Multi-Person Pose Estimation

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 89 papers with code (151 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.

• Mask R-CNN
  20 Mar 2017 179 repositories listed Syntology ran 42 of 140 samples · 98 unverified · 23 pointer-only (licence)
  Our approach efficiently detects objects in an image while simultaneously generating a high-quality segmentation mask for each instance.
• 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.
• 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.
• DeeperCut: A Deeper, Stronger, and Faster Multi-Person Pose Estimation Model
  10 May 2016 16 repositories listed
  The goal of this paper is to advance the state-of-the-art of articulated pose estimation in scenes with multiple people.
• ArtTrack: Articulated Multi-person Tracking in the Wild
  5 Dec 2016 14 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 29 samples · 28 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper we propose an approach for articulated tracking of multiple people in unconstrained videos.
• 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.
• Real-time 2D Multi-Person Pose Estimation on CPU: Lightweight OpenPose
  29 Nov 2018 10 repositories listed
  In this work we adapt multi-person pose estimation architecture to use it on edge devices.
• DirectPose: Direct End-to-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation
  18 Nov 2019 9 repositories listed
  We propose the first direct end-to-end multi-person pose estimation framework, termed DirectPose.
• AlphaPose: Whole-Body Regional Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Tracking in Real-Time
  7 Nov 2022 8 repositories listed
  Accurate whole-body multi-person pose estimation and tracking is an important yet challenging topic in computer vision.
• 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.
• OpenPifPaf: Composite Fields for Semantic Keypoint Detection and Spatio-Temporal Association
  3 Mar 2021 6 repositories listed
  We present a generic neural network architecture that uses Composite Fields to detect and construct a spatio-temporal pose which is a single, connected graph whose nodes are the semantic keypoints (e.
• Distribution-Aware Coordinate Representation for Human Pose Estimation
  14 Oct 2019 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 9 samples · 4 unverified
  Interestingly, we found that the process of decoding the predicted heatmaps into the final joint coordinates in the original image space is surprisingly significant for human pose estimation performance, which…
• Cascaded Pyramid Network for Multi-Person Pose Estimation
  20 Nov 2017 5 repositories listed
  In this paper, we present a novel network structure called Cascaded Pyramid Network (CPN) which targets to relieve the problem from these "hard" keypoints.
• 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.
• Human Pose Regression with Residual Log-likelihood Estimation
  23 Jul 2021 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 11 samples · 9 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  In light of this, we propose a novel regression paradigm with Residual Log-likelihood Estimation (RLE) to capture the underlying output distribution.
• Learning Delicate Local Representations for Multi-Person Pose Estimation
  9 Mar 2020 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 unverified
  To tackle this problem, we propose an efficient attention mechanism - Pose Refine Machine (PRM) to make a trade-off between local and global representations in output features and further refine the keypoint locations.
• Camera Distance-aware Top-down Approach for 3D Multi-person Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image
  26 Jul 2019 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 7 samples · 6 unverified
  Although significant improvement has been achieved recently in 3D human pose estimation, most of the previous methods only treat a single-person case.
• CrowdPose: Efficient Crowded Scenes Pose Estimation and A New Benchmark
  2 Dec 2018 4 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient method to tackle the problem of pose estimation in the crowd and a new dataset to better evaluate algorithms.
• MultiPoseNet: Fast Multi-Person Pose Estimation using Pose Residual Network
  11 Jul 2018 4 repositories listed
  In this paper, we present MultiPoseNet, a novel bottom-up multi-person pose estimation architecture that combines a multi-task model with a novel assignment method.
• DeepCut: Joint Subset Partition and Labeling for Multi Person Pose Estimation
  20 Nov 2015 4 repositories listed
  This paper considers the task of articulated human pose estimation of multiple people in real world images.
• 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…
• FCPose: Fully Convolutional Multi-Person Pose Estimation with Dynamic Instance-Aware Convolutions
  29 May 2021 3 repositories listed
  We propose a fully convolutional multi-person pose estimation framework using dynamic instance-aware convolutions, termed FCPose.
• Learning Temporal Pose Estimation from Sparsely-Labeled Videos
  6 Jun 2019 3 repositories listed
  To reduce the need for dense annotations, we propose a PoseWarper network that leverages training videos with sparse annotations (every k frames) to learn to perform dense temporal pose propagation and estimation.
• PersonLab: Person Pose Estimation and Instance Segmentation with a Bottom-Up, Part-Based, Geometric Embedding Model
  22 Mar 2018 3 repositories listed
  We present a box-free bottom-up approach for the tasks of pose estimation and instance segmentation of people in multi-person images using an efficient single-shot model.
• 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…
• Group Pose: A Simple Baseline for End-to-End Multi-person Pose Estimation
  14 Aug 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 21 of 22 samples · 1 unverified
  State-of-the-art solutions adopt the DETR-like framework, and mainly develop the complex decoder, e.
• YOLO-Pose: Enhancing YOLO for Multi Person Pose Estimation Using Object Keypoint Similarity Loss
  14 Apr 2022 2 repositories listed
  All experiments and results reported in this paper are without any test time augmentation, unlike traditional approaches that use flip-test and multi-scale testing to boost performance.

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