Mmpose

**New Features**

- Support 4 light-weight pose estimation algorithms: [SimCC](https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2107.03332) (ECCV'2022), [Debias-IPR](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2021/papers/Gu_Removing_the_Bias_of_Integral_Pose_Regression_ICCV_2021_paper.pdf) (ICCV'2021), [IPR](https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08229) (ECCV'2018), and [DSNT](https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07372v2) (ArXiv'2018) ([#1628](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1628)) Tau-J

**Migrations**

- Add Webcam API in MMPose 1.0 ([1638](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1638), [#1662](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1662)) Ben-Louis
- Add codec for Associative Embedding (beta) ([1603](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1603)) ly015

**Improvements**

- Add a colab tutorial for MMPose 1.0 ([1660](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1660)) Tau-J
- Add model index in config folder ([1710](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1710), [#1709](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1709), [#1627](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1627)) ly015, Tau-J, Ben-Louis
- Update and improve documentation ([1692](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1692), [#1656](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1656), [#1681](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1681), [#1677](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1677), [#1664](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1664), [#1659](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1659)) Tau-J, Ben-Louis, liqikai9
- Improve config structures and formats ([1651](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1651)) liqikai9

**Bug Fixes**

- Update mmengine version requirements ([1715](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1715)) Ben-Louis
- Update dependencies of pre-commit hooks ([1705](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1705)) Ben-Louis
- Fix mmcv version in DockerFile ([1704](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1704))
- Fix a bug in setting dataset metainfo in configs ([1684](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1684)) ly015
- Fix a bug in UDP training ([1682](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1682)) liqikai9
- Fix a bug in Dark decoding ([1676](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1676)) liqikai9
- Fix bugs in visualization ([1671](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1671), [#1668](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1668), [#1657](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1657)) liqikai9, Ben-Louis
- Fix incorrect flops calculation ([1669](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1669)) liqikai9
- Fix `tensor.tile` compatibility issue for pytorch 1.6 ([1658](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1658)) ly015
- Fix compatibility with `MultilevelPixelData` ([1647](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1647)) liqikai9

We are excited to announce the release of MMPose 1.0.0beta.
MMPose 1.0.0beta is the first version of MMPose 1.x, a part of the OpenMMLab 2.0 projects.
Built upon the new [training engine](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmengine).

**Highlights**

- **New engines**. MMPose 1.x is based on [MMEngine](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmengine), which provides a general and powerful runner that allows more flexible customizations and significantly simplifies the entrypoints of high-level interfaces.

- **Unified interfaces**. As a part of the OpenMMLab 2.0 projects, MMPose 1.x unifies and refactors the interfaces and internal logics of train, testing, datasets, models, evaluation, and visualization. All the OpenMMLab 2.0 projects share the same design in those interfaces and logics to allow the emergence of multi-task/modality algorithms.

- **More documentation and tutorials**. We add a bunch of documentation and tutorials to help users get started more smoothly. Read it [here](https://mmpose.readthedocs.io/en/1.x/).

**Breaking Changes**

In this release, we made lots of major refactoring and modifications. Please refer to the [migration guide](https://mmpose.readthedocs.io/en/1.x/migration.html) for details and migration instructions.

**Highlights**

- Support [DEKR](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02300), CVPR'2021 ([#1693](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1693)) JinluZhang1126, jin-s13, Ben-Louis
- Support [CID](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2022/html/Wang_Contextual_Instance_Decoupling_for_Robust_Multi-Person_Pose_Estimation_CVPR_2022_paper.html), CVPR'2022 ([#1604](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1604)) kennethwdk, jin-s13, Ben-Louis

**Improvements**

- Improve 3D pose estimation demo with viewpoint & height controlling and enriched input formats ([1481](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1481), [#1490](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1490)) pallgeuer, liqikai9
- Improve smoothing of 3D video pose estimation ([1479](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1479)) darcula1993
- Improve dependency management for smoother installation ([1491](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1491)) danielbraun89
- Improve documentation quality ([1680](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1680), [#1525](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1525), [#1516](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1516), [#1513](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1513), [#1511](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1511), [#1507](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1507), [#1506](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1506), [#1525](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1525)) Ben-Louis, Yulv-git, jin-s13

**Bug Fixes**

- Update dependency versions of pre-commit-hooks ([1706](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1706), [#1678](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1678)) Ben-Louis, liqikai9
- Fix missing data transforms in RLE configs ([1632](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1632)) Ben-Louis
- Fix a bug in `fliplr_joints` that causes error when keypoint visibility has float values ([1589](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1589)) walsvid
- Fix hsigmoid default parameters ([1575](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1575)) Ben-Louis
- Fix a bug in UDP decoding ([1565](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1565)) liqikai9
- Fix a bug in pose tracking demo with non-COCO dataset ([1504](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1504)) daixinghome
- Fix typos and unused contents in configs ([1499](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1499), [#1496](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1496)) liqikai9

This release is meant to fix the compatibility with the latest mmcv v1.6.1

**Highlights**

- Support [TCFormer](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2022/html/Zeng_Not_All_Tokens_Are_Equal_Human-Centric_Visual_Analysis_via_Token_CVPR_2022_paper.html) backbone, CVPR'2022 ([#1447](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1447), [#1452](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1452)) zengwang430521
- Add [RLE](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11291) models on COCO dataset ([#1424](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1424)) Indigo6, Ben-Louis, ly015
- Update swin models with better performance ([1467](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1434)) jin-s13

**New Features**

- Support [TCFormer](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2022/html/Zeng_Not_All_Tokens_Are_Equal_Human-Centric_Visual_Analysis_via_Token_CVPR_2022_paper.html) backbone, CVPR'2022 ([#1447](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1447), [#1452](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1452)) zengwang430521
- Add [RLE](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11291) models on COCO dataset ([#1424](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1424)) Indigo6, Ben-Louis, ly015
- Support layer decay optimizer conctructor and learning rate decay optimizer constructor ([1423](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1423)) jin-s13

**Improvements**

- Improve documentation quality ([1416](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1416), [#1421](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1421), [#1423](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1423), [#1426](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1426), [#1458](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1458), [#1463](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1463)) ly015, liqikai9
- Support installation by [mim](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mim) ([#1425](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1425)) liqikai9
- Support PAVI logger ([1434](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1434)) EvelynWang-0423
- Add progress bar for some demos ([1454](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1454)) liqikai9
- Webcam API supports quick device setting in terminal commands ([1466](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1466)) ly015
- Update swin models with better performance ([1467](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1434)) jin-s13

**Bug Fixes**

- Rename `custom_hooks_config` to `custom_hooks` in configs to align with the documentation ([1427](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1427)) ly015
- Fix deadlock issue in Webcam API ([1430](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1430)) ly015
- Fix smoother configs in video 3D demo ([1457](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1457)) ly015

**Highlights**

- Support hand gesture recognition
- Try the [demo](/demo/docs/gesture_recognition_demo.md) for gesture recognition
- Learn more about the [algorithm](/docs/en/papers/algorithms/mtut.md), [dataset](/docs/en/papers/datasets/nvgesture.md) and [experiment results](/configs/hand/gesture_sview_rgbd_vid/mtut/nvgesture/i3d_nvgesture.md)
- Major upgrade to the Webcam API
- Tutorials ([EN](/docs/en/tutorials/7_webcam_api.md)|[zh_CN](/docs/zh_cn/tutorials/7_webcam_api.md))
- [API Reference](https://mmpose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#mmpose-apis-webcam)
- [Demo](/demo/docs/webcam_demo.md)

**New Features**

- Support gesture recognition algorithm [MTUT](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2019/html/Abavisani_Improving_the_Performance_of_Unimodal_Dynamic_Hand-Gesture_Recognition_With_Multimodal_CVPR_2019_paper.html) CVPR'2019 and dataset [NVGesture](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2016/html/Molchanov_Online_Detection_and_CVPR_2016_paper.html) CVPR'2016 ([#1380](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1380)) Ben-Louis

**Improvements**

- Upgrade Webcam API and related documents ([1393](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1393), [#1404](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1404), [#1413](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1413)) ly015
- Support exporting COCO inference result without the annotation file ([1368](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1368)) liqikai9
- Replace markdownlint with mdformat in CI to avoid the dependence on ruby [1382](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1382) ly015
- Improve documentation quality ([1385](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1385), [#1394](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1394), [#1395](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1395), [#1408](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1408)) chubei-oppen, ly015, liqikai9

**Bug Fixes**

- Fix xywh->xyxy bbox conversion in dataset sanity check ([1367](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1367)) jin-s13
- Fix a bug in two-stage 3D keypoint demo ([1373](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1373)) ly015
- Fix out-dated settings in PVT configs ([1376](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1376)) ly015
- Fix myst settings for document compiling ([1381](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1381)) ly015
- Fix a bug in bbox transform ([1384](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1384)) ly015
- Fix inaccurate description of `min_keypoints` in tracking apis ([1398](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1398)) pallgeuer
- Fix warning with `torch.meshgrid` ([1402](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1402)) pallgeuer
- Remove redundant transformer modules from `mmpose.datasets.backbones.utils` ([1405](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/1405)) ly015