The machine vision blues continue just like 2013, but at 10,000,000x the valuations.  It has trouble with the occluded leg & rubber band.  Another problem is double counting.

Another $130 GTX 1050 would help immensely.  A debouncing algorithm can help with double counting, but the lion just has to play with the workout to get it to register.  There's also just facing the camera during this exercise.

After much loathing, finally caved into the idea of a tablet serving as the camera & user interface, while still offloading the pose tracking over the network.  Tablets have been utterly hopeless at finding any practical use for the last 10 years, but have finally come unto their own for computer vision.

Computer vision platforms need a subject facing camera, viewfinder which can be seen from far away, & always have to be on.  That's making tablets perfect & why Facebook, Goog, & Amazon have finally started recycling their failed tablet inventory as the latest round of intelligent assistants.

The 6 year old Asus with a dead camera, dead GPS, marginal wifi, & marginal battery still has a better front facing camera than the webcam.  After much implementation of a network protocol & fixing openpose bugs, the tablet was counting reps with the macbook as a remote compute server.

False positives abounded.  If it detected a relevant pose anywhere in the 5 minutes before starting the workout, it falsely counted it as part of a rep.  It also sagged into the carpet over time, causing the lion to drift out of frame.  There is a long delay in counting, but it's bearable.

The Asus is still the best looking of all the tablets.  The knife edge somehow works better than the fat edge of the ipad pro, although the ipad pro is overall the best gadget ever made in all history.  The Asus looked utterly gigantic when it was new.  It's tiny, now.  The ipad might even be better for the rep counter, if lions weren't keen on finding uses for everything old.