
PoseDepth-CMP: A Comparative Analysis of OpenPose COCO and MPI Keypoint Models for Contour-Guided Monocular Person Depth Estimation with Adaptive Selection
Nauman Irshad Ali Shah, Sammra Habib, Muhammad Umer Amir, Ali Ahmad, Danish Ali
Journal manuscript · Computer Vision / Pose & Depth
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Monocular depth estimation from human imagery supports clinical gait analysis, sports biomechanics, surveillance, and human–computer interaction, yet practitioners lack direct evidence for selecting between OpenPose body-model variants. PoseDepth-CMP provides a locked-seed comparison of COCO (18 keypoints) and MPI (15 keypoints) within the same contour-guided geometric depth pipeline. On 240 controlled samples (seed 42), COCO achieves 94.4% keypoint accuracy with 13.0 cm depth error, whereas MPI achieves 87.3% accuracy with 15.4 cm error while reducing runtime by 13.3% and memory by 16.7%. The learned selector attains 93.6% accuracy and 12.4 cm depth error at intermediate computational cost.
Keywords: OpenPose · COCO keypoints · MPI keypoints · monocular depth estimation · human pose estimation · adaptive model selection



