A discussion for real-time (multi-person) pose estimation using TensorLayer and TensorFlow

Paper List

• 🚀Pose Proposal Networks, ECCV 2018
• DensePose
• 🚀 Convolutional Pose Machines
• Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation
• 🚀Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields
• VNect: Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Camera
• For Model Acceleration, see 🚀🚀 Model Compression and Model Acceleration in TensorLayer #416

Existing code/resource

• 🚀the author of "Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields" provides some links in his github: ZheC/Realtime_Multi-Person_Pose_Estimation, [video], [training log]
• pyopenpose PyOpenPose
• 🚀COCO API for preparing the data - cocoapi , pip3 install pycocotools, see keras_Realtime_Multi-Person_Pose_Estimation
• tf-pose-estimation using MobileNet , video , blog🚀 , faster and other implementations
• data augmentation in cpp , see rmpe_dataset_server
• evaluate MPII result , see mpii-evluation
• openpose output format , see openpose
• Receptive Fields Calculator

Blog

• https://arvrjourney.com/human-pose-estimation-using-openpose-with-tensorflow-part-1-7dd4ca5c8027
• https://arvrjourney.com/human-pose-estimation-using-openpose-with-tensorflow-part-2-e78ab9104fc8

About Data Augmentation

• https://github.com/ZheC/Realtime_Multi-Person_Pose_Estimation/blob/master/training/setLayers.py#L457
• https://github.com/ZheC/Realtime_Multi-Person_Pose_Estimation/blob/master/training/setLayers.py#L343

Others

• MPII benchmarks http://human-pose.mpi-inf.mpg.de/#related_benchmarks
• TensorFlow lite
• 知乎 https://www.zhihu.com/question/59750782/answer/207238452
• CSDN CPM http://blog.csdn.net/shenxiaolu1984/article/details/51094959
• Use TF dataset API to deal with large dataset https://blog.csdn.net/dQCFKyQDXYm3F8rB0/article/details/79342369