A View Independent Classification Framework for Yoga Postures.

ABSTRACT: Yoga is a globally acclaimed and widely recommended practice for a healthy living. Maintaining correct posture while performing a Yogasana is of utmost importance. In this work, we employ transfer learning from human pose estimation models for extracting 136 key-points spread all over the body to train a random forest classifier which is used for estimation of the Yogasanas. The results are evaluated on an in-house collected extensive yoga video database of 51 subjects recorded from four different camera angles. We use a three step scheme for evaluating the generalizability of a Yoga classifier by testing it on (1) unseen frames, (2) unseen subjects, and (3) unseen camera angles. We argue that for most of the applications, validation accuracies on unseen subjects and unseen camera angles w

SUBMITTER: Chasmai M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9470077 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature