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Matthew Rever
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Matthew Rever

Matthew Rever received his PhD. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His career revolves around image processing, computer vision, and machine learning for scientific research applications. He started programming in C++, a language he still uses today, over 20 years ago, and has also used Matlab and most heavily Python in the past few years, using OpenCV, SciPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. He believes it is important to stay up to date on the latest tools to be as productive as possible. Dr. Rever is the author of Packt's Computer Vision Projects with Python 3 and Advanced Computer Vision Projects.
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Pose estimation using DeeperCut and ArtTrack

Human pose estimation is the process of estimating the configuration of the body (pose) from an image or video. It includes landmarks (points), which are similar to joints such as the feet, ankles, chin, shoulder, elbows, hands, head, and so on. We will be doing this automatically using deep learning. If you consider a face, the landmarks are relatively rigid or, rather, relatively constant from face to face, such as the relative position of the eyes to the nose, the mouth to the chin, and so forth.

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Although the body structure remains the same, our bodies aren't rigid. So, we need to detect the different parts of our body relative to the other parts. For example, detecting the feet relative to the knee is very challenging compared to facial detection. Also, we can move our hands and feet...

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Matthew Rever

Matthew Rever received his PhD. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His career revolves around image processing, computer vision, and machine learning for scientific research applications. He started programming in C++, a language he still uses today, over 20 years ago, and has also used Matlab and most heavily Python in the past few years, using OpenCV, SciPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. He believes it is important to stay up to date on the latest tools to be as productive as possible. Dr. Rever is the author of Packt's Computer Vision Projects with Python 3 and Advanced Computer Vision Projects.
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