ViTPose: Simple Vision Transformer Baselines for Human Pose Estimation

Results | Updates | Usage | Todo | Acknowledge

This branch contains the pytorch implementation of ViTPose: Simple Vision Transformer Baselines for Human Pose Estimation. It obtains 81.1 AP on MS COCO Keypoint test-dev set.

Results from this repo on MS COCO val set (single-task training)

Using detection results from a detector that obtains 56 mAP on person. The configs here are for both training and test.

With classic decoder

With simple decoder

Results from this repo on MS COCO val set (multi-task training)

Using detection results from a detector that obtains 56 mAP on person. Note the configs here are only for evaluation.

Results from this repo on OCHuman test set (multi-task training)

Using groundtruth bounding boxes. Note the configs here are only for evaluation.

Results from this repo on CrowdPose test set (multi-task training)

Using YOLOv3 human detector. Note the configs here are only for evaluation.

Results from this repo on MPII val set (multi-task training)

Using groundtruth bounding boxes. Note the configs here are only for evaluation. The metric is PCKh.

Results from this repo on AI Challenger test set (multi-task training)

Using groundtruth bounding boxes. Note the configs here are only for evaluation.

Updates

[2022-05-24] Upload the single-task training code, single-task pre-trained models, and multi-task pretrained models.

[2022-05-06] Upload the logs for the base, large, and huge models!

[2022-04-27] Our ViTPose with ViTAE-G obtains 81.1 AP on COCO test-dev set!

Applications of ViTAE Transformer include: image classification | object detection | semantic segmentation | animal pose segmentation | remote sensing | matting | VSA | ViTDet

Usage

We use PyTorch 1.9.0 or NGC docker 21.06, and mmcv 1.3.9 for the experiments.

git clone https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmcv.git
cd mmcv
git checkout v1.3.9
MMCV_WITH_OPS=1 pip install -e .
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/ViTAE-Transformer/ViTPose.git
cd ViTPose
pip install -v -e .

After install the two repos, install timm and einops, i.e.,

pip install timm==0.4.9 einops

Download the pretrained models from MAE or ViTAE, and then conduct the experiments by

# for single machine
bash tools/dist_train.sh <Config PATH> <NUM GPUs> --cfg-options model.pretrained=<Pretrained PATH> --seed 0

# for multiple machines
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nnodes <Num Machines> --node_rank <Rank of Machine> --nproc_per_node <GPUs Per Machine> --master_addr <Master Addr> --master_port <Master Port> tools/train.py <Config PATH> --cfg-options model.pretrained=<Pretrained PATH> --launcher pytorch --seed 0

To test the pretrained models performance, please run

bash tools/dist_test.sh <Config PATH> <Checkpoint PATH> <NUM GPUs>

Todo

This repo current contains modifications including:

• Upload configs and pretrained models

• More models with SOTA results

• Upload multi-task training config

Acknowledge

We acknowledge the excellent implementation from mmpose and MAE.

Citing ViTPose

@misc{xu2022vitpose,
      title={ViTPose: Simple Vision Transformer Baselines for Human Pose Estimation}, 
      author={Yufei Xu and Jing Zhang and Qiming Zhang and Dacheng Tao},
      year={2022},
      eprint={2204.12484},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

For ViTAE and ViTAEv2, please refer to:

@article{xu2021vitae,
  title={Vitae: Vision transformer advanced by exploring intrinsic inductive bias},
  author={Xu, Yufei and Zhang, Qiming and Zhang, Jing and Tao, Dacheng},
  journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume={34},
  year={2021}
}

@article{zhang2022vitaev2,
  title={ViTAEv2: Vision Transformer Advanced by Exploring Inductive Bias for Image Recognition and Beyond},
  author={Zhang, Qiming and Xu, Yufei and Zhang, Jing and Tao, Dacheng},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.10108},
  year={2022}
}

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