I am 100 videos deep in individually pausing and pressing play every few seconds of a 18 second video of a surfer surfing in a wave pool. I have created a formula for a scoring output for each individual manoeuvre and action during the clip of the surfer on the wave. I am using the 33 key point skeleton extraction over the body for manoeuvre position tagging. What is the best product out there for ai vision tracking and pose detection ? My detection is slow and lagging, it’s okay but not great
If you want the best overall balance of speed, accuracy, and deployment right now, I’d use Ultralytics YOLO26 pose. It’s the current recommended Ultralytics model for pose work and is a strong fit for real-time sports analysis.
One important detail: if your pipeline depends on a 33-point body skeleton, that usually points to MediaPipe-style landmarks. The standard pretrained YOLO pose models are typically 17-keypoint human pose, so for your surfing scoring workflow the best path is often a custom-trained YOLO26-pose model on your own 33-keypoint labels. That usually matters more than the model name alone, especially with wave-pool angles, spray, occlusion, and fast turns.
If you want, I can help you pick the fastest setup for your videos, either:
MediaPipe for fixed 33 landmarks
or
YOLO26-pose custom training for better tracking/robustness