MediaPipe-Pose-Estimation: Optimized for Mobile Deployment

Detect and track human body poses in real-time images and video streams

The MediaPipe Pose Landmark Detector is a machine learning pipeline that predicts bounding boxes and pose skeletons of poses in an image.

This model is an implementation of MediaPipe-Pose-Estimation found here.
This repository provides scripts to run MediaPipe-Pose-Estimation on Qualcomm® devices.
More details on model performance across various devices, can be found
here.

Model Details

• Model Type: Pose estimation
• Model Stats:
  • Input resolution: 256×256
  • Number of parameters (MediaPipePoseDetector): 815K
  • Model size (MediaPipePoseDetector): 3.14 MB
  • Number of parameters (MediaPipePoseLandmarkDetector): 3.37M
  • Model size (MediaPipePoseLandmarkDetector): 12.9 MB

Installation

This model can be installed as a Python package via pip.

pip install "qai-hub-models[mediapipe_pose]"

Configure Qualcomm® AI Hub to run this model on a cloud-hosted device

Sign-in to Qualcomm® AI Hub with your
Qualcomm® ID. Once signed in navigate to Account -> Settings -> API Token.

With this API token, you can configure your client to run models on the cloud
hosted devices.

qai-hub configure --api_token API_TOKEN

Navigate to docs for more information.

Demo off target

The package contains a simple end-to-end demo that downloads pre-trained
weights and runs this model on a sample input.

python -m qai_hub_models.models.mediapipe_pose.demo

The above demo runs a reference implementation of pre-processing, model
inference, and post processing.

NOTE: If you want running in a Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab like
environment, please add the following to your cell (instead of the above).

%run -m qai_hub_models.models.mediapipe_pose.demo

Run model on a cloud-hosted device

In addition to the demo, you can also run the model on a cloud-hosted Qualcomm®
device. This script does the following:

• Performance check on-device on a cloud-hosted device
• Downloads compiled assets that can be deployed on-device for Android.
• Accuracy check between PyTorch and on-device outputs.

python -m qai_hub_models.models.mediapipe_pose.export

Profile Job summary of MediaPipePoseDetector
--------------------------------------------------
Device: Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (13)
Estimated Inference Time: 0.81 ms
Estimated Peak Memory Range: 0.03-1.57 MB
Compute Units: NPU (106) | Total (106)

Profile Job summary of MediaPipePoseLandmarkDetector
--------------------------------------------------
Device: Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (13)
Estimated Inference Time: 1.02 ms
Estimated Peak Memory Range: 0.01-3.10 MB
Compute Units: NPU (229) | Total (229)

Profile Job summary of MediaPipePoseDetector
--------------------------------------------------
Device: Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (13)
Estimated Inference Time: 0.86 ms
Estimated Peak Memory Range: 0.20-63.21 MB
Compute Units: NPU (139) | Total (139)

Profile Job summary of MediaPipePoseLandmarkDetector
--------------------------------------------------
Device: Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (13)
Estimated Inference Time: 1.10 ms
Estimated Peak Memory Range: 0.02-142.47 MB
Compute Units: NPU (305) | Total (305)

How does this work?

This export script
leverages Qualcomm® AI Hub to optimize, validate, and deploy this model
on-device. Lets go through each step below in detail:

Step 1: Compile model for on-device deployment

To compile a PyTorch model for on-device deployment, we first trace the model
in memory using the jit.trace and then call the submit_compile_job API.

import torch

import qai_hub as hub
from qai_hub_models.models.mediapipe_pose import Model

# Load the model
torch_model = Model.from_pretrained()
torch_model.eval()

# Device
device = hub.Device("Samsung Galaxy S23")

# Trace model
input_shape = torch_model.get_input_spec()
sample_inputs = torch_model.sample_inputs()

pt_model = torch.jit.trace(torch_model, [torch.tensor(data[0]) for _, data in sample_inputs.items()])

# Compile model on a specific device
compile_job = hub.submit_compile_job(
    model=pt_model,
    device=device,
    input_specs=torch_model.get_input_spec(),
)

# Get target model to run on-device
target_model = compile_job.get_target_model()

Step 2: Performance profiling on cloud-hosted device

After compiling models from step 1. Models can be profiled model on-device using the
target_model. Note that this scripts runs the model on a device automatically
provisioned in the cloud. Once the job is submitted, you can navigate to a
provided job URL to view a variety of on-device performance metrics.

profile_job = hub.submit_profile_job(
    model=target_model,
    device=device,
)

Step 3: Verify on-device accuracy

To verify the accuracy of the model on-device, you can run on-device inference
on sample input data on the same cloud hosted device.

input_data = torch_model.sample_inputs()
inference_job = hub.submit_inference_job(
    model=target_model,
    device=device,
    inputs=input_data,
)

on_device_output = inference_job.download_output_data()

With the output of the model, you can compute like PSNR, relative errors or
spot check the output with expected output.

Note: This on-device profiling and inference requires access to Qualcomm®
AI Hub. Sign up for access.

Deploying compiled model to Android

The models can be deployed using multiple runtimes:

• TensorFlow Lite (.tflite export): This
  tutorial provides a
  guide to deploy the .tflite model in an Android application.

• QNN (.so export ): This sample
  app
  provides instructions on how to use the .so shared library in an Android application.

View on Qualcomm® AI Hub

Get more details on MediaPipe-Pose-Estimation’s performance across various devices here.
Explore all available models on Qualcomm® AI Hub

License

• The license for the original implementation of MediaPipe-Pose-Estimation can be found
  here.
• The license for the compiled assets for on-device deployment can be found here.

References

• BlazePose: On-device Real-time Body Pose tracking
• Source Model Implementation

Community

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• For questions or feedback please reach out to us.