Yoga pose estimation using angle-based feature extraction
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Author(s)
Borthakur, Debanjan
Paul, Arindam
Kapil, Dev
Saikia, Manob Jyoti
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Objective: This research addresses the challenges of maintaining proper yoga postures, an issue that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shift to virtual platforms for yoga instruction. This research aims to develop a mechanism for detecting correct yoga poses and providing real-time feedback through the application of computer vision and machine learning (ML) techniques. Methods and Procedures: This study utilized computer vision-based pose estimation methods to extract features and calculate yoga pose angles. A variety of models, including extremely randomized trees, logistic regression, random forest, gradient boosting, extreme gradient boosting, and deep neural networks, were trained and tested to classify yoga poses. Our study employed the Yoga-82 dataset, consisting of many yoga pose images downloaded from the web. Results: The results of this study show that the extremely randomized trees model outperformed the other models, achieving the highest prediction accuracy of 91% on the test dataset and 92% in a fivefold cross-validation experiment. Other models like random forest, gradient boosting, extreme gradient boosting, and deep neural networks achieved accuracies of 90%, 89%, 90%, and 85%, respectively, while logistic regression underperformed, having the lowest accuracy. Conclusion: This research concludes that the extremely randomized trees model presents superior predictive power for yoga pose recognition. This suggests a valuable avenue for future exploration in this domain. Moreover, the approach has significant potential for implementation on low-powered smartphones with minimal latency, thereby enabling real-time feedback for users practicing yoga at home.
Date Issued
2023-12-09
Date Acceptance
2023-12-07
Citation
Healthcare, 2023, 11 (24)
ISSN
2227-9032
Publisher
MDPI AG
Journal / Book Title
Healthcare
Volume
11
Issue
24
Copyright Statement
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
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Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38132023
PII: healthcare11243133
Subjects
computer vision
machine learning
pose estimation
yoga
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
Switzerland
Article Number
3133
Date Publish Online
2023-12-09