Simple Pose Estimation with Hourglass Model
Pose Estimation seemed an interesting idea for me to explore and implement after my previous project, which was fast style transfer. I searched around for the latest literature regarding this and came across the Hourglass model, implemented by Alejandro Newell et al. I read the paper and found the results fascinating since it managed to do a pretty job of detecting different joints in the human body. Then I searched for a Tensorflow implementation and came across Walid Benbihi's Github implementation . The dataset text file available in his project was especially useful since it was a dictionary of the MPII image dataset . This dictionary contained image names along with the other useful coordinate data for the joints in an easy-to-parse format. MPII does provide this data on their website but this dictionary was easier to work with. I was definitely interested now but the hourglass model seemed a bit complex and wondered if there was a simpler way to detect pose. I wond...