arXiv:2608. 12548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dance imitation integrates motor planning, sensorimotor integration, and social cognition, offering a sensitive framework to characterize motor behavior in autism.
Challenging behaviors including aggression, self-injury, and property destruction are observed in 68% of autistic youth and pose risks to youth and caregivers. These episodes are preceded by agitation...
arXiv:2609.14159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition whose early diagnosis remains challenging because conventional clinical assessments...
The study reports that agitation—an early, subtle sign of distress—can be detected in autistic youth using multimodal wearable sensors. By fusing upper‑body movement, wrist‑worn physiological data, and vocalizations through pretrained foundation models, the authors achieved an AUC of 0.724 at the clinician‑annotated onset of agitation, with audio contributing the most signal. The approach works across 15 participants, showing that individualized agitation is detectable even before the onset and without needing a separate model per child.
Humanoid motion tracking is central to teleoperation and whole-body imitation, yet evaluation often disagrees with what people perceive in videos. Kinematic errors average per-frame pose differences but miss the physical artifacts that matter most, particularly unstable support and incorrect contacts such as foot skating and mistimed touch-downs.
arXiv:2608. 13555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid motion tracking is central to teleoperation and whole-body imitation, yet evaluation often disagrees with what people perceive in videos.
arXiv:2503. 15225v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of autonomous virtual avatars (in extended reality) and robots in human group activities---such as rehabilitation therapy, sports, and manufacturing---is expected to increase as these technologies become more pervasive.
SocioGesture is a real‑time, adaptive system for recognizing social gestures in human‑robot interaction. It employs a compact, confidence‑aware body‑hand skeleton representation and a lightweight dual‑stream model that fuses body motion with hand articulation, enabling low‑latency onboard recognition. The model is trained with occlusion‑aware skeleton corruption to handle missing hands, occluded arms, and unstable keypoints, and it can expand its gesture vocabulary during deployment by saving uncertain interaction segments for offline labeling.
arXiv:2608. 07567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising modality for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) classification, yet existing approaches assume temporally aligned evaluation.
arXiv:2608. 09830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Body-focused repetitive behaviors, such as hair pulling and skin picking, are compulsive motor actions commonly associated with obsessive-compulsive and anxiety disorders.
The Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) is a widely-used upper limb outcome measure in neurorehabilitation, but its ordinal scoring is subjective and suffers from limited sensitivity and specificity. We evaluated whether artificial-intelligence (AI)-based markerless motion capture (MMC), embedded into ARAT assessments during clinical routine, accurately reconstructs upper limb movement and yields valid, objective kinematic metrics carrying clinically meaningful information beyond the ordinal score.
arXiv:2607. 07957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects over 75 million individuals worldwide, yet scalable computational methods for remote behavioral screening remain limited.
arXiv:2607. 13216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans recognize movements effortlessly, even from noisy and complex visual input.