A method for predicting three-dimensional body poses from image sequences of an object, the method performed on a processor of a computer having memory, the method including the steps of accessing the image sequences from the memory, finding bounding boxes around the object in consecutive frames of the image sequence, compensating motion of the object to form spatio-temporal volumes, and learning a mapping from the spatio-temporal volumes to a three-dimensional body pose in a central frame based on a mapping function.