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Best Pose Estimation Models

6 Nov 2025 • 14 min read

Best Pose Estimation Models

Pose estimation is transforming how we understand human movement, powering everything from fitness tracking and sports analytics to healthcare rehabilitation. This guide explores the best pose estimation models, and shows how to deploy them efficiently across mobile, edge, and cloud environments.

Detect NBA 3 Second Violations with AI

22 Jul 2025 • 7 min read

Detect NBA 3 Second Violations with AI

Introduction Ever shouted at the screen that a player was camping in the paint? You're not alone. Basketball is a fast paced and dynamic sport, with many rules that apply per player making it difficult for a referee to monitor everything. The 3-second rule in basketball, which prevents

How to Display Keypoint Detections with Python

3 Sep 2024 • 3 min read

How to Display Keypoint Detections with Python

Learn how to plot detections from popular keypoint detection models (i.e. MediaPipe) in Python.

How to Create a Workout Pose Correction Tool

14 Aug 2024 • 6 min read

How to Create a Workout Pose Correction Tool

0:00 /0:21 1× Introduction Computer vision is a useful tool when it comes to understanding and quantifying real-world activity happening in real-time. Tracking human movements with pose estimation is a common way to evaluate athletics or general body movement to help gain insight into proper form and technique.

Camera Calibration in Sports with Keypoints

8 Aug 2024 • 7 min read

Camera Calibration in Sports with Keypoints

Camera calibration is important to accurate vision AI systems that analyse sports. It allows the mapping of their movement on a video frame to real movement on the field, and thus the tracking of the distance they cover, the direction, and the speed at which they move. Homography is commonly

automatic bottle orienter

10 Apr 2024 • 10 min read

Automatic Bottle Orienter with Computer Vision

Learn how to estimate the orientation of a water bottle using computer vision.

What is MediaPipe? A Guide for Beginners

10 Apr 2024 • 6 min read

What is MediaPipe? A Guide for Beginners

In this article, we discuss what MediaPipe is, what you can do with MediaPipe, and how to use MediaPipe in Python.

What is OpenPose? A Guide for Beginners.

3 Apr 2024 • 9 min read

What is OpenPose? A Guide for Beginners.

In this guide, we discuss what OpenPose is, what you can do with the model, and how you can use OpenPose.

How to Train a Custom YOLOv8 Pose Estimation Model

10 Jan 2024 • 8 min read

How to Train a Custom YOLOv8 Pose Estimation Model

In this guide, we walk through how to train a custom YOLOv8 pose estimation model with your own dataset.

Launch: Label, Train, Deploy Support for Keypoint Detection Models in Roboflow

5 Jan 2024 • 6 min read

Launch: Label, Train, Deploy Support for Keypoint Detection Models in Roboflow

Learn how to label data for and train keypoint detection models using Roboflow.

What is Keypoint Detection?

31 Oct 2023 • 6 min read

What is Keypoint Detection?

In this guide, we discuss what keypoint detection is, common architectures used for keypoint detection, and the high-level steps to build a keypoint detection model.

Pose Estimation Algorithms: History and Evolution

19 Jul 2023 • 9 min read

Pose Estimation Algorithms: History and Evolution

This article was contributed to the Roboflow blog by Abirami Vina. What is Pose Estimation? Pose estimation, also called keypoint detection, is a computer vision technique that pinpoints the key body joints of a human in images and videos to understand their pose. While pose estimation can also be applied

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