Table 3.

Overview of available software toolboxes for 2D and 3D pose estimation from 2D cameras.

Toolbox	Modality	Feature	Tracking	Gait analysis research
DeeperCut	2D	ResNets, pairwise terms	Multiple	-
DeepLabCut	2D/3D	Pre-trained ResNets	Single*	Cronin et al., 2019
				Needham et al., 2021
OpenPose	2D/3D	Part Affinity Fields	Multiple	Xue et al., 2018
				Gu et al., 2018
				Viswakumar et al., 2019
				D'Antonio et al., 2020, 2021
				Zago et al., 2020
				Needham et al., 2021
				Stenum et al., 2021
Anipose	3D	Pre-trained ResNets	Single	-
DeepPoseKit	2D	Multi-scale inference	Single	-
AlphaPose	2D	Regional pose estimation	Multiple	Needham et al., 2021

*Designed for single person tracking, but can optionally perform multi-pose tracking.