Human-centered computer vision aligns technological development with human needs and behaviors and enables more intuitive, accessible, and responsive computer vision systems. Its applications span across numerous fields, from enhancing user experience and accessibility to improving healthcare, safety, workplace efficiency, education, social research, and entertainment. As one of the most important topics in the field of human-centric computer vision, human body and head pose analysis plays important role in understanding human behaviors. This chapter introduces the backgrounds of human body and head pose analysis and kinematics of the human body and reviews state-of-the-art datasets and evaluation metrics that are widely used for human body and head pose analysis.