Papers › SyDog: A Synthetic Dog Dataset for Improved 2D Pose Estimation
SyDog: A Synthetic Dog Dataset for Improved 2D Pose Estimation
Moira Shooter, Charles Malleson, Adrian Hilton
Estimating the pose of animals can facilitate the understanding of animal motion which is fundamental in disciplines such as biomechanics, neuroscience, ethology, robotics and the entertainment industry. Human pose estimation models have achieved high performance due to the huge amount of training data available. Achieving the same results for animal pose estimation is challenging due to the lack of animal pose datasets. To address this problem we introduce SyDog: a synthetic dataset of dogs containing ground truth pose and bounding box coordinates which was generated using the game engine, Unity. We demonstrate that pose estimation models trained on SyDog achieve better performance than models trained purely on real data and significantly reduce the need for the labour intensive labelling of images. We release the SyDog dataset as a training and evaluation benchmark for research in animal motion.
In Syntology Open this paper in Syntology's Atlas, the map of the papers in Syntology's graph and their citations.
Code
No code repository is listed for this paper in the archive or in Syntology's graph.
Code Syntology ran Syntology
Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.
Tasks
Datasets
Introduced by this paper, per the archive.
Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28
| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Pose Estimation | StanfordExtra | 8 Stacked Hourglass Network | PCK@0.1 | 78.65 | #1 of 3 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Animal Pose Estimation | StanfordExtra | 2 Stacked Hourglass Network | PCK@0.1 | 77.19 | #2 of 3 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Animal Pose Estimation | StanfordExtra | Mask R-CNN | PCK@0.1 | 50.77 | #3 of 3 | 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.
Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections