Facebook has Open Sourced the Python Code for DensePose - Download it now!

Imagine a world where you open an apparel application on your phone, tap on clothes you like, and the app shows images of you with those clothes on. On the contrary, we are very close to seeing this kind of technology turning into a real-life application. Currently, data scientists are able to annotate images, but the existing approaches locate a sparse set of joints, like the wrists or elbows, which are often used for applications like gesture or action recognition. Facebook's AI Research division (FAIR) has taken this technique to another level altogether. In order to map all human pixels in 2D images to a 3D surface-based model of the body, they have pioneered a new approach called DensePose.