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Mmskeleton

A OpenMMLAB toolbox for human pose estimation, skeleton-based action recognition, and action synthesis.

From open-mmlab·Updated June 13, 2026·View on GitHub·

MMSkeleton is an open source toolbox for skeleton-based human understanding. It is a part of the [open-mmlab](https://github.com/open-mmlab) project in the charge of [Multimedia Laboratory, CUHK](http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/). MMSkeleton is developed on our research project [ST-GCN](https://github.com/yysijie/st-gcn/blob/master/OLD_README.md). The project is written primarily in Python, distributed under the Apache License 2.0 license, first published in 2017. It has gained significant community traction with 3,118 stars and 1,064 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: action-recognition, deep-learning, graph-convolutional-network, pytorch, skeleton-based-action-recognition.

Latest release: v0.7rc1
January 21, 2020View Changelog →

MMSkeleton

Introduction

MMSkeleton is an open source toolbox for skeleton-based human understanding.
It is a part of the open-mmlab project in the charge of Multimedia Laboratory, CUHK.
MMSkeleton is developed on our research project ST-GCN.

<p align="center"> <img src="demo/recognition/demo_video.gif", width="700"> </p>

Updates

  • [2020-01-21] MMSkeleton v0.7 is released.
  • [2019-10-09] MMSkeleton v0.6 is released.
  • [2019-10-08] Support model zoo.
  • [2019-10-02] Support custom dataset.
  • [2019-09-23] Add video-based pose estimation demo.
  • [2019-08-29] MMSkeleton v0.5 is released.

Features

Getting Started

Please see GETTING_STARTED.md for more details of MMSkeleton.

License

The project is release under the Apache 2.0 license.

Contributing

We appreciate all contributions to improve MMSkeleton.
Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for the contributing guideline.

Citation

Please cite the following paper if you use this repository in your reseach.

<!-- @inproceedings{stgcn2018aaai, title = {Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition}, author = {Sijie Yan and Yuanjun Xiong and Dahua Lin}, booktitle = {AAAI}, year = {2018}, } -->
@misc{mmskeleton2019,
  author =       {Sijie Yan, Yuanjun Xiong, Jingbo Wang, Dahua Lin},
  title =        {MMSkeleton},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmskeleton}},
  year =         {2019}
}

Contact

For any question, feel free to contact

Sijie Yan     : ys016@ie.cuhk.edu.hk
Jingbo Wang   : wangjingbo1219@foxmail.com
Yuanjun Xiong : bitxiong@gmail.com

Contributors

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