Try_to_Run_Openpose - kileyhartigan/freemocap GitHub Wiki

Going off the Windows Portable Demo Instructions from the Installation Guide Installing_OpenPose and reading the quick start guide:

left my programming noob brain spinning. Starting with the second sentence...the seemingly simple part where you need to ensure you're in the correct root directory of the project (i.e the openpose folder)

The OpenPose folder is the one you already downloaded in step 2 of the Windows Portable Demo Instructions and will likely be in your downloads folder.

• Unzip the downloaded folder and open it, it should lead to another folder called openpose.
• Move that unzipped openpose folder to you :C\ directory
• Once it's in your :C\ directory, open powershell from within that folder (see below)

Here's a way I found out how to open_a_powershell_within_a_folder:

Here's what my powershell window looks like when I do that (I named that folder openpoase_1.7 because I was trying this with openpose_1.6 simulatneously)

• enter the following command into powershell: bin\\OpenPoseDemo.exe

The first time I did this, I got this error:

This is what prompted looking into issues with extracting the models in the first place. Doing the manual override of the models folder fixed this issue and freed me up to continue along my journey of errors, which you can enjoy experiencing below.

After resolving the models issue, I tried that bin\\OpenPoseDemo.execommand again and got this error:

This really confused us, so I began all over again and tried again with openpose_1.6

Redoing the previous command ( bin\\OpenPoseDemo.exe) in a powershell window within the openpose1.6 folder like so...also gave me a new error :(

This lead me to search for how much memory my GPU has and sadly found it to be only 2 GB.

Long story short, we found that using this command: bin\\OpenPoseDemo.exe --net_resolution -1x160 reduces the resolution of the openpose video enough that it doesn't overload my GPU, however my GPU isn't powerful enough to run the face or hand tracking. Below is a screenshot of what I got to work for my little GPU :)

I know that my device can't handle the face or hand tracking because running the commands: bin\\OpenPoseDemo.exe --net_resolution -1x160 --hand bin\\OpenPoseDemo.exe --net_resolution -1x160 --face

lead to the previous error about not enough memory space:

My system has a 2GB video graphics card, you need more than that to use openpose reliably without stressing your computer out too much.