Human Pose Estimation with Deep Neural Networks

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intermediate Python • intermediate PyTorch • intermediate NumPy • basics of deep learning
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object detection and keypoint detection algorithms • transfer learning • training CNNs on images • deploy human pose estimator using webcam
Armin Kappeler and Aadit Patel
8 weeks · 8-10 hours per week · ADVANCED
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In this liveProject, you’ll take on the role of a machine learning engineer working for a company developing augmented reality apps. These apps include games, virtual shopping assistants, and fitness coaches that need to be able to reliably recognize the shape of a human body. Your challenge is to create an application for human pose estimation: detecting a human body in an image and estimating its key points such as knees and elbows. To do this, you’ll build a convolutional neural network from scratch, training your model using Google Colab and your GPU. At the end of this liveProject, you’ll have completed an interactive demo application that uses a simple webcam to detect and predict human keypoints.
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Armin Kappeler
Armin Kappeler received his MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 2016 where he worked on different deep neural network applications for Image and video classification and recovery. For his thesis, he applied deep neural networks to video super-resolution. In 2015, he joined Verizon Media Group (Yahoo Research) as a research engineer, where he is working on image captioning, active learning, human pose estimation, and other related computer vision applications.
Aadit Patel
Aadit Patel received a B.S. in aerospace engineering and an M.S. in computer science, both from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where his primary focuses included autonomous systems and reinforcement learning. He has several years of industry experience as a research engineer and data scientist, including at Boeing, Yahoo, and Flyr Labs. Currently, Aadit is a lead data scientist at The Not Company, where he works on custom deep learning architectures to generate novel plant-based foods.

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This liveProject is for intermediate Python programmers who are familiar with machine learning. Knowledge of PyTorch and NumPy will be helpful. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be familiar with:

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