AI based Yoga Trainer - Simplifying home yoga using mediapipe and video streaming

ABSTRACT

COVID-19 has induced the need of exercises and yoga among people. Yoga is now becoming a habit of everyone for staying fit and healthy through body and mind. Since, it was the period of complete lockdown, people started preferring online modes for the same. There are many different apps on the play store specifically for doing yoga. With the advent of artificial intelligence in various industries, it is also winning the hearts of the yoga enthusiasts too. The integration of AI in the fitness industry (AI enabled fitness trainers, smart wearables, AI based gym equipment to name a few) is gaining huge momentum among the health conscious. This paper walks through different yoga mobile applications that use the techniques of artificial intelligence to motivate their customers with personalized experience and positive feedback and introduces a new concept of AI based Yoga Trainer who reminds, instructs, guides, and motivates a user to do yoga or while doing yoga. © 2022 IEEE.