Using Hourglass Networks To Understand Human Poses

A simple and digestible deep dive into the theory behind Hourglass Networks for human pose estimation

Nushaine Ferdinand
Towards Data Science
8 min readMay 30, 2020

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Human Pose Estimation (source)

A man is running at you with a knife. What do you do? Well, most people will only have one thought in mind: RUN. Well, why would you run? Because after observing this man’s aggressive posture, you can conclude…

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