| Sapiens: Foundation for Human Vision Models | ✓ Link | 74.4 | 79.2 | 84.1 | 91.2 | 70.4 | Sapiens-2B | 2024-08-22 |
| SDPose: Exploiting Diffusion Priors for Out-of-Domain and Robust Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 72.8 | 78.6 | 82.3 | 89.7 | 67.3 | SDPose | 2025-09-29 |
| Sapiens: Foundation for Human Vision Models | ✓ Link | 72.7 | 77.4 | 83.0 | 90.7 | 69.2 | Sapiens-1B | 2024-08-22 |
| RTMW: Real-Time Multi-Person 2D and 3D Whole-body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 70.2 | 76.3 | 79.6 | 88.4 | 66.4 | RTMW-x | 2024-07-11 |
| DAREPose: Causally Inspired Risk-Adaptive Correction for Robust Whole-Body Pose Estimation | | 69.7 | 82.6 | 74.0 | 91.7 | 70.8 | DAREPose-x | 2026-08-26 |
| Sapiens: Foundation for Human Vision Models | ✓ Link | 69.5 | 74.3 | 79.4 | 89.5 | 65.4 | Sapiens-0.6B | 2024-08-22 |
| DAREPose: Causally Inspired Risk-Adaptive Correction for Robust Whole-Body Pose Estimation | | 69.4 | 76.5 | 74.6 | 92.3 | 67.4 | DAREPose-l | 2026-08-26 |
| Full-BAPose: Bottom Up Framework for Full Body Pose Estimation | | 68.4 | 74.4 | 76.4 | 86.8 | 64.6 | Full-BAPose (HRNet-W48) | 2023-04-04 |
| CIGPose: Causal Intervention Graph Neural Network for Whole-Body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 67.5 | 73.5 | 70.3 | 88.4 | 62.6 | CIGPose-x + UBody | 2026-03-10 |
| CIGPose: Causal Intervention Graph Neural Network for Whole-Body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 67.0 | 73.5 | 72.3 | 88.1 | 60.2 | CIGPose-x | 2026-03-10 |
| CIGPose: Causal Intervention Graph Neural Network for Whole-Body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 66.9 | 73.1 | 72.3 | 88.0 | 61.2 | CIGPose-l + UBody | 2026-03-10 |
| Spatial-Aware Regression for Keypoint Localization | ✓ Link | 66.6 | 71.2 | 69.3 | 90.3 | 61.3 | SAR (HRNet-W48) | 2024-06-16 |
| Effective Whole-body Pose Estimation with Two-stages Distillation | ✓ Link | 66.5 | 72.2 | 70.4 | 88.7 | 62.1 | DWPose-l | 2023-07-29 |
| PCNet: a human pose compensation network based on incremental learning for sports actions estimation | | 66.4 | 76.9 | 65.3 | 89.7 | 65.6 | PCNet | 2024-11-11 |
| CIGPose: Causal Intervention Graph Neural Network for Whole-Body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 66.3 | 73.0 | 72.0 | 88.3 | 59.8 | CIGPose-l | 2026-03-10 |
| ZoomNAS: Searching for Whole-body Human Pose Estimation in the Wild | ✓ Link | 65.4 | 74.0 | 61.7 | 88.9 | 62.5 | ZoomNAS (V1.0 data) | 2022-08-23 |
| Effective Whole-body Pose Estimation with Two-stages Distillation | ✓ Link | 65.4 | 71.0 | 68.6 | 88.5 | 60.6 | RTMPose-l + UBody | 2023-07-29 |
| RTMPose: Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation based on MMPose | ✓ Link | 65.3 | 71.4 | 69.2 | 88.9 | 59.0 | RTMPose-x | 2023-03-13 |
| TCFormer: Visual Recognition via Token Clustering Transformer | ✓ Link | 65.1 | 72.7 | 74.6 | 78.8 | 62.6 | TCFormerV2-Base | 2024-07-16 |
| RTMPose: Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation based on MMPose | ✓ Link | 64.8 | 71.2 | 69.3 | 88.2 | 57.9 | RTMPose-l | 2023-03-13 |
| Not All Tokens Are Equal: Human-centric Visual Analysis via Token Clustering Transformer | ✓ Link | 64.2 | 71.8 | 74.4 | 79.0 | 61.4 | TCFormer | 2022-04-19 |
| DAREPose: Causally Inspired Risk-Adaptive Correction for Robust Whole-Body Pose Estimation | | 63.4 | 77.5 | 68.5 | 83.6 | 62.0 | DAREPose-l (256x192) | 2026-08-26 |
| Effective Whole-body Pose Estimation with Two-stages Distillation | ✓ Link | 63.1 | 70.4 | 66.2 | 84.3 | 56.6 | DWPose-l (256x192) | 2023-07-29 |
| ZoomNAS: Searching for Whole-body Human Pose Estimation in the Wild | ✓ Link | 63.0 | 74.5 | 60.9 | 88.0 | 57.9 | ZoomNet (V1.0 data) | 2022-08-23 |
| CIGPose: Causal Intervention Graph Neural Network for Whole-Body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 62.6 | 71.2 | 69.0 | 83.3 | 54.0 | CIGPose-l (256x192) | 2026-03-10 |
| Effective Whole-body Pose Estimation with Two-stages Distillation | ✓ Link | 62.1 | 69.7 | 65.5 | 84.1 | 55.1 | RTMPose-l + UBody (256x192) | 2023-07-29 |
| Sapiens: Foundation for Human Vision Models | ✓ Link | 62.0 | 66.4 | 67.3 | 87.1 | 58.1 | Sapiens-0.3B | 2024-08-22 |
| DAREPose: Causally Inspired Risk-Adaptive Correction for Robust Whole-Body Pose Estimation | | 61.8 | 76.4 | 65.2 | 83.5 | 58.3 | DAREPose-m | 2026-08-26 |
| GTPT: Group-based Token Pruning Transformer for Efficient Human Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 61.7 | 72.0 | 73.0 | 84.2 | 47.9 | GTPT-B | 2024-07-15 |
| Keypoint-wise Adaptive Loss for Whole-Body Human Pose Estimation | | 61.6 | 72.7 | 74.2 | 73.8 | 53.5 | HRNet-w32+DARK+FoWKAL | 2023-02-13 |
| ViTPose++: Vision Transformer for Generic Body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 61.2 | 75.9 | 77.9 | 63.3 | 54.7 | ViTPose+-H | 2022-12-07 |
| RTMPose: Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation based on MMPose | ✓ Link | 61.1 | 69.5 | 65.8 | 83.3 | 51.9 | RTMPose-l (256x192) | 2023-03-13 |
| ViTPose++: Vision Transformer for Generic Body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 60.6 | 75.3 | 77.1 | 63.0 | 54.2 | ViTPose+-L | 2022-12-07 |
| Effective Whole-body Pose Estimation with Two-stages Distillation | ✓ Link | 60.6 | 68.5 | 63.6 | 82.8 | 52.7 | DWPose-m | 2023-07-29 |
| Keypoint Communities | ✓ Link | 60.4 | 69.6 | 63.4 | 85.0 | 52.9 | Zauss et al. | 2021-10-03 |
| CIGPose: Causal Intervention Graph Neural Network for Whole-Body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 59.9 | 69.0 | 64.3 | 82.1 | 49.7 | CIGPose-m | 2026-03-10 |
| AlphaPose: Whole-Body Regional Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Tracking in Real-Time | ✓ Link | 59.2 | 70.6 | 70.2 | 77.5 | 45.7 | FastPose50-dcn-si (V1.0 data) | 2022-11-07 |
| Pyramid Vision Transformer: A Versatile Backbone for Dense Prediction without Convolutions | ✓ Link | 58.9 | 67.3 | 66.0 | 74.5 | 54.5 | PVT | 2021-02-24 |
| Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 58.6 | 70.1 | 58.6 | 72.7 | 51.6 | HRNet-w32 (V1.0 data) | 2019-02-25 |
| RTMPose: Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation based on MMPose | ✓ Link | 58.2 | 67.3 | 61.5 | 81.3 | 47.5 | RTMPose-m | 2023-03-13 |
| RTMW: Real-Time Multi-Person 2D and 3D Whole-body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 58 | 67.6 | 67.1 | 78.3 | 49.1 | RTMW-m | 2024-07-11 |
| PoseBH: Prototypical Multi-Dataset Training Beyond Human Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 57.9 | | | | | PoseBH (ViT-B) | 2025-05-23 |
| AlphaPose: Whole-Body Regional Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Tracking in Real-Time | ✓ Link | 57.7 | 69.3 | 69.0 | 75.9 | 45.3 | FastPose50-dcn-si (V0.5 data) | 2022-11-07 |
| Simple Baselines for Human Pose Estimation and Tracking | ✓ Link | 57.3 | 66.6 | 63.5 | 73.2 | 53.7 | SimpleBaseline | 2018-04-17 |
| Semantic-Structural Graph Convolutional Networks for Whole-Body Human Pose Estimation | | 55.0 | 73.8 | 80.7 | 75.9 | 52.5 | SSGCN (HRNet-w32) | 2022-02-25 |
| Whole-Body Human Pose Estimation in the Wild | ✓ Link | 54.1 | 74.3 | 79.8 | 62.3 | 40.1 | ZoomNet (V0.5 data) | 2020-07-23 |
| OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields | ✓ Link | 44.2 | 56.3 | 53.2 | 76.5 | 38.6 | OpenPose (V1.0 data) | 2018-12-18 |
| Associative Embedding: End-to-End Learning for Joint Detection and Grouping | ✓ Link | 44.0 | 58.0 | 57.7 | 58.8 | 48.1 | AE (V1.0 data) | 2016-11-16 |
| Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 43.2 | 65.9 | 31.4 | 52.3 | 30.0 | HRNet (V0.5 data) | 2019-02-25 |
| HPRNet: Hierarchical Point Regression for Whole-Body Human Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 34.8 | 59.4 | 53.0 | 75.4 | 50.4 | HPRNet | 2021-06-08 |
| Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields | ✓ Link | 33.8 | 56.3 | 53.2 | 48.2 | 19.8 | OpenPose (V0.5 data) | 2016-11-24 |
| DeepPose: Human Pose Estimation via Deep Neural Networks | ✓ Link | 33.5 | 44.4 | 36.8 | 49.3 | 23.5 | DeepPose | 2013-12-17 |
| Single-Network Whole-Body Pose Estimation | ✓ Link | 32.7 | 42.7 | 9.9 | 64.9 | 40.8 | SN | 2019-09-30 |
| Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields | ✓ Link | 29.5 | 38.1 | 5.3 | 65.6 | 35.9 | PAF | 2016-11-24 |
| Associative Embedding: End-to-End Learning for Joint Detection and Grouping | ✓ Link | 27.4 | 40.5 | 7.7 | 47.7 | 34.1 | AE (V0.5 data) | 2016-11-16 |