# Hzzone/pytorch-openpose

pytorch implementation of openpose including Hand and Body Pose Estimation.

Repository: https://github.com/Hzzone/pytorch-openpose
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pytorch-openpose
Language: Jupyter Notebook
License Family: other
Topics: openpose, pytorch, pose-estimation
Last push: 2024-07-09T15:49:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2851, "days_push": 785, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2321, forks 419 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:37.118234+00:00)

## What it is
A PyTorch reimplementation of OpenPose for body and hand pose estimation, with models converted directly from the original OpenPose caffemodel. It provides demo scripts for images, webcam feeds, and video files.

## Use cases
- detect human body keypoints in images
- estimate hand keypoints from photos
- run pose estimation on webcam video
- extract skeleton overlays from video files
- replace caffe-based openpose with a pure python pytorch pipeline
- build gesture or motion analysis on top of pose keypoints

## When to choose
- you want OpenPose-style body/hand pose estimation in pure Python with PyTorch
- you need an easy-to-hack research baseline for pose estimation
- you cannot build the original C++ OpenPose and just need keypoints

## When to avoid
- you need production-grade performance or the latest pose estimation accuracy
- you need face keypoint detection out of the box
- you require a maintained project with a license or active development

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: computer-vision, image-processing, video-processing, machine-learning, deep-learning
- domain: computer-vision, image-processing, machine-learning, deep-learning
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: pose-estimation, openpose, pytorch, human-pose, hand-keypoints, body-keypoints, gpu

## Member repositories
- Hzzone/pytorch-openpose (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.118234+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:38:38.850299+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Hzzone/pytorch-openpose (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.118234+00:00, sha 8dcff0215d07)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.