ensure /etc/docker/daemon.json file is

modified to use nvidia runtime by default

FROM nvidia/cuda:8.0-cudnn5-devel

install dependencies

RUN apt-get update &&
apt-get install -y
build-essential
cmake
git
pkg-config
libjpeg8-dev
libtiff5-dev
libjasper-dev
libpng12-dev
libavcodec-dev
libavformat-dev
libswscale-dev
libv4l-dev
libx264-dev
libx265-dev
libatlas-base-dev
gfortran
python3.5-dev
libboost-all-dev
libgflags-dev
libgoogle-glog-dev
libprotobuf-lite9v5
libprotobuf-dev
protobuf-compiler
wget
unzip
python3-pip
libhdf5-serial-dev
libleveldb-dev
liblmdb-dev
libsnappy-dev
yasm &&
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

upgrade pip(3)

RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip &&
pip3 install numpy scipy

opencv (3.2 specifically)

ensure dnn is NOT enabled, this will cause problems!

RUN cd ~ &&
export OPENCV_CHECKSUM=7a7d2eb8cf617f58d610d856e531f3d92b89bc42 &&
export OPENCV_CONTRIB_CHECKSUM=9f34aef18d05cf7136d6b251c794cfdfcdb2e78d &&
wget -O opencv.zip https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/3.2.0.zip &&
wget -O opencv_contrib.zip https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib/archive/3.2.0.zip &&
echo "{OPENCV_CHECKSUM} opencv.zip" | sha1sum -c && \ echo "{OPENCV_CONTRIB_CHECKSUM} opencv_contrib.zip" | sha1sum -c &&
unzip opencv.zip &&
unzip opencv_contrib.zip &&
rm -f opencv.zip &&
rm -f opencv_contrib.zip

RUN cd /opencv-3.2.0/ &&
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE
-D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
-D INSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=OFF
-D INSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=OFF
-D BUILD_opencv_dnn=OFF
-D OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=/opencv_contrib-3.2.0/modules
-D PYTHON3_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3
-D BUILD_opencv_python2=OFF
-D BUILD_opencv_python3=ON
-D BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF .. &&
make -j"(nproc)" && \ make install -j"(nproc)" &&
ldconfig &&
cd ~ &&
rm -rf opencv-3.2.0 &&
rm -rf opencv_contrib-3.2.0

RUN cd /opt &&
export OPENPOSE_CHECKSUM=9f34aef18d05cf7136d6b251c794cfdfcdb2e78d &&
wget -O openpose.zip https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose/archive/v1.2.1.zip &&
&& echo "${OPENCV_CHECKSUM} opencv.zip" | sha1sum -c &&
unzip openpose.zip &&
rm -f openpose.zip &&
mv openpose-1.2.1 openpose-master

ENV CAFFE_ROOT=/opt/openpose-master/3rdparty/caffe

caffe

RUN cd /opt/openpose-master &&
rm -rf 3rdparty/caffe &&
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/caffe.git 3rdparty/caffe &&
cd 3rdparty/caffe/ &&
cp Makefile.config.Ubuntu16_cuda8.example Makefile.config &&
sed -i '/# OPENCV_VERSION := 3/c\OPENCV_VERSION := 3' Makefile.config &&
sed -i '/# PYTHON_LIBRARIES := boost_python3 python3.5m/c\PYTHON_LIBRARIES := boost_python3 python3.5m' Makefile.config &&
sed -i '/# PYTHON_INCLUDE := /usr/include/python3.5m \/c\PYTHON_INCLUDE := /usr/include/python3.5m \' Makefile.config &&
sed -i '/# /usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/numpy/core/include/c\ /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/numpy/core/include' Makefile.config &&
cd python &&
for req in $(cat requirements.txt) pydot; do pip install$req; done &&
cd .. &&
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py35.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python3.so &&
make all -j"$(nproc)"

ENV PYCAFFE_ROOT $CAFFE_ROOT/python ENV PYTHONPATH$PYCAFFE_ROOT:$PYTHONPATH ENV PATH$CAFFE_ROOT/build/tools:$PYCAFFE_ROOT:$PATH RUN echo "$CAFFE_ROOT/build/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/caffe.conf && ldconfig

and distribute

RUN cd /opt/openpose-master/3rdparty/caffe/ &&
make distribute -j"$(nproc)"

compile openpose

ENV OPENPOSE_ROOT /opt/openpose-master RUN cd /opt/openpose-master &&
cp ubuntu/Makefile.config.Ubuntu16_cuda8.example Makefile.config &&
sed -i '/# OPENCV_VERSION := 3/c\OPENCV_VERSION := 3' Makefile.config &&
make all -j"$(nproc)"

your app goes here...

sample

CMD ["/opt/openpose-master/build/examples/openpose/openpose.bin", "--keypoint_scale 3"]