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2.Posture detection
Posture Detection
2.1 Introduction
MediaPipe is a data stream processing machine learning application development framework developed and open-sourced by Google. It is a graph-based data processing pipeline used to build applications that use multiple forms of data sources, such as video, audio, sensor data, and any time series data. MediaPipe is cross-platform and can run on embedded platforms (Raspberry Pi and similar), mobile devices (iOS and Android), workstations and servers, with support for mobile GPU acceleration. MediaPipe provides cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for real-time and streaming media.
The core framework of MediaPipe is implemented in C++ and provides support for Java and Objective C. The main concepts of MediaPipe include Packet, Stream, Calculator, Graph, and Subgraph.
MediaPipe features:
- End-to-end acceleration: Built-in fast ML inference and processing accelerate even on ordinary hardware.
- Build once, deploy anywhere: Unified solutions work on Android, iOS, desktop/cloud, web, and IoT.
- Ready-to-use solutions: Cutting-edge ML solutions that showcase all framework features.
- Free and open source: Framework and solutions under Apache 2.0, fully extensible and customizable.
2.2 MediaPipe Pose
MediaPipe Pose is an ML solution for high-fidelity body pose tracking, leveraging BlazePose research to infer 33 3D coordinates and full-body background segmentation mask from RGB video frames. This research also powers the ML Kit Pose Detection API.
The landmark model in MediaPipe Pose predicts the positions of 33 pose coordinates (see figure below).

2.3 Posture Detection
2.3.1 Launch
Enter in terminal:
xxxxxxxxxxros2 run dofbot_mediapipe 02_PoseDetector

2.3.2 Source Code
Source location: /home/yahboom/dofbot_ws/src/dofbot_mediapipe/dofbot_mediapipe/02_PoseDetector.py
x#!/usr/bin/env python3# encoding: utf-8import timeimport rclpyfrom rclpy.node import Nodeimport cv2 as cvimport numpy as npimport mediapipe as mpfrom geometry_msgs.msg import Pointfrom dofbot_msgs.msg import PointArrayfrom sensor_msgs.msg import Imagefrom cv_bridge import CvBridgeclass PoseDetector(Node): def __init__(self): super().__init__('pose_detector') self.publisher_ = self.create_publisher(PointArray, '/mediapipe/points', 10) self.bridge = CvBridge() self.mpPose = mp.solutions.pose self.mpDraw = mp.solutions.drawing_utils self.pose = self.mpPose.Pose( static_image_mode=False, smooth_landmarks=True, min_detection_confidence=0.5, min_tracking_confidence=0.5 ) self.lmDrawSpec = mp.solutions.drawing_utils.DrawingSpec(color=(0, 0, 255), thickness=-1, circle_radius=6) self.drawSpec = mp.solutions.drawing_utils.DrawingSpec(color=(0, 255, 0), thickness=2, circle_radius=2) self.capture = cv.VideoCapture(0, cv.CAP_V4L2) self.capture.set(6, cv.VideoWriter.fourcc('M', 'J', 'P', 'G')) self.capture.set(cv.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 640) self.capture.set(cv.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 480) if not self.capture.isOpened(): self.get_logger().error("Failed to open the camera") return self.get_logger().info(f"Camera FPS: {self.capture.get(cv.CAP_PROP_FPS)}") self.pTime = time.time() self.timer = self.create_timer(0.03, self.process_frame) def process_frame(self): ret, frame = self.capture.read() if not ret: self.get_logger().error("Failed to read frame") return frame, img = self.pubPosePoint(frame, draw=True) cTime = time.time() fps = 1 / (cTime - self.pTime) self.pTime = cTime text = "FPS : " + str(int(fps)) cv.putText(frame, text, (20, 30), cv.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, 0.9, (0, 0, 255), 1) combined_frame = self.frame_combine(frame, img) cv.imshow('PoseDetector', combined_frame) if cv.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'): self.get_logger().info("Exiting program") self.capture.release() cv.destroyAllWindows() self.destroy_node() rclpy.shutdown() exit(0) def pubPosePoint(self, frame, draw=True): pointArray = PointArray() img = np.zeros(frame.shape, np.uint8) img_RGB = cv.cvtColor(frame, cv.COLOR_BGR2RGB) self.results = self.pose.process(img_RGB) if self.results.pose_landmarks: if draw: self.mpDraw.draw_landmarks(frame, self.results.pose_landmarks, self.mpPose.POSE_CONNECTIONS, self.lmDrawSpec, self.drawSpec) self.mpDraw.draw_landmarks(img, self.results.pose_landmarks, self.mpPose.POSE_CONNECTIONS, self.lmDrawSpec, self.drawSpec) for id, lm in enumerate(self.results.pose_landmarks.landmark): point = Point() point.x, point.y, point.z = lm.x, lm.y, lm.z pointArray.points.append(point) self.publisher_.publish(pointArray) return frame, img def frame_combine(self, frame, src): if len(frame.shape) == 3: frameH, frameW = frame.shape[:2] srcH, srcW = src.shape[:2] dst = np.zeros((max(frameH, srcH), frameW + srcW, 3), np.uint8) dst[:, :frameW] = frame[:, :] dst[:, frameW:] = src[:, :] else: src = cv.cvtColor(src, cv.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) frameH, frameW = frame.shape[:2] imgH, imgW = src.shape[:2] dst = np.zeros((frameH, frameW + imgW), np.uint8) dst[:, :frameW] = frame[:, :] dst[:, frameW:] = src[:, :] return dstdef main(args=None): rclpy.init(args=args) node = PoseDetector() try: rclpy.spin(node) except KeyboardInterrupt: pass finally: node.capture.release() cv.destroyAllWindows() node.destroy_node() rclpy.shutdown()if __name__ == '__main__': main()