2D Pose Estimation

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

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

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

2 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 46 papers with code (90 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.
• OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields
  18 Dec 2018 51 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 16 samples · 13 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  OpenPose: Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, hands, and foot estimation
• 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.
• Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
  1 Dec 2023 35 repositories listed Syntology ran 18 of 62 samples · 44 unverified · 28 pointer-only (licence)
  Foundation models, now powering most of the exciting applications in deep learning, are almost universally based on the Transformer architecture and its core attention module.
• Polarized Self-Attention: Towards High-quality Pixel-wise Regression
  2 Jul 2021 6 repositories listed
  Pixel-wise regression is probably the most common problem in fine-grained computer vision tasks, such as estimating keypoint heatmaps and segmentation masks.
• Towards 3D Human Pose Estimation in the Wild: a Weakly-supervised Approach
  8 Apr 2017 6 repositories listed
  We propose a weakly-supervised transfer learning method that uses mixed 2D and 3D labels in a unified deep neutral network that presents two-stage cascaded structure.
• SuperAnimal pretrained pose estimation models for behavioral analysis
  14 Mar 2022 3 repositories listed
  We illustrate the utility of our models in behavioral classification in mice and gait analysis in horses.
• 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.
• A Graph-Based Approach for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
  29 Nov 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  Traditional 2D pose estimation models are limited by their category-specific design, making them suitable only for predefined object categories.
• 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…
• Uplift and Upsample: Efficient 3D Human Pose Estimation with Uplifting Transformers
  12 Oct 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 17 samples · 17 unverified
  The state-of-the-art for monocular 3D human pose estimation in videos is dominated by the paradigm of 2D-to-3D pose uplifting.
• Rotation Equivariant Siamese Networks for Tracking
  24 Dec 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 3 samples · 2 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  We further show that this change in orientation can be used to impose an additional motion constraint in Siamese tracking through imposing restriction on the change in orientation between two consecutive frames.
• Simultaneously-Collected Multimodal Lying Pose Dataset: Towards In-Bed Human Pose Monitoring under Adverse Vision Conditions
  20 Aug 2020 2 repositories listed
  Computer vision (CV) has achieved great success in interpreting semantic meanings from images, yet CV algorithms can be brittle for tasks with adverse vision conditions and the ones suffering from data/label pair…
• Learning to Train with Synthetic Humans
  2 Aug 2019 2 repositories listed
  Here we explore two variations of synthetic data for this challenging problem; a dataset with purely synthetic humans and a real dataset augmented with synthetic humans.
• DETRPose: Real-time end-to-end transformer model for multi-person pose estimation
  16 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  The paper presents a family of transformer-based models capable of performing multi-person 2D pose estimation in real-time.
• Edge Weight Prediction For Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
  25 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation (CAPE) localizes keypoints across diverse object categories with a single model, using one or a few annotated support images.
• MPL: Lifting 3D Human Pose from Multi-view 2D Poses
  20 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  Estimating 3D human poses from 2D images is challenging due to occlusions and projective acquisition.
• RTMW: Real-Time Multi-Person 2D and 3D Whole-body Pose Estimation
  11 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  In this work, we present RTMW (Real-Time Multi-person Whole-body pose estimation models), a series of high-performance models for 2D/3D whole-body pose estimation.
• CapeX: Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation from Textual Point Explanation
  1 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  We validate our novel approach using the MP-100 benchmark, a comprehensive dataset spanning over 100 categories and 18, 000 images.
• POISE: Pose Guided Human Silhouette Extraction under Occlusions
  9 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  Human silhouette extraction is a fundamental task in computer vision with applications in various downstream tasks.
• HAP: Structure-Aware Masked Image Modeling for Human-Centric Perception
  31 Oct 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 6 samples · 3 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  To further capture human characteristics, we propose a structure-invariant alignment loss that enforces different masked views, guided by the human part prior, to be closely aligned for the same image.
• RTMPose: Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation based on MMPose
  13 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  Recent studies on 2D pose estimation have achieved excellent performance on public benchmarks, yet its application in the industrial community still suffers from heavy model parameters and high latency.
• UniHCP: A Unified Model for Human-Centric Perceptions
  6 Mar 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 7 of 13 samples · 6 unverified
  When adapted to a specific task, UniHCP achieves new SOTAs on a wide range of human-centric tasks, e.
• Matching Is Not Enough: A Two-Stage Framework for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
  1 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  To calibrate the inaccurate matching results, we introduce a two-stage framework, where matched keypoints from the first stage are viewed as similarity-aware position proposals.
• 2D Pose Estimation based Child Action Recognition
  18 Dec 2022 1 repository listed
  We present a graph convolutional network with 2D pose estimation for the first time on child action recognition task achieving on par results with an RGB modality based model on a novel benchmark dataset containing…
• Kinematic-aware Hierarchical Attention Network for Human Pose Estimation in Videos
  29 Nov 2022 1 repository listed
  Previous video-based human pose estimation methods have shown promising results by leveraging aggregated features of consecutive frames.
• HuPR: A Benchmark for Human Pose Estimation Using Millimeter Wave Radar
  22 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  In addition to the benchmark, we propose a cross-modality training framework that leverages the ground-truth 2D keypoints representing human body joints for training, which are systematically generated from the…
• Pose for Everything: Towards Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
  21 Jul 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified
  In this paper, we introduce the task of Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation (CAPE), which aims to create a pose estimation model capable of detecting the pose of any class of object given only a few samples with keypoint…
• A Unified Framework for Domain Adaptive Pose Estimation
  1 Apr 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  In this paper, we investigate the problem of domain adaptive 2D pose estimation that transfers knowledge learned on a synthetic source domain to a target domain without supervision.
• HHP-Net: A light Heteroscedastic neural network for Head Pose estimation with uncertainty
  2 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  In this paper we introduce a novel method to estimate the head pose of people in single images starting from a small set of head keypoints.

Syntology lines on 13 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.