- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic gyms, parks, and fitness facilities worldwide have been shut down. It has become difficult for health-conscious people to interact and exercise with their peers. Moreover, students are limited to playing online games.
- The physical fitness and health among the work-from-home folks during the pandemic has degraded. People have lost of the motivation to exercise in virtual mode.
- Also, online exercise sessions are not productive. It is not possible for the instructor to determine whether the students are exercising correctly through a video call.
- We present a virtual gym community where people can join a private video chat room and exercise with their mates. It would keep a track of one’s daily fitness activities and also host exercise competitions among peers.
- We plan to leverage the power of AI/ML to track various exercises movements and yoga postures to determine if the users are exercising correctly.
- Our pose detection algorithm shall take care of the counts and exercise postures so that users can freely exercise with their peers.
- Dashboard: Get detailed insights of your daily fitness activity, points earned, leaderboard ranking, etc.
- Make Friends: Find your friends on our platform, send friend requests, and grow your virtual fitness network.
- Yoga Center: Experience more than 15 guided video sessions, with step-by-step explanation for each asana.
- AI Powered: Our pose detection algorithm will assist you to perform each asana accurately.
- Video Stream: Join with your friends on a video call for a healthy fitness competition.
- Win Rewards: Be a top performer and win discount points and get a chance to win free elite pass.
- Unlike google meet or MS Teams we have integrated a pose detection algorithm on a live video stream so that the algorithm will keep a count of the exercises performed, while the user is in a video call with his peers. Such functionality does not exist in present-day fitness apps.
- We have trained an ML model to classify various yoga poses and also predict their accuracies. It also gives real-time personalized feedback to the user to perform exercises correctly.
- We have tried to gamify our application and make it as interactive as possible. This will help to build the motivation among our users to continue exercising even in virtual mode.
- Our solution has the potential to impact millions of fitness freaks who miss the gym environment during the Covid-19 lockdown and find it difficult to exercise alone. With physical training facilities shut down all across the globe, our solution will provide an effective mode to revive the motivation to exercise and build a healthy fitness community globally.
- Fitness instructors can use our application for online exercise sessions. They will benefit from our AI-Powered Pose detection model to see if their students are exercising correctly.
- In the future, we plan to shift our application to a mobile version. This way our users can conveniently carry our app and still exercise with their peers across the globe.
- Integrating a pose detection model for accurate real-time results was challenging. After a lot of research work, we were able to successfully implemented the Mediapipe Pose model to serve our purpose.
- We could not use Google meet or MS Teams for the video calling feature in our application because we do not have access to their video element to apply the pose detection model. Hence we had to build our own video sharing application from scratch.
- It took us a lot of brainstorming to code the logic of training the ML model to classify yoga poses and predict their accuracies.
- Improving ML model for more accurate results
- Addition of more exercises and yoga asanas
- Switching to a better hosting service like Azure or AWS for increased website traffic handling
- Feature to add user's custom exercises/ routine