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Recognition of yoga poses using EMG signals from lower limb muscles

  • Mahidol University

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Abstract

Exercise with yoga postures is very popular nowadays because yoga exercises can help to increase flexibility and muscle strength and improve the respiratory system. However, the correctness of the yoga postures is difficult to check, and thus practitioners may not be able to benefit from the exercises fully. This paper presents a yoga posture recognition system to verify the correctness of the lower muscle movements while practicing yoga. The study included ten subjects, five males and five females. Data were collected during five yoga postures. This paper focuses on the use of Electromyography signals for analyzing the motion of four lower-limb muscles of both legs. Recognition was performed with three machine learning algorithms. The results showed that the Random Forest Decision Tree algorithm has the highest accuracy in recognizing yoga postures in comparison with other algorithms and that the yoga posture recognition model is accurate at 87.43 percent.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationECTI DAMT-NCON 2019 - 4th International Conference on Digital Arts, Media and Technology and 2nd ECTI Northern Section Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages132-136
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538680728
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Apr 2019
Event4th Joint International Conference on Digital Arts, Media and Technology and 2nd ECTI Northern Section Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, ECTI DAMT-NCON 2019 - Nan, Thailand
Duration: 30 Jan 20192 Feb 2019

Publication series

NameECTI DAMT-NCON 2019 - 4th International Conference on Digital Arts, Media and Technology and 2nd ECTI Northern Section Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering

Conference

Conference4th Joint International Conference on Digital Arts, Media and Technology and 2nd ECTI Northern Section Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, ECTI DAMT-NCON 2019
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityNan
Period30/01/192/02/19

Keywords

  • Electromyography
  • Lower-limb muscles
  • Machine learning
  • Yoga pose

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