Pose Estimation Python Packages

ultralytics

Ultralytics YOLO27, YOLO26, YOLO11, YOLOv8 — object detection, instance segmentation, semantic segmentation, image classification, pose estimation, object tracking

norfair

Lightweight Python library for adding real-time multi-object tracking to any detector.

rtmlib

RTMPose series (RTMPose, DWPose, RTMO, RTMW) without mmcv, mmpose, mmdet etc.

gluoncv

Gluon CV Toolkit

ultralytics-opencv-headless

Ultralytics YOLO27, YOLO26, YOLO11, YOLOv8 — object detection, instance segmentation, semantic segmentation, image classification, pose estimation, object tracking

mmpose

OpenMMLab Pose Estimation Toolbox and Benchmark.

pypose

A library for differentiable robotics on manifolds.

deeplabcut

Official implementation of DeepLabCut: Markerless pose estimation of user-defined features with deep learning for all animals incl. humans

py-soma-x

SOMA: Unifying Parametric Human Body Models

libreyolo

LibreYOLO is a MIT licensed open source computer vision library

openpifpaf

Official implementation of "OpenPifPaf: Composite Fields for Semantic Keypoint Detection and Spatio-Temporal Association" in PyTorch.

rapidtag

Fast, pure-Rust ArUco/AprilTag fiducial marker detection — no OpenCV runtime, 1.6–3.4× faster, pixel-identical accuracy

stag-python

Python Package for STag - A Stable, Occlusion-Resistant Fiducial Marker System

x-anylabeling-cvhub

X-AnyLabeling: A lightweight, efficient, and unified cross-platform desktop application for annotating text, image, video, and multimodal data, combining versatile built-in tools with state-of-the-art AI models and flexible multi-format export.

napari-deeplabcut

a napari plugin for labeling and refining keypoint data within DeepLabCut projects

blenderproc

A procedural Blender pipeline for photorealistic training image generation

pose2sim

Markerless kinematics with any cameras — From 2D Pose estimation to 3D OpenSim motion

sleap

A deep learning framework for multi-animal pose tracking.

poseaudit

Audit how far off the angles, tilts and lengths a pose model measures are

reshot

ReShot — copy the shot, not the actors. Video → depth map, OpenPose skeleton or canny lines for Seedance 2.0/2.5 reference video, MiniMax H3 Fun ControlNet and Wan VACE. Apache-2.0. Open-sourced by Maosika 猫斯卡 (www.maosika.com), the AI short-drama production system.

sports2d

Compute 2D human pose and angles from a video or a webcam.

wifi-densepose

π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.

yolozu

ToppyMicroServices commercial product, provided free of charge, for validating and fairly evaluating existing vision predictions through a stable predictions interface contract.

ovkit

One line of Python for 20 AI capabilities on Intel CPU/GPU/NPU — detection, OCR, text-to-speech, pose. Offline, Apache-2.0, no AGPL.