Pose recognition with Intel's Realsense and OpenVino

Just a short post today on Intel's Openvino toolkit. It is really a great collection of machine learning models that can speed up development. I played around with their pose estimation model and the results are quite good.

Final result of the pose detection system

This system combined with the Intel Realsense depth cameras offer a promising real world solution to the pose estimation problem. As shown in the video, it works reasonably well on my laptop with an NVIDIA GPU (1060) Graphics card. The white spheres indicate the feet limbs and thanks to the Realsense depth camera we can estimate the positions of the limbs in 3D space.

Although I haven't tried it yet but the models can be converted to work on edge platforms such as the Movidius device.

Obviously this opens up a whole array of applications which I hope to share again in a future post.

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