In the domain of computer vision, human pose estimation is becoming increasingly significant. It's one of the most compelling areas of research, and it's gaining a lot of interest due to its usefulness and flexibility in a variety of fields, including healthcare, gaming, augmented reality, virtual trainings and sports. Human pose estimation has opened a door of opportunities. This paper proposes a model for estimation and classification of karate poses which can be used in virtual karate posture correction and trainings. A pretrained model, PoseNet has been used for pose estimation using the results of which the angles between specific joints are calculated and fed into a K-Nearest Neighbors Classifier to classify the poses. The results obtained show that the model achieves an accuracy of 98.75%.

Human Pose Estimation PoseNet Computer Vision KNN Karate Virtual Trainer