Ask HN: How to determine body position while sleeping?

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Hello, I need help figuring how to tell in which position someone is sleeping using a camera (and ML i guess?), i.e sleeping on left/right side, back, sleeping on your stomach.

Is there such a ting that already exists?

Any help to point me in the right direction is greatly appreciated, thank you!

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I saw a 2 Minute Papers video that talks about the paper [0] I linked below. Basically the AI segments up the human body in to pieces.

Using that data you could create a classifier for either pre-defined postures/positions or let it create its own classes (naive classification, I think?)

Source [1] is a different kind of segmentation.

I think your biggest obstacle will be training sets (assuming you want to use AI/ML). Once you've got training sets, the presence of obstacles (sheets/blankets) might not be so much of an issue.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07371 [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEBgi6QYDhQ [1] https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/12/11/15376

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