Pose Classification using OpenPose from OpenCV library.

To classify whether the shot played in the given video is backhand or forehand.

• Clone this github repo to perform Table-Tennis shot classification on your own.
• Ensure that you have met all the requirements mentioned at the end of this Readme file.
• Open your terminal in the cloned folder and run python3 Pose_Estimation.py
• You will get your required output!!!

User must provide inputs as follows:

video_path = # relative path or absolute path to your final data
video_side = # Among two, player of which side is your concern (say left/right).
hand_type = # which hand is dominant while taking shot (say lefty/righty).

You will get output as: Video of Backhand shot or Video of Forehand shot

1. Take 20 frames of video and crop it to just focus on player of one side.
2. Using OpenPose pose estimation technique in OpenCV library, I estimated the keypoints of body (as shown below) using heatMap technique for each frame and collected them for all frames which serves as the data of one sample (here it is video).

BODY_PARTS_C = { "Nose": 0, "Neck": 1, "RShoulder": 2, "RElbow": 3, "RWrist": 4, "LShoulder": 5, "LElbow": 6, "LWrist": 7, "RHip": 8, "LHip": 11}

3. I have created four functions (models) where each trains on extracted data from videos of particular criteria. Since we have video_side = left or right (2 options) and hand_type = lefty or righty (2 options), in total there are 4 possibilities and hence 4 models, each dealing with a particular scenario.
4. Each model consists of 6 robust machine learning classifiers (XGBoost, LogisticRegression, MLPClassifier, ExtraTreesClassifier, RandomForestClassifier, and KNeighborsClassifer) which predict some values in between 0 and 1 (a probabilistic prediction) for a given video sample. Predictions of all 6 models are stacked and again feed into a meta-learner (which is either XGBClassifier or LogisticRegression) that learns how to predict output (basically a stacking ensemble).
5. Now the output from this meta-learner is final output that says whether the shot is backhand or forehand.

• Link to Complete Jupyter Notebook
• Data - Video Files
• Extracted Video Data in .npz compressed format
• Pretrained Models
• Meta Models

1. Open CV
2. Scikit-Learn
3. Numpy
4. Pandas
5. Matplotlib
6. Pickle