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Use Case 2: AI based Virtual Yoga Instructor for Good health

Country: India

Organization: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune

Contact Person(s):

Lakshmi Sandip Panat, lakshmip@ cdac .in
Swapna Yenishetti, swapnae@ cdac .in
Ganesh Karajkhede, ganeshk@ cdac .in

1 Use Case Summary Table

Item Details
Category Healthcare

Problem Addressed Yoga learners and practitioners often face challenges of finding
convenient time slots for yoga practice, travel time required to
reach the yoga studio, personalized yoga coaching, tracking the
improvement in performing the yoga pose, affordability of yoga
classes, and customized content for specific health conditions like
yoga for diabetes, yoga for heart disease, etc. Also, the cost of
performing yoga poses incorrectly can result in negative effects
on the body, leading to muscle injury, joint pain, back pain, nerve
compression, pressure on internal organs, leading to injury, etc.
Yoga learners will benefit
Key Aspects of Solution • Real-time Yoga Pose Correction: Develop an AI algorithm to
provide immediate feedback on yoga postures during prac-
tice.
• Improved Health Outcomes: Enable practitioners to achieve
better health benefits by ensuring correct and safe pose
execution.
• Reduced Reliance on Human Instructors: Minimize the neces-
sity for constant human supervision, making yoga practice
more accessible.
• Dynamic and Lightweight Processing: Ensure the system
can handle the dynamic nature of yoga poses with real-
time processing capabilities while remaining efficient and
resource-friendly.

Technology Keywords Yoga Asanas, Yoga Pose correction, Convolutional Neural
Network (CNN), Movenet, TensorFlow/Keras [5]

Data Availability Yoga data publicly available [1]

Metadata (Type of Data) Images, Landmarks and Video Data

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