How to Use Keypoint Communities for Human and Car Pose Estimation

Welcome to the world of Keypoint Communities! This repository presents a bottom-up approach for estimating human and car poses with impressive accuracy and efficiency. By understanding the relationships among keypoints, we can significantly enhance how machines perceive and interpret human and object movements. Whether you’re a budding data scientist or a seasoned AI developer, this guide will help you navigate through the installation and usage of the keypoint communities algorithm.

Setting Up Keypoint Communities

To get started with Keypoint Communities, you’ll need to set up your development environment. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown:

• Ensure you have Python 3.7, 3.8, or 3.9 installed.
• Create a virtual environment – this keeps your work organized and dependencies isolated.
• Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/DuncanZauss/Keypoint_Communities.git

• Navigate into the cloned directory:

cd Keypoint_Communities

• Install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Obtaining Keypoint Weights

Keypoint weights are essential for the algorithm to understand how to prioritize different keypoints based on their centrality in the pose graph. Follow these steps:

• Download the preprocessed annotations from the MS COCO WholeBody dataset and/or the ApolloCar3D dataset:

cd Keypoint_Communities/src
wget https://github.com/DuncanZauss/Keypoint_Communities/releases/download/v0.1.0/person_keypoints_train2017_wholebody_pifpaf_style.json
wget https://github.com/DuncanZauss/Keypoint_Communities/releases/download/v0.1.0/apollo_keypoints_66_train.json

• Compute the average Euclidean distance for every edge in the dataset:

python Compute_edge_weights.py

• Compute training weights with centrality measures:

python Compute_training_weights.py

Training Your Model

Once the weights are computed, you’re ready to train your model. Begin by downloading the MS COCO dataset and the WholeBody keypoint annotations as per the guidelines provided. Start training using the following command:

python -m openpifpaf.train --dataset=wholebody --lr=0.0001 --momentum=0.95 --b-scale=10.0 --clip-grad-value=10 --epochs=350 --lr-decay 330 340 --lr-decay-epochs=10 --lr-warm-up-start-epoch=250 --batch-size=16 --weight-decay=1e-5 --wholebody-upsample=2 --wholebody-extended-scale --wholebody-orientation-invariant=0.1 --checkpoint=shufflenetv2k30 --head-consolidation=create --wholebody-val-annotations=dataset_path/person_keypoints_val2017_wholebody_pifpaf_style.json --wholebody-train-annotations=dataset_path/person_keypoints_train2017_wholebody_pifpaf_style.json --wholebody-apply-local-centrality-weights

Evaluating Your Model

After training, it’s time to evaluate your model. First, download the annotation file from here and then use the following command to evaluate:

python -m openpifpaf.eval --dataset=wholebody --checkpoint=shufflenetv2k30-wholebody --force-complete-pose --seed-threshold=0.2 --force-complete-caf-th=0.001 --wholebody-val-annotations=dataset_path/coco_wholebody_val_v1.0.json

Upon completion, you will receive metrics that evaluate the performance of your model.

Understanding the Code: An Analogy

Imagine you are organizing a sports team, where every player represents a keypoint. You want to figure out which players (keypoints) work best together to achieve victory (accurate pose estimation). Just like you would analyze the players’ performance together, Keypoint Communities uses a graph to show how each keypoint interacts with others, enhancing communication between them. In essence, it assigns a level of importance (training weights) to each player based on how well they connect with the team and can contribute to the game (pose).

Troubleshooting

If you encounter issues during installation or use, consider these steps:

• Ensure you have the required Python version and pip is updated.
• Double-check that all necessary packages are correctly installed and updated.
• If the model evaluation does not run as expected, verify that the correct dataset paths have been provided.
• For persistent issues, refer to the official documentation or seek help from the community.

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Final Thoughts

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