Human Body Pose Estimation and Applications

Human Pose Estimation is one of the challenging yet broadly researched areas. Pose estimation is required in applications that include human activity detection, fall detection, motion capture in AR/VR, etc. Nevertheless, images and videos are required for every application that captures images using a standard RGB camera, without any external devices. This paper presents a real-time approach for sign language detection and recognition in videos using the Holistic pose estimation method of MediaPipe. This Holistic framework detects the movements of multiple modalities-facial expression, hand gesture and body pose, which is the best for the sign language recognition model. The experiment conducted includes five different signers, signing ten distinct words in a natural background. Two signs, “blank” and “sad,” were best recognized by the model.