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Real-time 2D Multi-Person Pose Estimation on CPU: Lightweight OpenPose

29 Nov 2018arXiv:1811.12004archive 2025-07-28

Daniil Osokin

In this work we adapt multi-person pose estimation architecture to use it on edge devices. We follow the bottom-up approach from OpenPose, the winner of COCO 2016 Keypoints Challenge, because of its decent quality and robustness to number of people inside the frame. With proposed network design and optimized post-processing code the full solution runs at 28 frames per second (fps) on IntelxAE NUC 6i7KYB mini PC and 26 fps on Coreᵀᴹ i7-6850K CPU. The network model has 4.1M parameters and 9 billions floating-point operations (GFLOPs) complexity, which is just ~15% of the baseline 2-stage OpenPose with almost the same quality. The code and model are available as a part of IntelxAE OpenVINOᵀᴹ Toolkit.

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2xic/openpose-pigs mentioned on GitHubpytorch report
Rocketbase-AI/rockets-lightpose mentioned on GitHubpytorch report
hsk9767/open_pose mentioned on GitHubpytorch report
murdockhou/lightweight_openpose mentioned on GitHubtf report
omkarbhope/Pose-Estimation mentioned on GitHubpytorch report
osmr/imgclsmob mentioned on GitHubmxnetMIT report

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