Google gives apps simultaneous on-device face, hand and pose prediction

From sign language to sports training to AR effects, tracking the human body unlocks some amazing possibilities, and my Google Research teammates are delivering great new tools:

We are excited to announce MediaPipe Holistic, […] a new pipeline with optimized poseface and hand components that each run in real-time, with minimum memory transfer between their inference backends, and added support for interchangeability of the three components, depending on the quality/speed tradeoffs.

When including all three components, MediaPipe Holistic provides a unified topology for a groundbreaking 540+ keypoints (33 pose, 21 per-hand and 468 facial landmarks) and achieves near real-time performance on mobile devices. MediaPipe Holistic is being released as part of MediaPipe and is available on-device for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop. We are also introducing MediaPipe’s new ready-to-use APIs for research (Python) and web (JavaScript) to ease access to the technology.

Check out the rest of the post for details, and let us know what you create!

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