Calorie Burn Estimator on Stationary Bike using Human Body Pose Detector

During the pandemic, we must maintain our body’s immunity at best. Outdoor activities have been closed; therefore, there are limitations to activities that can be done. A solution to staying healthy during the pandemic is indoor exercise. One type of indoor exercise is regularly riding stationary bikes. We maintain the body’s fitness and burn calories by riding stationary bikes. However, some stationary bikes could not show accurate calories burned; they calculated it only based on speed, resistance, and duration, so people with different weights seem to burn the same amount of calories. Therefore, this paper proposed an additional parameter essential in calorie burning: body weight. We used the human body pose estimator to detect the activity of riding the stationary bike and calculated it by adding the person’s weight. The result shows a difference between the estimated calorie burned and the data directly from the stationary bike. The difference is between 0.0225 to 2.8775. The heavier the person, the more differences in the calories burned. The proposed method helped prove that a person’s weight affects the calories burned while doing an activity, especially riding a stationary bike.