args)</b>:
          # <a href="#conf">conf is a poseConfig</a> object that has the configuration properties
          # kwargs can be ignored.
          self.conf = conf
          self.model = None
          
      # --- helper fuctions ----
         
      def create_dataloader(self, train_info_file):
          # create dataloaders that will return images etc for training
          # An example pytorch based data loader can be found in PoseCommon_pytorch.py. 
          
      def create_model(self):
     