How I Identify the Yoga Poses with CV in 7 steps
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Gencay I.
Originally published on Towards AI.
Identify Yoga Poses with Computer Vision using Deep Learning and CNNs — A Data Science Approach

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There is no doubt that yoga has become increasingly popular over the years, with millions of people practicing it worldwide. However, with the vast number of yoga poses available, it can be challenging to identify and perform them correctly. That’s where data science, AI, Python, machine learning, and deep learning come in.
As if that is not enough; the development of computer vision technology has enabled us to automatically identify and classify images accurately. By leveraging deep learning algorithms and tools like TensorFlow, we can train a model to recognize and classify yoga poses from images and videos.
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