research License |
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| Version 1.0 |
| Copyright © 2026 Augmented Vision Group, |
| German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany. |
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| The SIMSPINE dataset is owned and distributed by the Augmented Vision Group at DFKI Kaiserslautern. |
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| 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE DATASET |
| SIMSPINE is a research dataset consisting of derived 3D spine keypoint annotations aligned with the Human3.6M dataset. |
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| The dataset contains: |
| - 15 additional spine-related keypoints generated from Human3.6M sequences |
| - simulated biomechanical outputs generated using OpenSim |
| - per-subject OpenSim models (.osim) |
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| The dataset does not contain any original Human3.6M data, including: |
| - videos |
| - images |
| - motion capture recordings |
| - the original 17 Human3.6M keypoints |
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| The dataset only provides additional annotations that are frame-aligned with Human3.6M sequences. |
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| Use of SIMSPINE therefore requires independent access to the Human3.6M dataset. |
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| 2. RELATIONSHIP TO HUMAN3.6M DATASET |
| SIMSPINE is a derived dataset created using Human3.6M data. |
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| Human3.6M is owned by its respective authors and distributed under its own license agreement. |
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| Users of SIMSPINE must: |
| - Independently obtain Human3.6M from its official source |
| - Accept the Human3.6M license agreement |
| - Use Human3.6M in accordance with its licensing terms |
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| The Human3.6M license can be obtained from: https://vision.imar.ro/human3.6m/ |
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| Nothing in this license grants permission to access, distribute, or use Human3.6M data beyond what is permitted by the Human3.6M license. |
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| Users remain fully responsible for complying with the Human3.6M license agreement. |
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| 3. GRANT OF LICENSE (ACADEMIC USE ONLY) |
| SIMSPINE is provided free of charge for academic research use only. |
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| Provided the request originates from an academic or research institution, the Augmented Vision Group at DFKI grants a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the SIMSPINE dataset for: |
| - academic research |
| - scientific publications |
| - reproducible experiments |
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| The dataset may not be used for: |
| - commercial purposes |
| - product development |
| - industrial applications |
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| without prior written permission from SIMSPINE and Human3.6M dataset owners. |
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| 4. RESTRICTIONS |
| The user agrees to the following restrictions: |
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| The dataset may not be: |
| - sold |
| - rented |
| - leased |
| - sublicensed |
| - redistributed as part of another dataset |
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| The dataset may only be used by the individual or institution that obtained it. |
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| Users may distribute trained models, evaluation results, or derived research outputs, provided that: |
| - the SIMSPINE dataset itself is not redistributed |
| - proper citations are included. |
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| 5. NO WARRANTIES |
| The dataset is provided “AS IS” without any warranty of any kind. |
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| The dataset authors make no guarantees regarding: |
| - accuracy |
| - completeness |
| - correctness |
| - fitness for any particular purpose. |
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| 6. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY |
| In no event shall the dataset authors or their institutions be liable for any damages arising from the use of this dataset. |
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| 7. RESPONSIBLE USE |
| It is the user's responsibility to ensure that their use of SIMSPINE complies with: |
| - this license agreement |
| - the Human3.6M license |
| - all applicable laws and regulations. |
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| 8. REQUIRED CITATIONS |
| Any publications using the SIMSPINE dataset must cite both the SIMSPINE paper and the original Human3.6M publications. |
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| SIMSPINE |
| @inproceedings{khan2026simspine, |
| author = {Khan, Muhammad Saif Ullah and Stricker, Didier}, |
| title = {SIMSPINE: A Biomechanics-Aware Simulation Framework for 3D Spine Motion Annotation and Benchmarking}, |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, |
| month = {June}, |
| year = {2026}, |
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| Human3.6M |
| @article{h36m_pami, |
| author = {Ionescu, Catalin and Papava, Dragos and Olaru, Vlad and Sminchisescu, Cristian}, |
| title = {Human3.6M: Large Scale Datasets and Predictive Methods for 3D Human Sensing in Natural Environments}, |
| journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence}, |
| publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, |
| year = {2014} |
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| @inproceedings{IonescuSminchisescu11, |
| author = {Catalin Ionescu, Fuxin Li, Cristian Sminchisescu}, |
| title = {Latent Structured Models for Human Pose Estimation}, |
| booktitle = {International Conference on Computer Vision}, |
| year = {2011} |
| } |
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| Citing the dataset URL alone does not satisfy the citation requirement. |
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| 9. ACCEPTANCE OF THIS LICENSE |
| Any use of the SIMSPINE dataset constitutes acceptance of this license agreement. |
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| 10. CONTACT |
| For questions, permissions, or commercial licensing inquiries, please contact: |
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| Augmented Vision Group |
| German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) |
| Kaiserslautern, Germany |
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| Email: muhammad_saif_ullah.khan@dfki.de |
