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OpenPose: Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body estimation (github.com/cmu-perceptual-computing-lab)
98 points by Memosyne on May 9, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments




Funny is ONE way of describing Noncommercial internal research use only at a single site. You may not distribute this or any of your modifications to others.

The blurb at the bottom of the readme that says "may be redistributed under these conditions" is a blatant 99% lie, because there's almost no possible way that redistributing the code to others could be for your own noncommercial internal research use at a single site within your organization.


For non-exclusive commercial use they require a non-refundable ANNUAL fee of $25K USD.


I was considering open pose for a project until I reviewed the license.

And by the way, why doesn't github make the license available in Mobile mode? It's the first thing I look at when considering an ostensibly open source project


To be fair, Github doesn't make much available on mobile. Not even a full readme. It's a shame their mobile website is so useless.


Also banned if you use it in sports. Very odd


In case you are looking for Pose estimation network with “normal” license https://github.com/vita-epfl/openpifpaf


Wow, the output is amazingly stable. I often wonder how much better these amazing single-perspective single-frame methods could be if extended with multiple perspectives, and continuous information (especially alternating-perspective continuous), and it seems like the answer is "now you can find out!". :+ )

P.S. it is so lovely that there is an OpenCL backend as well. So many of these great methods only have CUDA available.



How does the latest version compare with VideoPose3d (https://github.com/facebookresearch/VideoPose3D)?


Alternative to consider, not open source, but then again neither is OpenPose with their absurd license and restrictions:

https://wrnch.ai/faq/


This is one of those technologies that will on balance be used for evil (despite some doubtlessly positive uses), isn't it?




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