Improving Posture with AI

I have awful posture, and I find it difficult to consciously remind myself to sit up straight. I thought there might be a way to build a simple tool that could alert me if my posture was poor.

Inspired by the work done with PoseNet by the Google Creative Lab, I decided to use Google's Teachable Machine tool to build a model that classifies my posture as either good or bad, layer on a simple web UI to make it useful, and have Keanu judge my posture until sitting up straight becomes a habit.

The goal was to make a tool that allows anyone to train a model on their unique posture, camera setup etc., plug that model into the web tool, and receive real-time notification of poor posture via a simple (and fun) visualization. Slouch and you'll disappoint Keanu; sit up straight to get his approval!