IDEA-Research/DWPose
A two-stage distilled deep learning model for whole-body human pose estimation across multiple model sizes.

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DWPose provides effective whole-body pose estimation by leveraging two-stage knowledge distillation to train models of varying sizes for detecting body, hand, and face keypoints. The project is built on MMPose and integrates with ControlNet for improved pose-to-image generation. It serves as a drop-in replacement for OpenPose in generative AI pipelines.
Frequently asked
- What is IDEA-Research/DWPose?
- A two-stage distilled deep learning model for whole-body human pose estimation across multiple model sizes.
- Is DWPose open source?
- Yes — IDEA-Research/DWPose is open source, released under the Apache-2.0 license.
- What language is DWPose written in?
- IDEA-Research/DWPose is primarily written in Python.
- How popular is DWPose?
- IDEA-Research/DWPose has 2.8k stars on GitHub.
- Where can I find DWPose?
- IDEA-Research/DWPose is on GitHub at https://github.com/IDEA-Research/DWPose.