Yoga Asana Identification: A Deep Learning Approach

Abstract Yoga is a healthy practice that originated from India, to rejuvenate a man in his physical, mental, and spiritual wellness. Moving with the brisk technology advancements, there is a vast opportunity for computational probing in all social domains. But still, the utilization of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for applying to an interdisciplinary domain like yoga is quite challenging. In this work, a system that recognizes a yoga posture from an image or a frame of a video has been developed with the help of deep learning techniques like convolutional neural networks (CNN) and transfer learning. We have considered images of 10 different asanas for training the model as well as evaluating the prediction accuracy. The prediction model backed with transfer learning shows promising results with 85% prediction accuracy and this system can be considered as an initial step to build an automated yoga image and video analysis tool.