Highlights

• Add models for Associative Embedding with Hourglass network backbone (#906, #955) @jin-s13, @luminxu
• Support COCO-Wholebody-Face and COCO-Wholebody-Hand datasets (#813) @jin-s13, @innerlee, @luminxu
• Upgrade dataset interface (#901, #924) @jin-s13, @innerlee, @ly015, @liqikai9
• New style of documentation (#945) @ly015

New Features

• Add models for Associative Embedding with Hourglass network backbone (#906, #955) @jin-s13, @luminxu
• Support COCO-Wholebody-Face and COCO-Wholebody-Hand datasets (#813) @jin-s13, @innerlee, @luminxu
• Add pseudo-labeling tool to generate COCO style keypoint annotations with given bounding boxes (#928) @soltkreig
• New style of documentation (#945) @ly015

Bug Fixes

• Fix segmentation parsing in Macaque dataset preprocessing (#948) @jin-s13
• Fix dependencies that may lead to CI failure in downstream projects (#936, #953) @RangiLyu, @ly015
• Fix keypoint order in Human3.6M dataset (#940) @ttxskk
• Fix unstable image loading for Interhand2.6M (#913) @zengwang430521

Improvements

• Upgrade dataset interface (#901, #924) @jin-s13, @innerlee, @ly015, @liqikai9
• Improve demo usability and stability (#908, #934) @ly015
• Standardize model metafile format (#941) @ly015
• Support persistent_worker and several other arguments in configs (#946) @jin-s13
• Use MMCV root model registry to enable cross-project module building (#935) @RangiLyu
• Improve the document quality (#916, #909, #942, #913, #956) @jin-s13, @ly015, @bit-scientist, @zengwang430521
• Improve pull request template (#952, #954) @ly015

Breaking Changes

• Upgrade dataset interface (#901) @jin-s13, @innerlee, @ly015