Applied Machine Learning for Health and Fitness: A Practical Guide to Machine Learning with Deep Vision, Sensors and IoT

© Kevin Ashley 2020

K. AshleyApplied Machine Learning for Health and Fitnesshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5772-2_8

8. 3D Pose Estimation

Kevin Ashley¹  

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Belmont, CA, USA

 

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe? O mighty process!

—Leonardo da Vinci, Camera Obscura

Figure 8-1

Surfer pose estimation with dense surface

Overview

In the previous chapter, you focused on estimating keypoints of human body poses, mostly based on a flat images. In other words, our goal was reconstructing joints of the human body, without paying attention to analyzing how these joints are positioned in space. The task of estimating ...