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

✔️ Intel Realsense Camera

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1. OpenPose
2. realsense-ros

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

1. 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.

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

   source devel/setup.bash
   

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

   roslaunch ros_openpose run.launch
   

The standard openpose command-line arguments are also supported. To do so, please set the value of openpose_args by editing the run.launch file as shown below-

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

This package has been tested on the following environment configuration-