Awesome Human Pose Estimation
A collection of awesome resources in Human Pose estimation.
This page lists names, links and short descriptions. The original list on GitHub is the source and belongs to its authors.
Basics
Papers >2D Pose estimation
Learning Human Pose Estimation Features with Convolutional Networks
Jain, A., Tompson, J., Andriluka, M., Taylor, G.W., & Bregler, C. (ICLR 2013)
DeepPose: Human Pose Estimation via Deep Neural Networks
Toshev, A., & Szegedy, C. (CVPR 2014)
Joint Training of a Convolutional Network and a Graphical Model for Human Pose Estimation
[CODE] - Tompson, J., Jain, A., LeCun, Y., & Bregler, C. (NIPS 2014)
MoDeep: A Deep Learning Framework Using Motion Features for Human Pose Estimation
Jain, A., Tompson, J., LeCun, Y., & Bregler, C. (ACCV 2014)
Efficient Object Localization Using Convolutional Networks
Tompson, J., Goroshin, R., Jain, A., LeCun, Y., & Bregler, C (CVPR 2015)
Flowing ConvNets for Human Pose Estimation in Videos
[CODE] - Pfister, T., Charles, J., & Zisserman, A. (ICCV 2015)
Convolutional Pose Machines
[CODE] - Wei, S., Ramakrishna, V., Kanade, T., & Sheikh, Y. (CVPR 2016)
Human Pose Estimation with Iterative Error Feedback
[CODE] Carreira, J., Agrawal, P., Fragkiadaki, K., & Malik, J. (CVPR 2016)
DeepCut: Joint Subset Partition and Labeling for Multi Person Pose Estimation
[CODE] - Pishchulin, L., Insafutdinov, E., Tang, S., Andres, B., Andriluka, M., Gehler, P.V., & Schiele, B. (CVPR 2016)
DeeperCut: A Deeper, Stronger, and Faster Multi-Person Pose Estimation Model
[CODE1][CODE2] - Insafutdinov, E., Pishchulin, L., Andres, B., Andriluka, M., & Schiele, B. (ECCV 2016)
Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation
[CODE] - Newell, A., Yang, K., & Deng, J. (ECCV 2016)
Multi-context Attention for Human Pose Estimation
[CODE] - Chu, X., Yang, W., Ouyang, W., Ma, C., Yuille, A.L., & Wang, X. (CVPR 2017)
Towards Accurate Multi-person Pose Estimation in the Wild
[CODE] - Papandreou, G., Zhu, T., Kanazawa, N., Toshev, A., Tompson, J., Bregler, C., & Murphy, K.P. (CVPR 2017)
Realtime Multi-person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields
[CODE] - Cao, Z., Simon, T., Wei, S., & Sheikh, Y. (CVPR 2017)
Learning Feature Pyramids for Human Pose Estimation
[CODE] - Yang, W., Li, S., Ouyang, W., Li, H., & Wang, X. (ICCV 2017)
Human Pose Estimation Using Global and Local Normalization
Sun, K., Lan, C., Xing, J., Zeng, W., Liu, D., & Wang, J. (ICCV 2017)
Adversarial PoseNet: A Structure-Aware Convolutional Network for Human Pose Estimation
Chen, Y., Shen, C., Wei, X., Liu, L., & Yang, J. (ICCV 2017)
RMPE: Regional Multi-person Pose Estimation
[CODE1][CODE2] - Fang, H., Xie, S., & Lu, C. (ICCV 2017)
Self Adversarial Training for Human Pose Estimation
[CODE1][CODE2] - Chou, C., Chien, J., & Chen, H. (ArXiv 2017)
Recurrent Human Pose Estimation
[CODE] - Belagiannis, V., & Zisserman, A. (FG 2017)
Knowledge-Guided Deep Fractal Neural Networks for Human Pose Estimation
[CODE] Ning, G., Zhang, Z., & He, Z. (IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2018)
Human Pose Estimation with Parsing Induced Learner
Xuecheng Nie, Jiashi Feng, Yiming Zuo, Shuicheng Yan (CVPR 2018)
LSTM Pose Machines
[CODE] - Yue Luo, Jimmy Ren, Zhouxia Wang, Wenxiu Sun, Jinshan Pan, Jianbo Liu, Jiahao Pang, Liang Lin (CVPR 2018)
Simple Baselines for Human Pose Estimation and Tracking
[CODE] - Bin, Xiao, Haiping Wu, Yichen Wei (ECCV 2018)
Multi-Scale Structure-Aware Network for Human Pose Estimation
Lipeng Ke, Ming-Ching Chang, Honggang Qi, Siwei Lyu (ECCV 2018)
Deeply Learned Compositional Models for Human Pose Estimation
Wei Tang, Pei Yu, Ying Wu (ECCV 2018)
Real-time 2D Multi-Person Pose Estimation on CPU: Lightweight OpenPose
[CODE] Osokin, D. (ArXiv 2018)
Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimation
[CODE] Ke Sun, Bin Xiao, Dong Liu, Jingdong Wang (CVPR 2019)
Papers >3D Pose estimation
3D Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Images with Deep Convolutional Neural Network
Li, S., & Chan, A.B. (ACCV 2014)
Structured Prediction of 3D Human Pose with Deep Neural Networks
Tekin, B., Katircioglu, I., Salzmann, M., Lepetit, V., & Fua, P. (BMVC 2016)
VNect: Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Camera
[CODE] - Mehta, Dushyant et al. (SIGGRAPH 2017)
Recurrent 3D Pose Sequence Machines
Lin, M., Lin, L., Liang, X., Wang, K., & Cheng, H. (CVPR 2017)
Lifting from the Deep: Convolutional 3D Pose Estimation from a Single Image
Tomè, D., Russell, C., & Agapito, L. (CVPR 2017)
Coarse-to-Fine Volumetric Prediction for Single-Image 3D Human Pose
[CODE] - Pavlakos, G., Zhou, X., Derpanis, K.G., & Daniilidis, K. (CVPR 2017)
Towards 3D Human Pose Estimation in the Wild: a Weakly-supervised Approach
[CODE] - Zhou, X., Huang, Q., Sun, X., Xue, X., & Wei, Y. (ICCV 2017)
A Simple Yet Effective Baseline for 3d Human Pose Estimation
Martinez, J., Hossain, R., Romero, J., & Little, J.J. (ICCV 2017)
Compositional Human Pose Regression
Sun, X., Shang, J., Liang, S., & Wei, Y. (ICCV 2017)
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation In The Wild Using Improved CNN Supervision
Mehta, D., Rhodin, H., Casas, D., Fua, P., Sotnychenko, O., Xu, W., & Theobalt, C. (3DV 2017)
3D Human Pose Estimation in the Wild by Adversarial Learning
Yang, W., Ouyang, W., Wang, X., Ren, J.S., Li, H., & Wang, X. (2018)
DRPose3D: Depth Ranking in 3D Human Pose Estimation
Wang, M., Chen, X., Liu, W., Qian, C., Lin, L., & Ma, L. (IJCAI 2018)
End-to-end Recovery of Human Shape and Pose
[CODE] - Kanazawa, A., Black, M.J., Jacobs, D.W., & Malik, J. (CVPR 2018)
Learning to Estimate 3D Human Pose and Shape from a Single Color Image
Pavlakos, G., Zhu, L., Zhou, X., & Daniilidis, K. (CVPR 2018)
Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wild
[CODE] - Guler, R.A., Neverova, N., & Kokkinos, I. (ArXiv 2018)
Neural Body Fitting: Unifying Deep Learning and Model-Based Human Pose and Shape Estimation
[CODE] - Omran, Mohamed and Lassner, Christoph and Pons-Moll, Gerard and Gehler, Peter V. and Schiele, Bernt (3DV 2018)
Learning 3D Human Pose from Structure and Motion
Dabral, R., Mundhada, A., Kusupati, U., Afaque, S., Sharma, A., & Jain, A. (ECCV 2018)
Integral Human Pose Regression
[CODE] - Sun, X., Xiao, B., Liang, S., & Wei, Y. (ECCV 2018)
Dense Pose Transfer
Neverova, N., Guler, R.A., & Kokkinos, I. (ECCV 2018)
Unsupervised Geometry-Aware Representation for 3D Human Pose Estimation
[CODE] - Rhodin, H., Salzmann, M., & Fua, P. (ECCV 2018)
BodyNet: Volumetric Inference of 3D Human Body Shapes
[CODE] - Varol, G., Ceylan, D., Russell, B., Yang, J., Yumer, E., Laptev, I., & Schmid, C. (ECCV 2018)
3D human pose estimation in video with temporal convolutions and semi-supervised training
[CODE] - Pavllo, D., Feichtenhofer, C., Grangier, D., & Auli, M (ArXiv 2018)
Single-Shot Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation From Monocular RGB
[CODE1][CODE2] - Mehta, D., Sotnychenko, O., Mueller, F., Xu, W., Sridhar, S., Pons-Moll, G., Theobalt, C. (3DV 2018)
Papers >Person generation
Pose Guided Person Image Generation
[CODE] - Ma, L., Jia, X., Sun, Q., Schiele, B., Tuytelaars, T., & Gool, L.V. (NIPS 2017)
A Generative Model of People in Clothing
Lassner, C., Pons-Moll, G., & Gehler, P.V. (ICCV 2017)
Deformable GANs for Pose-based Human Image Generation
[CODE] - Siarohin, A., Sangineto, E., Lathuilière, S., & Sebe, N. (CVPR 2018)
Dense Pose Transfer
Neverova, N., Guler, R.A., & Kokkinos, I. (ECCV 2018)
Papers >Real-time pose estimation
Realtime Multi-person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields
[CODE] - Cao, Z., Simon, T., Wei, S., & Sheikh, Y. (CVPR 2017)
VNect: Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Camera
[CODE] - Mehta, Dushyant et al. (SIGGRAPH 2017)
RMPE: Regional Multi-person Pose Estimation
[CODE1][CODE2] - Fang, H., Xie, S., & Lu, C. (ICCV 2017)
Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wild
[CODE] - Guler, R.A., Neverova, N., & Kokkinos, I. (ArXiv 2018)
Real-time 2D Multi-Person Pose Estimation on CPU: Lightweight OpenPose
[CODE] Osokin, D. (ArXiv 2018)
Datasets >2D
Datasets >3D
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation In The Wild Using Improved CNN Supervision
Mehta, D., Rhodin, H., Casas, D., Fua, P., Sotnychenko, O., Xu, W., & Theobalt, C. (3DV 2017)
Workshops
Blog posts
Popular implementations >PyTorch
pytorch-pose-hg-3d
PyTorch implementation for 3D human pose estimation
pytorch_Realtime_Multi-Person_Pose_Estimation
This is a pytorch version of Realtime_Multi-Person_Pose_Estimation, origin code is here .
AlphaPose
PyTorch based realtime and accurate pose estimation and tracking tool from SJTU.
pytorch-pose
A PyTorch toolkit for 2D Human Pose Estimation.
deep-high-resolution-net.pytorch
A PyTorch implementation of CVPR2019 paper "Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimation"
Popular implementations >TensorFlow
tf-pose-estimation
Deep Pose Estimation implemented using Tensorflow with Custom Architectures for fast inference.
Popular implementations >Torch
Popular implementations >Others
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