OpenPose showed that one model could find joints for many people at once and popularised skeleton tracking. Modern products usually pick faster successors for real-time use, but OpenPose remains the common name people search and a baseline for comparison.
The book · Volume 6 of 7
AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Models and Inference to Computer Vision, Speech, Search, and Generative Video
OpenPose made multi-person skeletons popular, and teams now ask whether a lighter successor can replace it in production. This volume covers OpenPose within the pose-tracking stack: pose estimation and keypoints, MediaPipe Pose, RTMPose and ViTPose, and on-device versus server deployment. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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