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OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields
Zhe Cao, Gines Hidalgo, Tomas Simon, Shih-En Wei, Yaser Sheikh
OpenPose: Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, hands, and foot estimation
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Tasks
Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28
| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Person Pose Estimation | CrowdPose | OpenPose | AP Easy | 62.7 | #28 of 28 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Multi-Person Pose Estimation | CrowdPose | OpenPose | AP Hard | 32.3 | #28 of 28 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Multi-Person Pose Estimation | CrowdPose | OpenPose | AP Medium | 58.7 | #28 of 28 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Pose Estimation | COCO test-dev | OpenPose | AP | 64.2 | #40 of 47 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Pose Estimation | COCO test-dev | OpenPose | AP50 | 86.2 | #40 of 47 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Pose Estimation | COCO test-dev | OpenPose | AP75 | 70.1 | #40 of 47 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Pose Estimation | COCO test-dev | OpenPose | APL | 68.8 | #40 of 47 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Pose Estimation | COCO test-dev | OpenPose | APM | 61 | #40 of 47 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Pose Estimation | MPII Single Person | OpenPose | PCKh@0.1 | 22.5 | #4 of 5 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Pose Estimation | MPII Single Person | OpenPose | PCKh@0.5 | 88.8 | #4 of 5 | Archive leaderboard | report |
Ranks are positions in the archive's leaderboards as they stood at the 2025-07-28 snapshot. Results published since then are not among these rows, so a rank here is not a current standing.
Methods
Introduced by this paper: OpenPose
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