Pose estimation outputs a skeleton of keypoints for each person, frame by frame. From those joint coordinates a product can count reps, analyse a golf swing, or recognise gestures. MediaPipe Pose, RTMPose, and ViTPose are common engines.
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
Pose estimation drives rep counters, swing analysis and gestures, and jitter between frames is what makes them feel unreliable. This volume covers pose estimation in depth: keypoints and skeletons, MediaPipe Pose, RTMPose and ViTPose, tracking poses over time, and on-device deployment. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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