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openpose
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CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab / openpose

openpose

OpenPose: Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, hands, and foot estimation

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OpenPose: Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, hands, and foot estimation

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Observed mentions: 2017-05-05 02:12:11 UTC to 2023-11-30 22:46:22 UTC.

02462017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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The input poses appear to be generated from OpenPose [0], which uses regular images as input. With the creation of stable diffusion video, you could theoretically prompt it to make a video of what you wanted, then run it through OpenPose. But I think the more realistic approach is to take a video of yourself doing the motions you want the AI to generate, and run that through OpenPose instead. Using just words leaves a lot to the model’s interpretation. I feel like you might wind up spending a lot of time manually fixing little things, similar to how you might infill the “wrong” parts of an AI generated image. It might be easier to just take a 15 second video to get the exact skeleton animation you want. [0] https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose
In Animate Anyone: Image-to-video synthesis for character animation
Hi guys, I built this project for fun and I thought it would also be a good practice for me. However, I have read the OpenPose License which strictly disallows their project for commercial use. My project is for research use only and I'm not making any money from it. I have mentioned that I implemented OpenPose and link to their GitHub repo. And I also copy and paste their whole license into my repo license. I want to know is it still possible for me to violate their license in any way? https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose/blo...
In Show HN: Basketball shot and shooting pose analysis with machine learning
Hi, thanks for telling me this. I'm definitely not using it for commercial purpose. I did read their whole license on their GitHub page. https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose/blo... I'm not really good at English, can you please help me with it? From their GitHub LICENSE: 1. ACADEMIC OR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION NONCOMMERCIAL RESEARCH USE ONLY 2. Licensor retains exclusive ownership of any copy of the Software (as defined below) licensed under this Agreement and hereby grants to Licensee a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Software for noncommercial research purposes, without the right to sublicense, pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 3. PERMITTED USES: The Software may be used for your own noncommercial internal research purposes. Here are my points: 1. I build this only
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for fun, and I'm not making any money from it, which makes it non-commercial? 2. I have mentioned that I implemented OpenPose and link to their GitHub repo. 3. I have copy and paste all of their license into my repo license. 4. Basically, I have no intention of stealing OpenPose and claim it as my own research. I just found out a cool implementation of their project. If anyone is interested in the pose analysis, I have provided the link on my README which will redirect him to the CMU's OpenPose repo. Is it still possible to have any license problem? I'm seriously not sure about it.
In Show HN: Shooting pose analysis and basketball shot detection
Just built a gesture controlled robot[1] with the Xavier board. We were able to run OpenPose[2] at 27FPS, which we found was even faster than running it on K80 on AWS p2.xlarge. It was a pain to install caffe and all the dependencies on an ARM processor, but it worked out eventually. We were able to train and run Tensorflow 2 models quickly also. Felt like using an actual GPU at a fraction of the cost. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF8zmTaa17s [2] https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose
In Jetson AGX Xavier
You're right, it's quite plan really: > PERMITTED USES: The Software may be used for your own noncommercial internal research purposes. You understand and agree that Licensor is not obligated to implement any suggestions and/or feedback you might provide regarding the Software, but to the extent Licensor does so, you are not entitled to any compensation related thereto. from https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose/blo.... According to the article, that's powering the pose estimation here. It's not for sale _yet_, so they may be in the clear for all the demo-ing they've been doing. Would CMU even be open providing a paid, commercial license? Does anyone know how CMU usually handles situations like this?
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