2D Human Pose Estimation

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

25 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

6 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 68 papers with code (118 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields
  24 Nov 2016 61 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 23 samples · 19 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  We present an approach to efficiently detect the 2D pose of multiple people in an image.
• Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimation
  25 Feb 2019 39 repositories listed Syntology ran 8 of 25 samples · 17 unverified
  We start from a high-resolution subnetwork as the first stage, gradually add high-to-low resolution subnetworks one by one to form more stages, and connect the mutli-resolution subnetworks in parallel.
• Simple Baselines for Human Pose Estimation and Tracking
  17 Apr 2018 27 repositories listed
  There has been significant progress on pose estimation and increasing interests on pose tracking in recent years.
• HigherHRNet: Scale-Aware Representation Learning for Bottom-Up Human Pose Estimation
  27 Aug 2019 19 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 27 samples · 22 unverified
  HigherHRNet even surpasses all top-down methods on CrowdPose test (67.
• RMPE: Regional Multi-person Pose Estimation
  1 Dec 2016 14 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose a novel regional multi-person pose estimation (RMPE) framework to facilitate pose estimation in the presence of inaccurate human bounding boxes.
• Simple Pose: Rethinking and Improving a Bottom-up Approach for Multi-Person Pose Estimation
  24 Nov 2019 8 repositories listed
  We rethink a well-know bottom-up approach for multi-person pose estimation and propose an improved one.
• BlazePose: On-device Real-time Body Pose tracking
  17 Jun 2020 7 repositories listed
  We present BlazePose, a lightweight convolutional neural network architecture for human pose estimation that is tailored for real-time inference on mobile devices.
• Pose2Seg: Detection Free Human Instance Segmentation
  28 Mar 2018 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 16 samples · 16 unverified
  We demonstrate that our pose-based framework can achieve better accuracy than the state-of-art detection-based approach on the human instance segmentation problem, and can moreover better handle occlusion.
• ViTPose: Simple Vision Transformer Baselines for Human Pose Estimation
  26 Apr 2022 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 18 of 31 samples · 13 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we show the surprisingly good capabilities of plain vision transformers for pose estimation from various aspects, namely simplicity in model structure, scalability in model size, flexibility in training…
• Near-Optimal Representation Learning for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
  2 Oct 2018 6 repositories listed
  We study the problem of representation learning in goal-conditioned hierarchical reinforcement learning.
• Associative Embedding: End-to-End Learning for Joint Detection and Grouping
  16 Nov 2016 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 8 samples · 8 unverified
  We introduce associative embedding, a novel method for supervising convolutional neural networks for the task of detection and grouping.
• Explicit Box Detection Unifies End-to-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation
  3 Feb 2023 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  This paper presents a novel end-to-end framework with Explicit box Detection for multi-person Pose estimation, called ED-Pose, where it unifies the contextual learning between human-level (global) and keypoint-level…
• Sapiens: Foundation for Human Vision Models
  22 Aug 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 11 samples · 11 unverified
  We present Sapiens, a family of models for four fundamental human-centric vision tasks -- 2D pose estimation, body-part segmentation, depth estimation, and surface normal prediction.
• X-Pose: Detecting Any Keypoints
  12 Oct 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 11 of 13 samples · 2 unverified · 13 pointer-only (licence)
  This work aims to address an advanced keypoint detection problem: how to accurately detect any keypoints in complex real-world scenarios, which involves massive, messy, and open-ended objects as well as their associated…
• Improving 2D Human Pose Estimation in Rare Camera Views with Synthetic Data
  13 Jul 2023 2 repositories listed
  Methods and datasets for human pose estimation focus predominantly on side- and front-view scenarios.
• ViTPose++: Vision Transformer for Generic Body Pose Estimation
  7 Dec 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 3 samples · 2 unverified
  In this paper, we show the surprisingly good properties of plain vision transformers for body pose estimation from various aspects, namely simplicity in model structure, scalability in model size, flexibility in…
• PPT: token-Pruned Pose Transformer for monocular and multi-view human pose estimation
  16 Sep 2022 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose the token-Pruned Pose Transformer (PPT) for 2D human pose estimation, which can locate a rough human mask and performs self-attention only within selected tokens.
• XMem: Long-Term Video Object Segmentation with an Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Model
  14 Jul 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 3 samples · 2 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  We present XMem, a video object segmentation architecture for long videos with unified feature memory stores inspired by the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model.
• SmoothNet: A Plug-and-Play Network for Refining Human Poses in Videos
  27 Dec 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  With a simple yet effective motion-aware fully-connected network, SmoothNet improves the temporal smoothness of existing pose estimators significantly and enhances the estimation accuracy of those challenging frames as…
• Event Neural Networks
  2 Dec 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 7 samples · 7 unverified
  Video data is often repetitive; for example, the contents of adjacent frames are usually strongly correlated.
• Estimating Parkinsonism Severity in Natural Gait Videos of Older Adults with Dementia
  7 May 2021 2 repositories listed
  This work leverages novel spatial-temporal graph convolutional network (ST-GCN) architectures and training procedures to predict clinical scores of parkinsonism in gait from video of individuals with dementia.
• Scalable Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering
  22 Oct 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  The applicability of agglomerative clustering, for inferring both hierarchical and flat clustering, is limited by its scalability.
• Whole-Body Human Pose Estimation in the Wild
  23 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed
  This paper investigates the task of 2D human whole-body pose estimation, which aims to localize dense landmarks on the entire human body including face, hands, body, and feet.
• EfficientHRNet: Efficient Scaling for Lightweight High-Resolution Multi-Person Pose Estimation
  16 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed
  The largest model is able to come within 4.
• PifPaf: Composite Fields for Human Pose Estimation
  15 Mar 2019 2 repositories listed
  We propose a new bottom-up method for multi-person 2D human pose estimation that is particularly well suited for urban mobility such as self-driving cars and delivery robots.
• Learning from Synthetic Humans
  5 Jan 2017 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  In this work we present SURREAL (Synthetic hUmans foR REAL tasks): a new large-scale dataset with synthetically-generated but realistic images of people rendered from 3D sequences of human motion capture data.
• Preconditioned Stochastic Gradient Descent
  14 Dec 2015 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 6 samples · 1 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  When stochastic gradient is used, it can naturally damp the gradient noise to stabilize SGD.
• 2D Human Pose Estimation: New Benchmark and State of the Art Analysis
  1 Jun 2014 2 repositories listed
  Human pose estimation has made significant progress during the last years.
• Poseidon: A ViT-based Architecture for Multi-Frame Pose Estimation with Adaptive Frame Weighting and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion
  14 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Human pose estimation, a vital task in computer vision, involves detecting and localising human joints in images and videos.
• ProbPose: A Probabilistic Approach to 2D Human Pose Estimation
  3 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Current Human Pose Estimation methods have achieved significant improvements.

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