Development of the Real-time Lifting Assessment tool based on Computer Vision

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NIOSH lifting equation (RNLE) is the most widely used observational tool to assess the risk of low back pain associated with lifting and lowering tasks in the workplace. Although the RNLE is cost effective, it is time consuming to process and analyze the resulting data. Moreover, it is impossible to detect the risk factors of low back pain via a single application of the RNLE due to the fact that today's manual material handling jobs have evolved from single tasks to multiple and varying tasks. Thus, the purpose of the proposed international collaboration is to develop a robust, non-intrusive, straightforward, computer vision based RNLE assessment tool in order to construct a lifting assessment that performs analyses over prolonged periods. We expect that the result of this project will play an increasingly important role in the improvement of living and working conditions in Canada and Korea.