Use the [MediaPipe Pose Landmark Detection](https://developers.google.com/mediapipe/solutions/vision/pose_landmarker) solution to detect and track a human pose in video. ## Used Rerun types [`Image`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/archetypes/image), [`Points2D`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/archetypes/points2d), [`Points3D`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/archetypes/points3d), [`ClassDescription`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/datatypes/class_description), [`AnnotationContext`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/archetypes/annotation_context), [`SegmentationImage`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/archetypes/segmentation_image) ## Background Human pose tracking is a task in computer vision that focuses on identifying key body locations, analyzing posture, and categorizing movements. At the heart of this technology is a pre-trained machine-learning model to assess the visual input and recognize landmarks on the body in both image coordinates and 3D world coordinates. The use cases and applications of this technology include but are not limited to Human-Computer Interaction, Sports Analysis, Gaming, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Health, etc. In this example, the [MediaPipe Pose Landmark Detection](https://developers.google.com/mediapipe/solutions/vision/pose_landmarker) solution was utilized to detect and track human pose landmarks and produces segmentation masks for humans. Rerun was employed to visualize the output of the Mediapipe solution over time to make it easy to analyze the behavior. ## Logging and visualizing with Rerun The visualizations in this example were created with the following Rerun code. ### Timelines For each processed video frame, all data sent to Rerun is associated with the two [`timelines`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/concepts/logging-and-ingestion/timelines) `time` and `frame_idx`. ```python rr.set_time("time", duration=bgr_frame.time) rr.set_time("frame_idx", sequence=bgr_frame.idx) ``` ### Video The input video is logged as a sequence of [`Image`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/archetypes/image) objects to the 'Video' entity. ```python rr.log("video/rgb", rr.Image(rgb).compress(jpeg_quality=75)) ``` ### Segmentation mask The segmentation result is logged through a combination of two archetypes. The segmentation image itself is logged as a [`SegmentationImage`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/archetypes/segmentation_image) and contains the id for each pixel. The color is determined by the [`AnnotationContext`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/archetypes/annotation_context) which is logged with `static=True` as it should apply to the whole sequence. #### Label mapping ```python rr.log( "video/mask", rr.AnnotationContext([ rr.AnnotationInfo(id=0, label="Background"), rr.AnnotationInfo(id=1, label="Person", color=(0, 0, 0)), ]), static=True, ) ``` #### Segmentation image ```python rr.log("video/mask", rr.SegmentationImage(binary_segmentation_mask.astype(np.uint8))) ``` ### Body pose points Logging the body pose as a skeleton involves specifying the connectivity of its keypoints (i.e., pose landmarks), extracting the pose landmarks, and logging them as points to Rerun. In this example, both the 2D and 3D estimates from Mediapipe are visualized. The skeletons are logged through a combination of two archetypes. First, a static [`ClassDescription`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/datatypes/class_description) is logged, that contains the information which maps keypoint ids to labels and how to connect the keypoints. By defining these connections Rerun will automatically add lines between them. Mediapipe provides the `POSE_CONNECTIONS` variable which contains the list of `(from, to)` landmark indices that define the connections. Second, the actual keypoint positions are logged in 2D and 3D as [`Points2D`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/archetypes/points2d) and [`Points3D`](https://www.rerun.io/docs/reference/types/archetypes/points3d) archetypes, respectively. #### Label mapping and keypoint connections ```python rr.log( "/", rr.AnnotationContext( rr.ClassDescription( info=rr.AnnotationInfo(id=1, label="Person"), keypoint_annotations=[rr.AnnotationInfo(id=lm.value, label=lm.name) for lm in mp_pose.PoseLandmark], keypoint_connections=mp_pose.POSE_CONNECTIONS, ) ), static=True, ) ``` #### 2D points ```python rr.log("video/pose/points", rr.Points2D(landmark_positions_2d, class_ids=1, keypoint_ids=mp_pose.PoseLandmark)) ``` #### 3D points ```python rr.log( "person/pose/points", rr.Points3D(landmark_positions_3d, class_ids=1, keypoint_ids=mp_pose.PoseLandmark), ) ``` ## Run the code To run this example, make sure you have the Rerun repository checked out and the latest SDK installed: ```bash pip install --upgrade rerun-sdk # install the latest Rerun SDK git clone git@github.com:rerun-io/rerun.git # Clone the repository cd rerun git checkout latest # Check out the commit matching the latest SDK release ``` Install the necessary libraries specified in the requirements file: ```bash pip install -e examples/python/human_pose_tracking ``` To experiment with the provided example, simply execute the main Python script: ```bash python -m human_pose_tracking # run the example ``` If you wish to customize it for various videos, adjust the maximum frames, or explore additional features, use the CLI with the `--help` option for guidance: ```bash python -m human_pose_tracking --help ```