OpenPose - Authors and Contributors
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### Authors
OpenPose is authored by [Gines Hidalgo](https://www.gineshidalgo.com/), [Zhe Cao](http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/zhecao), [Tomas Simon](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tsimon/), [Shih-En Wei](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sFQD3k4AAAAJ&hl=en), [Hanbyul Joo](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hanbyulj/), and [Yaser Sheikh](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yaser/).



### Contributors
We would also like to thank the following people who have highly contributed to OpenPose:

1. [Yaadhav Raaj](https://www.raaj.tech): OpenPose maintainer, CPU version, OpenCL version, Mac version, Python API, and person tracker.
2. [Bikramjot Hanzra](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bikz05): Former OpenPose maintainer, CMake (Ubuntu and Windows) version, and initial Travis Build version for Ubuntu.
3. [Donglai Xiang](https://xiangdonglai.github.io): Camera calibration toolbox improvement, including the implementation of its bundle adjustment algorithm.
4. [Luis Fernando Fraga](https://github.com/fragalfernando): Implementation of Lukas-Kanade algorith and person ID extractor.
5. [Akash Patwal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akash-patwal-63a12012a): Speedup of the CUDA image resize and visual skeleton rendering, as well as extension that allows OpenPose to speedup linearly to more than 4 GPUs.
6. [Helen Medina](https://github.com/helen-medina): Initial Windows version.