Computer Vision
Real-Time Pose Estimation with MediaPipe
2025-06-12 7 min readRohit Raj
MediaPipePose EstimationPython
MediaPipe is Google's open-source framework for building multimodal machine learning pipelines. It became an essential tool in all my sign language projects.
Why MediaPipe?
- ▸Real-time performance (30+ FPS on CPU)
- ▸Pre-trained models for hand, face, and body pose
- ▸Cross-platform support
- ▸Easy Python API
Integration with YOLO
We used YOLO for person detection and then fed each detected person ROI to MediaPipe for detailed keypoint extraction. This combination gave us the best balance of speed and accuracy.