Animal Pose Estimation

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30 shown of 36 papers with code (48 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.

• AP-10K: A Benchmark for Animal Pose Estimation in the Wild
  28 Aug 2021 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 8 of 9 samples · 1 unverified
  The experimental results provide sound empirical evidence on the superiority of learning from diverse animals species in terms of both accuracy and generalization ability.
• APT-36K: A Large-scale Benchmark for Animal Pose Estimation and Tracking
  12 Jun 2022 4 repositories listed
  Based on APT-36K, we benchmark several representative models on the following three tracks: (1) supervised animal pose estimation on a single frame under intra- and inter-domain transfer learning settings, (2)…
• 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.
• Continuous Surface Embeddings
  24 Nov 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 6 samples · 1 unverified
  In this work, we focus on the task of learning and representing dense correspondences in deformable object categories.
• Animal Avatars: Reconstructing Animatable 3D Animals from Casual Videos
  25 Mar 2024 2 repositories listed
  We present a method to build animatable dog avatars from monocular videos.
• 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…
• ViTPose++: Vision Transformer for Generic Body Pose Estimation
  7 Dec 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 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…
• Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut
  12 Apr 2022 2 repositories listed
  Estimating the pose of multiple animals is a challenging computer vision problem: frequent interactions cause occlusions and complicate the association of detected keypoints to the correct individuals, as well as having…
• MBE-ARI: A Multimodal Dataset Mapping Bi-directional Engagement in Animal-Robot Interaction
  11 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Animal-robot interaction (ARI) remains an unexplored challenge in robotics, as robots struggle to interpret the complex, multimodal communication cues of animals, such as body language, movement, and vocalizations.
• Probabilistic Prompt Distribution Learning for Animal Pose Estimation
  20 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  To this end, we propose a novel probabilistic prompting approach to fully explore textual descriptions, which could alleviate the diversity issues caused by long-tail property and increase the adaptability of prompts on…
• Consistent multi-animal pose estimation in cattle using dynamic Kalman filter based tracking
  13 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Such a higher level representation allows to answer a wide variety of research questions simultaneously, without the need to develop repeatedly tailored computer vision algorithms.
• Learning Structure-Supporting Dependencies via Keypoint Interactive Transformer for General Mammal Pose Estimation
  25 Feb 2025 1 repository listed
  To this end, we propose a Keypoint Interactive Transformer (KIT) to learn instance-level structure-supporting dependencies for general mammal pose estimation.
• 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.
• Towards Multi-Modal Animal Pose Estimation: A Survey and In-Depth Analysis
  12 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  Animal pose estimation (APE) aims to locate the animal body parts using a diverse array of sensor and modality inputs (e.
• 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.
• Domain adaptive pose estimation via multi-level alignment
  23 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  Specifically, we first utilize image style transer to ensure that images from the source and target domains have a similar distribution.
• APTv2: Benchmarking Animal Pose Estimation and Tracking with a Large-scale Dataset and Beyond
  25 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  Animal Pose Estimation and Tracking (APT) is a critical task in detecting and monitoring the keypoints of animals across a series of video frames, which is essential for understanding animal behavior.
• Telling Left from Right: Identifying Geometry-Aware Semantic Correspondence
  28 Nov 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 11 of 15 samples · 4 unverified · 15 pointer-only (licence)
  This paper identifies the importance of being geometry-aware for semantic correspondence and reveals a limitation of the features of current foundation models under simple post-processing.
• Rethinking pose estimation in crowds: overcoming the detection information-bottleneck and ambiguity
  13 Jun 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 4 of 6 samples · 2 unverified
  Frequent interactions between individuals are a fundamental challenge for pose estimation algorithms.
• SPAC-Net: Synthetic Pose-aware Animal ControlNet for Enhanced Pose Estimation
  29 May 2023 1 repository listed
  Our work demonstrates the potential for synthetic data to overcome the challenge of limited annotated data in animal pose estimation.
• ScarceNet: Animal Pose Estimation with Scarce Annotations
  27 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  To this end, we propose the ScarceNet, a pseudo label-based approach to generate artificial labels for the unlabeled images.
• 3D-POP - An automated annotation approach to facilitate markerless 2D-3D tracking of freely moving birds with marker-based motion capture
  23 Mar 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 13 of 15 samples · 2 unverified
  Recent advances in machine learning and computer vision are revolutionizing the field of animal behavior by enabling researchers to track the poses and locations of freely moving animals without any marker attachment.
• Prior-Aware Synthetic Data to the Rescue: Animal Pose Estimation with Very Limited Real Data
  30 Aug 2022 1 repository listed
  Here, we present a very data efficient strategy targeted for pose estimation in quadrupeds that requires only a small amount of real images from the target animal.
• CLAMP: Prompt-based Contrastive Learning for Connecting Language and Animal Pose
  23 Jun 2022 1 repository listed
  Motivated by the progress of visual-language research, we propose that pre-trained language models (e.
• Animal Kingdom: A Large and Diverse Dataset for Animal Behavior Understanding
  18 Apr 2022 1 repository listed
  More specifically, our dataset contains 50 hours of annotated videos to localize relevant animal behavior segments in long videos for the video grounding task, 30K video sequences for the fine-grained multi-label action…
• 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.
• T-LEAP: Occlusion-robust pose estimation of walking cows using temporal information
  16 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  On occluded data, our temporal approach outperformed the static one by up to 32.
• From Synthetic to Real: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Animal Pose Estimation
  27 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  Existing works circumvent this problem with pseudo labels generated from data of other easily accessible domains such as synthetic data.
• AcinoSet: A 3D Pose Estimation Dataset and Baseline Models for Cheetahs in the Wild
  24 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  Animals are capable of extreme agility, yet understanding their complex dynamics, which have ecological, biomechanical and evolutionary implications, remains challenging.

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