# ViTPose
## Overview
The ViTPose model was proposed in [ViTPose: Simple Vision Transformer Baselines for Human Pose Estimation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.12484) by Yufei Xu, Jing Zhang, Qiming Zhang, Dacheng Tao. ViTPose employs a standard, non-hierarchical [Vision Transformer](vit) as backbone for the task of keypoint estimation. A simple decoder head is added on top to predict the heatmaps from a given image. Despite its simplicity, the model gets state-of-the-art results on the challenging MS COCO Keypoint Detection benchmark. The model was further improved in [ViTPose++: Vision Transformer for Generic Body Pose Estimation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04246) where the authors employ
a mixture-of-experts (MoE) module in the ViT backbone along with pre-training on more data, which further enhances the performance.
The abstract from the paper is the following:
*Although no specific domain knowledge is considered in the design, plain vision transformers have shown excellent performance in visual recognition tasks. However, little effort has been made to reveal the potential of such simple structures for pose estimation tasks. In this paper, we show the surprisingly good capabilities of plain vision transformers for pose estimation from various aspects, namely simplicity in model structure, scalability in model size, flexibility in training paradigm, and transferability of knowledge between models, through a simple baseline model called ViTPose. Specifically, ViTPose employs plain and non-hierarchical vision transformers as backbones to extract features for a given person instance and a lightweight decoder for pose estimation. It can be scaled up from 100M to 1B parameters by taking the advantages of the scalable model capacity and high parallelism of transformers, setting a new Pareto front between throughput and performance. Besides, ViTPose is very flexible regarding the attention type, input resolution, pre-training and finetuning strategy, as well as dealing with multiple pose tasks. We also empirically demonstrate that the knowledge of large ViTPose models can be easily transferred to small ones via a simple knowledge token. Experimental results show that our basic ViTPose model outperforms representative methods on the challenging MS COCO Keypoint Detection benchmark, while the largest model sets a new state-of-the-art.*
ViTPose architecture. Taken from the original paper.
This model was contributed by [nielsr](https://huggingface.co/nielsr) and [sangbumchoi](https://github.com/SangbumChoi).
The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/ViTAE-Transformer/ViTPose).
## Usage Tips
ViTPose is a so-called top-down keypoint detection model. This means that one first uses an object detector, like [RT-DETR](rt_detr.md), to detect people (or other instances) in an image. Next, ViTPose takes the cropped images as input and predicts the keypoints for each of them.
```py
import torch
import requests
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
from transformers import AutoProcessor, RTDetrForObjectDetection, VitPoseForPoseEstimation
device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
url = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000000139.jpg"
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Stage 1. Detect humans on the image
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# You can choose any detector of your choice
person_image_processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("PekingU/rtdetr_r50vd_coco_o365")
person_model = RTDetrForObjectDetection.from_pretrained("PekingU/rtdetr_r50vd_coco_o365", device_map=device)
inputs = person_image_processor(images=image, return_tensors="pt").to(device)
with torch.no_grad():
outputs = person_model(**inputs)
results = person_image_processor.post_process_object_detection(
outputs, target_sizes=torch.tensor([(image.height, image.width)]), threshold=0.3
)
result = results[0] # take first image results
# Human label refers 0 index in COCO dataset
person_boxes = result["boxes"][result["labels"] == 0]
person_boxes = person_boxes.cpu().numpy()
# Convert boxes from VOC (x1, y1, x2, y2) to COCO (x1, y1, w, h) format
person_boxes[:, 2] = person_boxes[:, 2] - person_boxes[:, 0]
person_boxes[:, 3] = person_boxes[:, 3] - person_boxes[:, 1]
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Stage 2. Detect keypoints for each person found
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
image_processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("usyd-community/vitpose-base-simple")
model = VitPoseForPoseEstimation.from_pretrained("usyd-community/vitpose-base-simple", device_map=device)
inputs = image_processor(image, boxes=[person_boxes], return_tensors="pt").to(device)
with torch.no_grad():
outputs = model(**inputs)
pose_results = image_processor.post_process_pose_estimation(outputs, boxes=[person_boxes])
image_pose_result = pose_results[0] # results for first image
```
### ViTPose++ models
The best [checkpoints](https://huggingface.co/collections/usyd-community/vitpose-677fcfd0a0b2b5c8f79c4335) are those of the [ViTPose++ paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04246). ViTPose++ models employ a so-called [Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)](https://huggingface.co/blog/moe) architecture for the ViT backbone, resulting in better performance.
The ViTPose+ checkpoints use 6 experts, hence 6 different dataset indices can be passed.
An overview of the various dataset indices is provided below:
- 0: [COCO validation 2017](https://cocodataset.org/#overview) dataset, using an object detector that gets 56 AP on the "person" class
- 1: [AiC](https://github.com/fabbrimatteo/AiC-Dataset) dataset
- 2: [MPII](https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/computer-vision-and-machine-learning/software-and-datasets/mpii-human-pose-dataset) dataset
- 3: [AP-10K](https://github.com/AlexTheBad/AP-10K) dataset
- 4: [APT-36K](https://github.com/pandorgan/APT-36K) dataset
- 5: [COCO-WholeBody](https://github.com/jin-s13/COCO-WholeBody) dataset
Pass the `dataset_index` argument in the forward of the model to indicate which experts to use for each example in the batch. Example usage is shown below:
```python
image_processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("usyd-community/vitpose-plus-base")
model = VitPoseForPoseEstimation.from_pretrained("usyd-community/vitpose-plus-base", device=device)
inputs = image_processor(image, boxes=[person_boxes], return_tensors="pt").to(device)
dataset_index = torch.tensor([0], device=device) # must be a tensor of shape (batch_size,)
with torch.no_grad():
outputs = model(**inputs, dataset_index=dataset_index)
```
The ViTPose+ checkpoints use 6 experts, hence 6 different dataset indices can be passed.
An overview of the various dataset indices is provided below:
- 0: [COCO validation 2017](https://cocodataset.org/#overview) dataset, using an object detector that gets 56 AP on the "person" class
- 1: [AiC](https://github.com/fabbrimatteo/AiC-Dataset) dataset
- 2: [MPII](https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/computer-vision-and-machine-learning/software-and-datasets/mpii-human-pose-dataset) dataset
- 3: [AP-10K](https://github.com/AlexTheBad/AP-10K) dataset
- 4: [APT-36K](https://github.com/pandorgan/APT-36K) dataset
- 5: [COCO-WholeBody](https://github.com/jin-s13/COCO-WholeBody) dataset
### Visualization
To visualize the various keypoints, one can either leverage the `supervision` [library](https://github.com/roboflow/supervision (requires `pip install supervision`):
```python
import supervision as sv
xy = torch.stack([pose_result['keypoints'] for pose_result in image_pose_result]).cpu().numpy()
scores = torch.stack([pose_result['scores'] for pose_result in image_pose_result]).cpu().numpy()
key_points = sv.KeyPoints(
xy=xy, confidence=scores
)
edge_annotator = sv.EdgeAnnotator(
color=sv.Color.GREEN,
thickness=1
)
vertex_annotator = sv.VertexAnnotator(
color=sv.Color.RED,
radius=2
)
annotated_frame = edge_annotator.annotate(
scene=image.copy(),
key_points=key_points
)
annotated_frame = vertex_annotator.annotate(
scene=annotated_frame,
key_points=key_points
)
```
Alternatively, one can also visualize the keypoints using [OpenCV](https://opencv.org/) (requires `pip install opencv-python`):
```python
import math
import cv2
def draw_points(image, keypoints, scores, pose_keypoint_color, keypoint_score_threshold, radius, show_keypoint_weight):
if pose_keypoint_color is not None:
assert len(pose_keypoint_color) == len(keypoints)
for kid, (kpt, kpt_score) in enumerate(zip(keypoints, scores)):
x_coord, y_coord = int(kpt[0]), int(kpt[1])
if kpt_score > keypoint_score_threshold:
color = tuple(int(c) for c in pose_keypoint_color[kid])
if show_keypoint_weight:
cv2.circle(image, (int(x_coord), int(y_coord)), radius, color, -1)
transparency = max(0, min(1, kpt_score))
cv2.addWeighted(image, transparency, image, 1 - transparency, 0, dst=image)
else:
cv2.circle(image, (int(x_coord), int(y_coord)), radius, color, -1)
def draw_links(image, keypoints, scores, keypoint_edges, link_colors, keypoint_score_threshold, thickness, show_keypoint_weight, stick_width = 2):
height, width, _ = image.shape
if keypoint_edges is not None and link_colors is not None:
assert len(link_colors) == len(keypoint_edges)
for sk_id, sk in enumerate(keypoint_edges):
x1, y1, score1 = (int(keypoints[sk[0], 0]), int(keypoints[sk[0], 1]), scores[sk[0]])
x2, y2, score2 = (int(keypoints[sk[1], 0]), int(keypoints[sk[1], 1]), scores[sk[1]])
if (
x1 > 0
and x1 < width
and y1 > 0
and y1 < height
and x2 > 0
and x2 < width
and y2 > 0
and y2 < height
and score1 > keypoint_score_threshold
and score2 > keypoint_score_threshold
):
color = tuple(int(c) for c in link_colors[sk_id])
if show_keypoint_weight:
X = (x1, x2)
Y = (y1, y2)
mean_x = np.mean(X)
mean_y = np.mean(Y)
length = ((Y[0] - Y[1]) ** 2 + (X[0] - X[1]) ** 2) ** 0.5
angle = math.degrees(math.atan2(Y[0] - Y[1], X[0] - X[1]))
polygon = cv2.ellipse2Poly(
(int(mean_x), int(mean_y)), (int(length / 2), int(stick_width)), int(angle), 0, 360, 1
)
cv2.fillConvexPoly(image, polygon, color)
transparency = max(0, min(1, 0.5 * (keypoints[sk[0], 2] + keypoints[sk[1], 2])))
cv2.addWeighted(image, transparency, image, 1 - transparency, 0, dst=image)
else:
cv2.line(image, (x1, y1), (x2, y2), color, thickness=thickness)
# Note: keypoint_edges and color palette are dataset-specific
keypoint_edges = model.config.edges
palette = np.array(
[
[255, 128, 0],
[255, 153, 51],
[255, 178, 102],
[230, 230, 0],
[255, 153, 255],
[153, 204, 255],
[255, 102, 255],
[255, 51, 255],
[102, 178, 255],
[51, 153, 255],
[255, 153, 153],
[255, 102, 102],
[255, 51, 51],
[153, 255, 153],
[102, 255, 102],
[51, 255, 51],
[0, 255, 0],
[0, 0, 255],
[255, 0, 0],
[255, 255, 255],
]
)
link_colors = palette[[0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16]]
keypoint_colors = palette[[16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]
numpy_image = np.array(image)
for pose_result in image_pose_result:
scores = np.array(pose_result["scores"])
keypoints = np.array(pose_result["keypoints"])
# draw each point on image
draw_points(numpy_image, keypoints, scores, keypoint_colors, keypoint_score_threshold=0.3, radius=4, show_keypoint_weight=False)
# draw links
draw_links(numpy_image, keypoints, scores, keypoint_edges, link_colors, keypoint_score_threshold=0.3, thickness=1, show_keypoint_weight=False)
pose_image = Image.fromarray(numpy_image)
pose_image
```
## Resources
A list of official Hugging Face and community (indicated by 🌎) resources to help you get started with ViTPose. If you're interested in submitting a resource to be included here, please feel free to open a Pull Request and we'll review it! The resource should ideally demonstrate something new instead of duplicating an existing resource.
- A demo of ViTPose on images and video can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/spaces/hysts/ViTPose-transformers).
- A notebook illustrating inference and visualization can be found [here](https://github.com/NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials/blob/master/ViTPose/Inference_with_ViTPose_for_human_pose_estimation.ipynb).
## VitPoseImageProcessor
[[autodoc]] VitPoseImageProcessor
- preprocess
- post_process_pose_estimation
## VitPoseConfig
[[autodoc]] VitPoseConfig
## VitPoseForPoseEstimation
[[autodoc]] VitPoseForPoseEstimation
- forward