# IDEA-Research/DWPose

- id: src_01M569CNRQ4Y72M5WR4MG88GRW
- type: source · status: active · revision: 2
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=metadata_checked, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T07 · tags: level:established, code:python
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:24:18.319Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/sources/src_01M569CNRQ4Y72M5WR4MG88GRW

Source: https://github.com/idea-research/dwpose

```json
{
  "archived": false,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "parent_url": null,
  "usefulness": "Whole-body (body, hands, face) pose estimator via two-stage distillation, built on the RTMPose/MMPose stack, and the pose extractor used as an OpenPose replacement in ControlNet and by pose-driven human animation models (e.g. MimicMotion bundles a modified DWPose).",
  "source_type": "repository",
  "availability": "available",
  "dependencies": [
    "MMPose/RTMPose configs",
    "ONNX branch for ONNX runtime"
  ],
  "source_owner": null,
  "next_check_at": "2026-11-16T00:00:00.000Z",
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": null,
  "known_limitations": [
    "No visible activity on the page since late 2023."
  ],
  "upstream_updated_at": "2023-12-12T02:54:23.000Z"
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [upstream_claim] README: official implementation of 'Effective Whole-body Pose Estimation with Two-stages Distillation' (ICCV 2023 workshop); provides models from tiny to large and states DWPose replaces OpenPose for ControlNet (dw_openpose_full preprocessor in sd-webui-controlnet). · source: https://github.com/IDEA-Research/DWPose
- [sourced_fact] Newest news item on the page is dated 2023/12/03; pretrained weights hosted on Baidu Drive, Google Drive and Hugging Face with no weights license stated. · source: https://github.com/IDEA-Research/DWPose
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

Rights:
- code: license=Apache-2.0 hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=permitted training=unknown · Repository lists Apache-2.0 with the LICENSE file on the onnx branch. · evidence: https://github.com/IDEA-Research/DWPose
- model_weights: license=unknown hosting=unknown redistribution=unknown modification=unknown training=unknown · Weights license not stated on the page; trained on public datasets whose terms were not checked.

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