**Highlights**
1. Support animal pose estimation with 7 popular datasets.
1. Support "A simple yet effective baseline for 3d human pose estimation" (ICCV'17).
**New Features**
- Support "A simple yet effective baseline for 3d human pose estimation" (ICCV'17) ([\554](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/554),[\#558](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/558),[\#566](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/566),[\#570](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/570),[\#589](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/589))
- Support animal pose estimation ([\559](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/559),[\#561](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/561),[\#563](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/563),[\#571](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/571),[\#603](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/603),[\#605](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/605))
- Support Horse-10 dataset ([\561](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/561)), MacaquePose dataset ([\#561](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/561)), Vinegar Fly dataset ([\#561](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/561)), Desert Locust dataset ([\#561](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/561)), Grevy's Zebra dataset ([\#561](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/561)), ATRW dataset ([\#571](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/571)), and Animal-Pose dataset ([\#603](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/603)).
- Support bottom-up pose tracking demo ([\574](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/574)).
- Support FP16 training ([\584](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/584),[\#616](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/616),[\#626](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/626)).
- Support NMS for bottom-up ([\609](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/609)).
**Bug Fixes**
- Fix bugs in the top-down demo, when there are no people in the images ([\569](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/569)).
- Fix the links in the doc ([\612](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/612)).
**Improvements**
- Speed up top-down inference ([\560](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/560))
- Update github CI ([\562](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/562),[\#564](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/564))
- Update Readme ([\578](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/578),[\#579](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/579),[\#580](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/580),[\#592](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/592),[\#599](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/599),[\#600](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/600),[\#607](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/607))
- Update Faq ([\587](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/587),[\#610](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmpose/pull/610))