YogaTube: A Video Benchmark for Yoga Action Recognition

Santosh Kumar Yadav, Guntaas Singh, Manisha Verma, Kamlesh Tiwari, Hari Mohan Pandey, Shaik Ali Akbar, Peter Corcoran

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Abstract

Yoga can be seen as a set of fitness exercises involving various body postures. Most of the available pose and action recognition datasets are comprised of easy-to-moderate body pose orientations and do not offer much challenge to the learning algorithms in terms of the complexity of pose. In order to observe action recognition from a different perspective, we introduce YogaTube, a new large-scale video benchmark dataset for yoga action recognition. YogaTube aims at covering a wide range of complex yoga postures, which consist of 5484 videos belonging to a taxonomy of 82 classes of yoga asanas. Also, a three-stream architecture has been designed for yoga asanas pose recognition using two modules, feature extraction, and classification. Feature extraction comprises three parallel components. First, pose is estimated using the part affinity fields model to extract meaningful cues from the practitioner. Second, optical flow is used to extract temporal features. Third, raw RGB videos are used for extracting the spatiotemporal features. Finally in the classification module, pose, optical flow, and RGB streams are fused to get the final results of the yoga asanas. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to establish a video benchmark yoga recognition dataset. The code and dataset will be released soon.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2022 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728186719
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2022 - Padua, Italy
Duration: 18 Jul 202223 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Volume2022-July

Conference

Conference2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2022
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityPadua
Period18/07/2223/07/22

Keywords

  • Action recognition
  • Deep Learning
  • Multi-stream fusion
  • Yoga

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