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Simple Baselines for Human Pose Estimation and Tracking

17 Apr 2018ECCV 2018 9arXiv:1804.06208archive 2025-07-28

Bin Xiao, Haiping Wu, Yichen Wei

There has been significant progress on pose estimation and increasing interests on pose tracking in recent years. At the same time, the overall algorithm and system complexity increases as well, making the algorithm analysis and comparison more difficult. This work provides simple and effective baseline methods. They are helpful for inspiring and evaluating new ideas for the field. State-of-the-art results are achieved on challenging benchmarks. The code will be available at https://github.com/leoxiaobin/pose.pytorch.

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leoxiaobin/pose.pytorch officialmentioned in paperpytorchMIT report
CuberrChen/HumanPoseBL-Paddle mentioned on GitHubpaddle report
Microsoft/human-pose-estimation.pytorch mentioned on GitHubpytorchMIT report
Mind23-2/MindCode-77 mentioned on GitHubmindspore report
bearpaw/pytorch-pose mentioned on GitHubpytorchGPL-3.0 report
dog-qiuqiu/MobileNetV2-SimplePose mentioned on GitHubmxnet report
dog-qiuqiu/Ultralight-SimplePose mentioned on GitHubmxnet report
leeyegy/SimDR mentioned on GitHubpytorch report
leeyegy/simcc mentioned on GitHubpytorch report
lyqcom/alphapose mentioned on GitHubmindsporeApache-2.0 report
mindspore-lab/mindone mentioned on GitHubmindsporenot reachable when probed 2026-09-17 — repositories for recent papers often appear after camera-ready report
mks0601/TF-SimpleHumanPose mentioned on GitHubtf report
osmr/imgclsmob mentioned on GitHubmxnetMIT report
samson6460/tf2_pose_estimation mentioned on GitHubtf report
simochen/flowtrack.pytorch mentioned on GitHubpytorch report
open-mmlab/mmpose pytorchApache-2.0 report

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Tasks

2D Human Pose EstimationKeypoint DetectionMulti-Person Pose EstimationPose EstimationPose Tracking

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
2D Human Pose Estimation JHMDB (2D poses only) SimplePose PCK 94.4 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation OCHuman ResNet-152 Test AP 33.3 #6 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation OCHuman ResNet-152 Validation AP 41.0 #6 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation OCHuman ResNet-50 Test AP 30.4 #9 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
2D Human Pose Estimation OCHuman ResNet-50 Validation AP 37.8 #9 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) ResNet-50 Validation AP 72.2 #22 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-challenge Simple Base+* AP 74.5 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-challenge Simple Base+* AP50 90.9 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-challenge Simple Base+* AP75 80.8 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-challenge Simple Base+* APL 87.5 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-challenge Simple Base+* AR 80.5 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-challenge Simple Base+* AR50 95.1 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-challenge Simple Base+* AR75 86.3 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-challenge Simple Base+* ARL 82.9 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-challenge Simple Base+* ARM 75.3 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base+* AP50 92.4 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base+* AP75 84.0 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base+* APL 82.7 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base+* APM 73.0 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base+* AR 81.5 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base+* AR50 95.8 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base+* AR75 88.2 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base+* ARL 87.2 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base+* ARM 77.4 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base AP50 91.9 #5 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base AP75 81.1 #5 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base APL 80.0 #5 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base APM 70.3 #5 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection COCO test-dev Simple Base AR 79.0 #5 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection OCHuman ResNet-152 Test AP 33.3 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection OCHuman ResNet-152 Validation AP 41.0 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection OCHuman ResNet-50 Test AP 29.5 #8 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Keypoint Detection OCHuman ResNet-50 Validation AP 32.1 #8 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Person Pose Estimation CrowdPose Simple baseline AP Easy 71.4 #22 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Person Pose Estimation CrowdPose Simple baseline AP Hard 51.2 #22 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Person Pose Estimation CrowdPose Simple baseline AP Medium 61.2 #22 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Person Pose Estimation CrowdPose Simple baseline mAP @0.5:0.95 60.8 #22 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Person Pose Estimation OCHuman SimplePose AP50 37.4 #7 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Person Pose Estimation OCHuman SimplePose AP75 26.8 #7 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Multi-Person Pose Estimation OCHuman SimplePose Validation AP 24.1 #7 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-152) AP 29.9 #8 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-152) AP50 73.8 #8 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-152) AP75 18.3 #8 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-152) AR 34.3 #8 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-152) AR50 76.9 #8 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-101) AP 29.4 #9 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-101) AP50 73.6 #9 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-101) AP75 17.4 #9 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-101) AR 33.7 #9 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-101) AR50 76.3 #9 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-50) AP 28.0 #10 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-50) AP50 71.6 #10 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-50) AP75 15.8 #10 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-50) AR 32.1 #10 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation AIC SimpleBaseline (ResNet-50) AR50 74.1 #10 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev Flow-based (ResNet-152) AP 73.7 #25 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev Flow-based (ResNet-152) AP50 91.9 #25 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev Flow-based (ResNet-152) AP75 81.1 #25 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev Flow-based (ResNet-152) APL 80 #25 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev Flow-based (ResNet-152) APM 70.3 #25 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO test-dev Flow-based (ResNet-152) AR 79 #25 of 47 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO val2017 SimpleBaseLine (256x192) AP 70.4 #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO val2017 SimpleBaseLine (256x192) AP50 - #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO val2017 SimpleBaseLine (256x192) AP75 - #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation COCO val2017 SimpleBaseLine (256x192) AR - #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation OCHuman ResNet-152 Test AP 33.3 #14 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation OCHuman ResNet-152 Validation AP 41.0 #14 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation OCHuman ResNet-50 Test AP 29.5 #17 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Estimation OCHuman ResNet-50 Validation AP 32.1 #17 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Tracking PoseTrack2017 MSRA (FlowTrack) MOTA 57.81 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Tracking PoseTrack2017 MSRA (FlowTrack) mAP 74.57 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Tracking PoseTrack2018 MSRA MOTA 61.37 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Pose Tracking PoseTrack2018 MSRA mAP 74.03 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report

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