diffpose-video 0.2.1

3D human pose estimation from video using DiffPose + MixSTE

DiffPose-Video

3D human pose estimation from arbitrary video using MixSTE (2D→3D lifting) and DiffPose (diffusion-based refinement).

This package wraps the original DiffPose research code with a clean inference pipeline, an interactive visualisation dashboard, and a video renderer — all accessible as CLI commands after a single pip install.

Paper: DiffPose: Toward More Reliable 3D Pose Estimation, CVPR 2023.

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Install

# 1. Install PyTorch for your CUDA version first (example: CUDA 12.8)
pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128

# 2. Install this package
pip install diffpose-video

Note: onnxruntime-gpu==1.20.1 is pinned because later versions have a broken CUDA provider on some systems.

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Download pretrained checkpoints

diffpose-download

Downloads all pretrained weights to ~/.cache/diffpose_video/checkpoints/. Safe to re-run — skips files that already exist.

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Usage

1. Run inference on a video

diffpose-infer --input video.mp4 --output_dir results/

Config and checkpoint paths default to the bundled config and ~/.cache/diffpose_video/checkpoints/ (populated by diffpose-download). Override with --config, --model_pose, --model_diff if needed.

Output: results/<video_name>.npz containing:

• poses_3d — (T, 17, 3) root-relative 3D joint positions
• keypoints_2d — (T, 17, 3) pixel-space 2D detections + confidence

Process a whole folder of videos by passing a directory to --input.

2. Interactive dashboard

diffpose-explore \
  --npz   results/video.npz \
  --video video.mp4 \
  --fps   30

Opens a Plotly Dash app at http://localhost:8050 with:

• Synchronized video playback with 2D skeleton overlay
• Animated 3D skeleton
• X / Y / Z trajectory graphs per joint
• Play/pause + frame scrubber, all linked

3. Render a side-by-side MP4

diffpose-visualise \
  --npz    results/video.npz \
  --video  video.mp4 \
  --output results/video_vis.mp4

Produces a video with the original footage (+ 2D overlay) on the left and the animated 3D skeleton on the right.

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Docker

The image is self-contained — checkpoints and config are baked in at build time.

# Build once
docker compose build

# Inference (outputs land in ./results/)
export VIDEOS_DIR=/path/to/your/videos
docker compose run infer --input /videos/clip.mp4

# Render side-by-side MP4
docker compose run visualise \
  --npz /results/clip.npz --video /videos/clip.mp4 --output /results/clip_vis.mp4

# Interactive dashboard — open http://localhost:8050
docker compose run --service-ports explore \
  --npz /results/clip.npz --video /videos/clip.mp4

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Citation

@InProceedings{gong2023diffpose,
    author    = {Gong, Jia and Foo, Lin Geng and Fan, Zhipeng and Ke, Qiuhong and Rahmani, Hossein and Liu, Jun},
    title     = {DiffPose: Toward More Reliable 3D Pose Estimation},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2023},
}