Create 'skeleton' from webcam feed -- where to begin?

Jen Carlile's icon

Hello, I am a total beginner to Max / MSP and Jitter (though I am a software engineer so understand programming concepts well). I would like to create and visualize a skeleton similar to these images based on my computer's webcam feed. I followed the tutorial on connecting your webcam, but have no idea where to start to begin to extract the 'skeleton' of my body and visualize it. Any tips, tutorials, articles, etc. are welcome guidance! Thank you!! - Jen

LSka's icon

Hi Jen, I think your best chance at extracting skeleton data from a simple webcam feed can be this: https://cycling74.com/forums/openpose-for-max-sh%C3%A4ring-some-hot-machine-learning-stuff

Rob Ramirez's icon

might have better luck with the posenet node-for-max example : https://github.com/yuichkun/n4m-posenet

i posted a more complete example of using it here : https://cycling74.com/forums/posenet-into-dict

searching the forum for posenet will reveal a handful of posts.