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Yoga posture recognition by detecting human joint points in real time using microsoft kinect
Author Affiliations
Asian University of Bangladesh, Islamic University of Technology, Uttara University
Year2017
Citations98
Abstract
Musculoskeletal disorder is increasing in humans due to accidents or aging which is a great concern for future world. Physical exercises can reduce this disorder. Yoga is a great medium of physical exercise. For doing yoga a trainer is important who can monitor the perfectness of different yoga poses. In this paper, we have proposed a system which can monitor human body parts movement and monitor the accuracy of different yoga poses which aids the user to practice yoga. We have used Microsoft Kinect to detect different joint points of human body in real time and from those joint points we calculate various angles to measure the accuracy of a certain yoga poses for a user. Our proposed system can…
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Fields & Keywords
Physical SciencesComputer ScienceComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionHuman Pose and Action RecognitionHand Gesture Recognition SystemsVideo Surveillance and Tracking MethodsHuman–computer interactionArtificial intelligenceComputer visionPhysical medicine and rehabilitationOperating systemArchitectural engineering