Inspiration
From the classic game show, Hole in the Wall! Members are required to achieve a certain body posture within a specified time. If they don't they get hit by a wall and fall into water.
What it does
Our app simulates the hole in the wall experience virtually. Combined with well thought body postures that enforce the users to follow daily yoga/exercise routine. A perfect requirement for today's teens, as well as old people since it's easy to understand and follow. Helps health patients to maintain a daily routine. Being a fully interactive application, it’s a unique and fun approach, and encourages good health practices among them.
How we built it
We combined the power of image processing (using openCV) and Unity graphic engine to relive a hole in the wall experience.
Challenges we ran into
Initially, we thought of using body movement detection (and skeleton detection) to implement it. But since this needs to be run on smartphones and had to be run in realtime, we were bound by computational power. We managed to resolve it by using smart openCV filters and optimized human posture segmentation.
We also thought of implementing an augmented reality based system. We put a lot of effort into it but could not achieve it due to hardware limitations (cheap mobile phones) on our side.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Able to do realtime body segmentation and achieve physical user interaction with the application.
What we learned
We had to dwell deep into openCV, AR and Unity and learnt a bunch of new technologies while implementing this project.
What's next for FitAR
We're planning to extend its functionality by integrating AR into the app and optimizing the openCV code for even faster processing (possibly in device).
