For pose and action recognition with poselets please cite:

@InProceedings{MajiActionCVPR11,
  author       = "Subhransu Maji and Lubomir Bourdev and Jitendra Malik",
  title        = "Action Recognition from a Distributed Representation of Pose and Appearance",
  booktitle    = "IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)",
  year         = "2011",
  url          = "http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lbourdev/poselets"
}