Human Pose Estimation ML Frameworks

Tools and methods for estimating 2D/3D human body poses, hand poses, and pose tracking from images, videos, or sensor data. Does NOT include general object pose estimation, hand-object interaction datasets, or volumetric human capture/reconstruction.

There are 54 human pose estimation frameworks tracked. 1 score above 70 (verified tier). The highest-rated is talmolab/sleap at 73/100 with 566 stars. 1 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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#	Framework	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	talmolab/sleap A deep learning framework for multi-animal pose tracking.	73	Verified	566	Python
2	kennymckormick/pyskl A toolbox for skeleton-based action recognition.	60	Established	1,213	Python
3	open-mmlab/mmaction2 OpenMMLab's Next Generation Video Understanding Toolbox and Benchmark	60	Established	4,951	Python
4	jgraving/DeepPoseKit a toolkit for pose estimation using deep learning	58	Established	405	Python
5	kenshohara/3D-ResNets-PyTorch 3D ResNets for Action Recognition (CVPR 2018)	51	Established	4,043	Python
6	DenisTome/Lifting-from-the-Deep-release Implementation of "Lifting from the Deep: Convolutional 3D Pose Estimation...	51	Established	450	Python
7	natanielruiz/deep-head-pose :fire::fire: Deep Learning Head Pose Estimation using PyTorch.	51	Established	1,660	Python
8	eldar/pose-tensorflow Human Pose estimation with TensorFlow framework	51	Established	1,144	C++
9	leoxiaobin/deep-high-resolution-net.pytorch The project is an official implementation of our CVPR2019 paper "Deep...	51	Established	4,466	Cuda
10	open-mmlab/mmskeleton A OpenMMLAB toolbox for human pose estimation, skeleton-based action...	51	Established	3,096	Python
11	CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose_train Training repository for OpenPose	51	Established	612	Python
12	fire717/movenet.pytorch A Pytorch implementation of MoveNet from Google. Include training code and...	50	Established	413	Python
13	cleardusk/3DDFA The PyTorch improved version of TPAMI 2017 paper: Face Alignment in Full...	50	Established	3,681	Python
14	ibaiGorordo/Sapiens-Pytorch-Inference Minimal code and examnples for inferencing Sapiens foundation human models in Pytorch	49	Emerging	155	Jupyter Notebook
15	jimmyyhwu/pose-interpreter-networks Real-time robotic object pose estimation with deep learning	46	Emerging	127	Jupyter Notebook
16	Naman-ntc/Pytorch-Human-Pose-Estimation Implementation of various human pose estimation models in pytorch on...	46	Emerging	486	Python
17	EricGuo5513/HumanML3D HumanML3D: A large and diverse 3d human motion-language dataset.	46	Emerging	1,408	Python
18	kenshohara/3D-ResNets 3D ResNets for Action Recognition	44	Emerging	122	Lua
19	shlizee/Predict-Cluster Repository for PREDICT & CLUSTER: Unsupervised Skeleton Based Action Recognition	44	Emerging	110	Jupyter Notebook
20	octiapp/KerasPersonLab Keras-tensorflow implementation of PersonLab (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08225)	43	Emerging	161	Jupyter Notebook
21	sbelharbi/bah-dataset Pytorch code for "BAH Dataset for Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition in...	43	Emerging	10	Python
22	mrezaei92/TriHorn-Net Official PyTorch implementation of TriHorn-Net	43	Emerging	83	Python
23	sithu31296/pose-estimation Easy to use SOTA Top-Down Multi-person Pose Estimation Models in PyTorch	42	Emerging	54	Python
24	robertklee/COCO-Human-Pose Train a stacked hourglass deep neural network for human pose estimation on...	42	Emerging	49	Python
25	UT-Austin-RPL/Ditto Code for Ditto: Building Digital Twins of Articulated Objects from Interaction	42	Emerging	125	Jupyter Notebook
26	hbilen/dynamic-image-nets Dynamic Image Networks for Action Recognition	41	Emerging	186	Matlab
27	cbsudux/awesome-human-pose-estimation A collection of awesome resources in Human Pose estimation.	41	Emerging	2,481	—
28	esemeniuc/openpose-docker A docker build file for CMU openpose with Python API support	38	Emerging	88	Dockerfile
29	negarhdr/skeleton-based-action-recognition This repository provides implementation of a baseline method and our...	37	Emerging	40	Python
30	akashsengupta1997/HierarchicalProbabilistic3DHuman Code repository for the paper: Hierarchical Kinematic Probability...	37	Emerging	204	Python
31	sydsim/personlab-tf implementation of PersonLab(https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08225) using TF-slim	35	Emerging	103	Jupyter Notebook
32	kristinbranson/FlyDiscoAnalysis Modular analysis pipeline for videos of freely walking and socializing fly...	35	Emerging	4	MATLAB
33	rludlow/3d-pose-2d-keypoints 3d Human Pose Estimation from 2d Keypoints	33	Emerging	77	Jupyter Notebook
34	robot-perception-group/AirPose This repository contains the code of AirPose, our multi-view fusion network...	33	Emerging	56	Python
35	ZiyiZhang27/Dite-HRNet [IJCAI 2022] Code for the paper "Dite-HRNet: Dynamic Lightweight...	33	Emerging	78	Python
36	Shaw-git/Lightweight-Head-Pose-Estimation Code for TMM 2022 "Accurate Head Pose Estimation Using Image Rectification...	33	Emerging	48	Python
37	UPC-ViRVIG/DragPoser Official Code for Eurographics 2025 paper "DragPoser: Motion Reconstruction...	32	Emerging	13	Python
38	nefeliandreou/PoseRepresentation Official implementation of dual quaternion transformations as described in...	31	Emerging	35	Python
39	OscarSantosMu/TF_pose_estimation_and_Blender Blender animations by saved human pose estimation points.	31	Emerging	4	PureBasic
40	McDo/arcsim-smpl SMPL model obstacle support for Arcsim-0.2.1	28	Experimental	11	Mathematica
41	uyoung-jeong/PoseBH PoseBH: Prototypical Multi-Dataset Training Beyond Human Pose Estimation	28	Experimental	22	Python
42	Mostafa-Nafie/Head-Pose-Estimation This project utilizes machine learning algorithms to find the direction in...	28	Experimental	62	Jupyter Notebook
43	BenjaminFiltjens/MS-GCN Skeleton-based action segmentation with multi-stage spatial-temporal graph...	27	Experimental	37	Python
44	thetuantrinh/UWB-Radar-Hand-Pose-Estimation Real-Time Hand Pose Estimation Using FMCW Radar on Resource-Limited Edge Devices	24	Experimental	4	Python
45	ViTAE-Transformer/APTv2 The official repo for the extension of [NeurIPS'22] "APT-36K: A Large-scale...	23	Experimental	28	Python
46	MSD-IRIMAS/DeepRehabPile Deep Learning for Skeleton Based Human Motion Rehabilitation Assessment: A Benchmark	22	Experimental	10	Python
47	Visual-Pose-Lab/awesome-pose-estimation resources on human pose estimation and related topics	21	Experimental	9	—
48	Entscheider/depthhead Head pose estimation using depth data and a hough forest	20	Experimental	6	Rust
49	sijeong-kim/Truncation-Robust-3D-Human-Pose-Estimation Truncation-robust 3D human pose estimation with reduced frame flickering....	16	Experimental	2	—
50	nimanthakasun/cnn_robotarm This project implements a markerless motion capture system using...	14	Experimental	8	Python
51	anurag629/Human_Action_Recognition Part-based Graph Convolutional Network (PB-GCN) for action recognition on...	12	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
52	padillacoreanolab/SLEAP_Data Scripts and commands to run SLEAP for animal pose estimtion	11	Experimental	—	—
53	tachillon/build-openpose-using-docker Build OpenPose GitHub Project using docker	11	Experimental	—	Dockerfile
54	revanurambareesh/multiperson Repo for multiperson 3D human pose estimation	10	Experimental	2	—

Comparisons in this category

mmaction2 and mmskeleton (60 vs 51) 3D-ResNets-PyTorch and 3D-ResNets (51 vs 44)