Nothing happens until something moves.
—Albert Einstein
Background
Pose estimation is the task of determining a human pose from an image or a sequence of images. It also serves as a first step for mapping the pose in 3D, which is covered in the next chapter. For biomechanics, the method provides a lot of useful kinematic information and has a multitude of applications. In the past, scientists often needed to go through images or video frames manually, mapping joints and limbs. With machine learning we now have models that do the work automatically, in near real-time (Figure ...
