README.md

Multi-Person-Pose-Estimation

Code repo for winning 2016 MSCOCO Keypoints Challenge, ECCV Best Demo Award.

Watch our [video result] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW6nZXeWlGM&t=77s) on funny Youtube videos.

Presentation slides at ILSVRC and COCO workshop 2016.

Zhe Cao, Tomas Simon, Shih-En Wei, Yaser Sheikh, "Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields".

This project is licensed under the terms of the GPL v3 license. By using the software, you are agreeing to the terms of the license agreement.

Contact: Zhe Cao (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/zhecao) Email: [email protected]

Set Up

• Install Caffe.
• Compile matcaffe, pycaffe.

Testing

C++ (realtime version)

• Use our modified caffe: caffe_demo. Follow the instruction on that repo.
• Three input options: images, video, webcam

Matlab (slower)

• Compatible with general caffe.
• Run cd testing; get_model.sh to retreive our latest MSCOCO model from our web server.
• Change the caffepath in the config.m and run demo.m for an example usage.

Python

• iPython Notebook documentation will be released soon!

Training

• Network Architecture

• Code will be released soon!

Related repository

CVPR'16, Convolutional Pose Machines

Citation

Please cite the paper in your publications if it helps your research:

@article{cao2016realtime,
  title={Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields},
  author={Zhe Cao and Tomas Simon and Shih-En Wei and Yaser Sheikh},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08050},
  year={2016}
  }
  
@inproceedings{wei2016cpm,
  author = {Shih-En Wei and Varun Ramakrishna and Takeo Kanade and Yaser Sheikh},
  booktitle = {CVPR},
  title = {Convolutional pose machines},
  year = {2016}
  }