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Re:OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands es... by wiz21c on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:30AM (#16315415)
no commercial use it seems.

Not 100% related, but the copyright holder(s) are not clear. There is a list of authors so I'd bet they are the copyright holders. But given the fact their email addresses somewhat point to CMU, I wonder if CMU is behind...

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Re:OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands es... by seeekr on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @09:25AM (#16316356)
There's actually a link somewhere to a page[0] that, all the way at the bottom states the price as USD$25,000 for a "Commercial License, yearly renewal".

[0] https://flintbox.com/public/project/47343/

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Re:OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands es... by kejaed on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:47PM (#16318948)
When I saw this a little while ago I thought it would be great for automated video analysis of barbell lifts / weightlifting given the angles involved in such things can be a good metric for form.

However, the license specifically states that you cannot use it for sports. I wonder if they singed a high value exclusivity agreement with someone in that space, or if some such company funded the research originally...

"The non-exclusive commercial license cannot be used in the field of Sports. ("Sports" shall mean any and all athletic competition between individuals, groups of individuals or teams.)"

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Re:OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands es... by mcsb1 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:35AM (#16315435)
The Github account is from CMU perceptional computing lab. Thus I'd consider it reasonable to assume that CMU is behind.
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Re:OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands es... by wiz21c on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:41AM (#16315448)
I don't know CMU well, is it privately hold ? I really wonder if the work we see here was paid by taxpayers' money. I guess the papers are freely available but the implementation is not.
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Re:OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands es... by claforte on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:56AM (#16315498)
I'd say it would cost 5% royalty on sales assuming that algorithm was key. Ten years ago I negotiated a licencing agreement with CMU for a computer vision algorithm. I was leading an unknown startup. 5% with no upfront fee is what we ended at.
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Re:OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands es... by electricslpnsld on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @01:43PM (#16318356)
The PI on this project (Yaser Sheikh) also heads up Oculus' Pittsburgh lab. Not sure if there is any overlap on this project.
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Re:OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands es... by zanalyzer on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @08:53AM (#16316195)
The prof is also associated with oculus/fb, so the license has to be friendly to them as well.
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