Human Pose Estimation with Deep Neural Networks

Keypoint estimation, Object detection, R-CNN, Transfer learning, ResNet
Armin Kappeler and Aadit Patel
8 weeks · 8-10 hours per week
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.

Prerequisites

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:

TOOLS
  • Basics of PIL
  • Basics of JSON
  • Basics of Matplotlib
  • Intermediate PyTorch
  • Intermediate NumPy
TECHNIQUES
  • Intermediate machine learning concepts such as classification and regression
  • Basics of matrix and vector operations

you will learn

In this liveProject, you’ll learn how to build deep neural networks, and how to utilize them for computer vision. The building blocks of this project are easily transferable to other deep learning and computer vision challenges, such as face recognition, optical character recognition, and self-driving vehicles.

  • Object detection algorithms
  • Keypoint detection algorithms
  • Transfer Learning
  • Fully convolutional networks
  • Learning and using the main building blocks and layers of deep learning models
  • Training deep learning models on images
  • Deploying deep learning models

features

Self-paced
You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
Project roadmap
Each project is divided into several achievable steps.
Peer support
Chat with other participants within the liveProject platform.
Compare with others
For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
Book and video resources
Excerpts from Manning books and videos are included, as well as references to other resources.

project outline

Introduction

about this liveProject

1. Getting the Data

1.1. Getting the Data

1.2. Submit Your Work

Solution

2. Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks

2.1. Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks

2.2. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)

2.3. Structuring Deep Learning Projects and Hyperparameters Tuning

2.4. Submit Your Work

Solution

3. Object Detection

3.1. Object Detection

3.2. Object Detection with R-CNN, SSD, and YOLO

3.3. Submit Your Work

Solution

4. Human Keypoint Estimation

4.1. Human Keypoint Estimation—Model Training

4.2. Human Keypoint Estimation—Transfer Learning

4.3. ResNet

4.4. Transfer Learning

4.5. Submit Your Work

Solution

5. Model Deployment / Inference Demo using the Webcam

5.1. Model Deployment/Inference Demo Using the Webcam

5.2. Submit Your Work

Solution

Summary

Project Conclusions

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project authors

Armin Kappeler
Armin Kappeler received his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 2016 where he worked on different deep neural networks 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.