Stacked hourglass network

Closed weights University of Michigan September 2016

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
University of Michigan
Organisation type
Academia
Country
United States of America
Published
17 September 2016
Authors
Alejandro Newell, Kaiyu Yang, Jia Deng

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Vision
Task
Pose estimation
Numerical format
FP32

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
802,816,000 tokens

How it is classified

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Record confidence
Unknown
Citations
5,316

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation
Last updated
1 January 2026

What the numbers mean

Background

Stacked hourglass network was published by University of Michigan, in the country recorded as United States of America, during September 2016. It comes out of an organisation categorised as academia.

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of pose estimation.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

Training and provenance

The training set ran to roughly 802,816,000 tokens of text.

Answers

Stacked hourglass network — common questions

01

Stacked hourglass network— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

02

Stacked hourglass network— who created it?

It was published by University of Michigan, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as academia.

03

Stacked hourglass network— when was it released?

It was published in September 2016. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

04

Stacked hourglass network— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as handling the task of pose estimation. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

05

Stacked hourglass network— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

06

Stacked hourglass network— is it open source?

The licensing was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 1 January 2026

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