ros_openpose

ROS wrapper for OpenPose | It supports (currently but others are planned)-

• Intel RealSense Camera ✔️
• Microsoft Kinect v2 Camera ✔️
• Stereolabs ZED2 Camera ✔️ (see thanks section)
• Any color camera such as webcam etc ✔️

^{Sample video showing visualization on RViz}

Supported OpenPose Versions

• 1.6.0 latest (see thanks section)
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.0

Dependencies

• OpenPose

Note: Additionally, camera-specific ROS drivers such as following are required as per your camera model-

• realsense-ros: For Intel RealSense Camera
• iai_kinect2: For Microsoft Kinect v2 Camera
• zed-ros-wrapper: For Stereolabs ZED2 Camera

 sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-camera-info-manager
 sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-camera-info-manager-py
  sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-codec-image-transport

Installation

1. Make sure to download the complete repository. Use git clone https://github.com/ravijo/ros_openpose.git or download zip as per your convenience.
2. Invoke catkin tool inside ros workspace i.e., catkin_make
3. Make python scripts executable by using command below-

roscd ros_openpose/scripts
chmod +x *.py

Troubleshooting

1. While compiling the package, if any of the following error is reported at the terminal-

   error: ‘check’ is not a member of ‘op’
   
   error: no match for ‘operator=’ (operand types are ‘op::Matrix’ and ‘const cv::Mat’)
   
   error: invalid initialization of reference of type ‘const op::String&’ from expression of type ‘fLS::clstring {aka std::__cxx11::basic_string<char>}’
   

   In this case, please checkout OpenPose version 1.6.0 by running the following command at the root directory of OpenPose installation-

   git checkout tags/v1.6.0
   

   Do not forget to run sudo make install to install the OpenPose system-wide.
2. If compliation fails by showing the following error-

   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lThreads::Threads
   

   In this case, please put the following by editing the CMakeLists.txt

   find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
   

   For more information, please check here.
3. While compiling the package, if the following error is reported at the terminal-

   error: no match for ‘operator=’ (operand types are ‘op::Matrix’ and ‘const cv::Mat’)
   

   In this case, please update the OpenPose. Most likely, an old version of OpenPose is installed. So please checkout Openpose from the master branch as described here. Alternatively, you can checkout OpenPose version 1.5.1 by running the following command at the root directory of OpenPose installation-

   git checkout tags/v1.5.1
   

   Do not forget to run sudo make install to install the OpenPose system-wide. Note that OpenPose version 1.5.1 is still supported.

Configuration

The main launch file is run.launch. It has the following important arguments-

1. model_folder: It represents the full path to the model directory of OpenPose. Kindly modify it as per OpenPose installation in your machine. Please edit run.launch file as shown below-

   <arg name="openpose_args" value="--model_folder /home/ravi/openpose/models/"/>
   

2. openpose_args: It is provided to support the standard OpenPose command-line arguments. Please edit run.launch file as shown below-

   <arg name="openpose_args" value="--face --hand"/>
   

3. camera: It can only be one of the following: realsense, kinect, zed2, nodepth. Default value of this argument is realsense. See below for more information.

Steps to Run with Intel RealSense Camera

1. Make sure that ROS env is sourced properly by executing the following command-

   source devel/setup.bash
   

2. Invoke the main launch file by executing the following command-

   roslaunch ros_openpose run.launch
   

Steps to Run with Microsoft Kinect v2 Camera

1. Make sure that ROS env is sourced properly by executing the following command-

   source devel/setup.bash
   

2. Invoke the main launch file by executing the following command-

   roslaunch ros_openpose run.launch camera:=kinect
   

Steps to Run with Stereolabs ZED2 Camera

1. Change the parameter openni_depth_mode in zed-ros-wrapper/zed_wrapper/params/common.yaml to true (default is 0).
2. Make sure that ROS env is sourced properly by executing the following command-

   source devel/setup.bash
   

3. Invoke the main launch file by executing the following command-

   roslaunch ros_openpose run.launch camera:=zed2
   

Steps to Run with any Color Camera such as Webcam etc.

1. Make sure that ROS env is sourced properly by executing the following command-

   source devel/setup.bash
   

2. Start the ROS package of your camera. Basically, this package is going to capture images from your camera, and then it is going to publish those images on a ROS topic. Make sure to set the correct ROS topic to color_topic inside config_nodepth.launch file.
3. Invoke the main launch file by executing the following command-

   roslaunch ros_openpose run.launch camera:=nodepth
   

Note: To confirm that ROS package of your camera is working properly, please check if the ROS package is publishing images by executing the following command-

rosrun image_view image_view image:=YOUR_ROSTOPIC

Here YOUR_ROSTOPIC must have the same value as color_topic.

FAQ

1. How to add my own depth camera into this wrapper?

   Go inside launch subdirectory and make a copy of config_realsense.launch as config_mycamera.launch. Make necessary changes to the color_topic, depth_topic, cam_info_topic and frame_id arguments. More inforation is given below-

   • Input depth images are aligned to the color images already.
   • Depth and color images have the same dimension. Therefore, each pixel from the color image can be mapped to corresponding depth pixel at the same x, y location.
   • The depth images contain depth values in millimeters and represented by TYPE_16UC1 using OpenCV.
   • The cam_info_topic is containing camera calibration parameters supplied by the manufacturer.

   Please check here for a similar question.

2. How to run this wrapper with limited resources such as low GPU, RAM, etc.?

   Below is a brief explanation about the ros_openpose package. This package does not use GPU directly. However, it depends on OpenPose, which uses GPU heavily. It contains a few ROS subscribers, which copies data from the camera using ROS. Next, it employs two workers, namely input and output workers. The job of the input worker is to provide color images to the OpenPose, whereas the role of the output worker is to receive the keypoints detected in 2D (pixel) space. The output worker then converts 2D pixels to 3D coordinates. The input worker waits for 10 milliseconds if the camera provides no new frames, and then it checks again if no new frame is available. If not, then wait for 10 milliseconds, and the cycle continues. In this way, we make sure that the CPU gets some time to sleep (indirectly lowering the CPU usage).

   • If the CPU usage are high, try increasing the sleep value (SLEEP_MS) as defined here.
   • Try reducing the --net_resolution and by using --model_pose COCO.
   • Try disabling multithreading in OpenPose software simply by supplying --disable_multi_thread to openpose_args inside run.launch file.
   • Another easiest way is to decrease the FPS of your camera. Please try to lower it down as per your limitations.

   Please check here for a similar question.

3. How to find the version of the OpenPose installed on my machiine?

   Please use the shell script get_openpose_version.sh as shown below-

   sh get_openpose_version.sh
   

   You can use cmake as well. See here

Note

This package has been tested on the following environment configuration-

Name	Value
OS	Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS (64-bit)
RAM	16 GB
Processor	Intel® Core™ i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz × 8
Kernel	Version 4.4.0-148-generic
ROS	Indigo
GCC	Version 5.5.0
OpenCV	Version 2.4.8
OpenPose	Version 1.5.1
GPU	GeForce GTX 1080
CUDA	Version 8.0.61
cuDNN	Version 5.1.10

Issues (or Error Reporting)

Please check here and create issues accordingly.

Thanks

Following authors are sincerely acknowledged for the improvements of this package-

• Marike Koch van den Broek: For adding support for Stereolabs ZED2 Camera
• Zhi: For providing compatibility for OpenPose 1.6