Promoting Fitness with Automated Movement Recognition Using Machine Learning

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The problem

The problem that this Omdena-Playfitt project is trying to address is the lack of motivation and ability to track physical movements for users who want to exercise more. The goal is to encourage people to move more by making it easy and fun to track their movements using sensors on an iPhone. Specifically, PlayFitt aims to automatically measure whether a user is performing a given movement and how many repetitions they have completed. This involves two tasks: a classification task (identifying the movement being performed) and a counting task (counting the number of repetitions completed). By solving these tasks, users can be provided with feedback on their progress, get motivated to move more, and also help them achieve their fitness goals.

The project goals

This project will be based on building a python framework that is capable of handling multiple parallel requests and a robust counter for which accuracy will be dependent on various factors.

Project Scope:

• Have live counting in the app to know the count as the user is doing the movements.
• It should be as robust as possible wrt cheat detection. For example, shaking one’s phone shouldn’t count as any real movement.
• It is important to minimize false negatives (e.g. users really doing movements getting called Non-movements by the classifier) as those are horrible for user experience. 
• It is better to be more generous rather than more strict. The optimization should not be only concerned about the accuracy of the confusion matrix.
• Build a Python infrastructure that can handle many incoming requests from users and have the built-in capabilities to process the classifier – counter for many different sessions happening in parallel.

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