The paper presents a training‑free method for detecting which holds a climber uses in sport climbing videos by leveraging a frozen foundation pose model (Sapiens) that provides fingertip and toe keypoints. Using a simple proximity test, mutual exclusion, and a temporal‑persistence rule, the approach achieves high F_1 scores (up to 90.2%) on the Way Up dataset without any climbing‑specific training, outperforming repurposed pose pipelines. The resulting automatic predictions enable accurate coaching statistics, such as climb time and pace, with Pearson correlations of 1.00 and 0.94 respectively.
By Abu Bakar, Abdullah Aftab, Amir Hamza
arXiv:2606. 24960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tailoring stroke rehabilitation requires assessing how movements are organized, not merely if they succeed.
By Tamim Ahmed, Thanassis Rikakis
The paper presents a system for assessing mountain‑bike jump quality using weak binary labels and candidate feedback. It processes 95 field‑recorded jump clips with frozen V‑JEPA 2 video features, pose and motion measurements, and a transformer to predict a binary score. The model achieves an AUROC of 0.768 and average precision of 0.812 in cross‑validation, but the results highlight limitations in rider‑independent scoring and reliable feedback.
By Santhiya Rajan, Savio Cardoz
The paper introduces PART, a multimodal predictive framework for tennis that combines physiological, training, sleep, questionnaire, jump, and video data from nine collegiate players to assess overall wellness, injury risk, physical capability, and playing style. Using machine learning and deep learning, PART provides holistic athlete assessments and forecasts specific injury risks to body areas such as elbows and knees. Evaluation shows strong performance in predicting wellness and injury risk, with potential benefits for recreational players who often injure themselves due to poor technique.
By Francisco Erramuspe Alvarez, Shobharani Polasa, Weihao Qu, Jay Wang, Ling Zheng
arXiv:2610.32398v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The 3rd WEAR Dataset Challenge asks for an activity label for every one-second window of four unseen participants. Each window has 15 VideoMAEv2 frame...
By Soheil Kooklan
The paper introduces a new benchmark of 345 annotated tennis ball bounces and racket hits across eight video clips featuring diverse viewpoints, including broadcast, fixed elevated, phone, and court-level angles. It evaluates several event detection methods—supervised spotters, zero-shot vision-language models, and a parameter-free arbitration layer called RallyArb—showing that supervised models perform well on broadcast footage but poorly on non-broadcast views, while RallyArb maintains high bounce detection across all viewpoints but struggles with precise hit timing. The dataset, evaluation tools, and frozen predictions are publicly released to support further research.
By David Soeiro-Vuong, Andre-Louis Rochet
arXiv:2608.24555v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Prehospital stroke assessment aims to accurately identify stroke symptoms and make rapid decisions through standardized procedures within an extremel...
By Wentao Yang, Zhenye Xu, Ruoyi Li, Musen Zhang, Yao Guo
arXiv:2606. 31127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To enable personalized, real-time coaching using Augmented Reality glasses or fixed camera setups in domains such as sports, cooking, or music, a system must understand not just what a person does, but how well they execute an activity.
By Bj\"orn Braun, Christian Holz
The paper investigates 12‑class body‑only emotion recognition from skeleton motion using a leave‑performer‑out evaluation, where chance accuracy is 8.3% and a reproduced STGCN++ baseline scores 25.73% Macro‑F1. By ensembling eleven models with orthogonal error modes, the authors achieve 36.80% Macro‑F1, a 43% relative improvement over the baseline. They also introduce a tested explanation suite that demonstrates the ensemble’s decisions rely on motion‑grounded body‑region evidence, aligning strongly with Laban Movement Analysis attributes rather than classical kinematics, while showing diffuse temporal saliency.
By Naoto Nishida, Yoshio Ishiguro
arXiv:2609.38932v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Surface electromyography (sEMG) provides a wearable, camera-free signal for continuous hand-motion inference. Mapping muscle activity to joint kinemati...
By JiaCheng Ge, SiYu Zhang
PairCLIP‑SWA is a single‑backbone deepfake detector that fine‑tunes an OpenCLIP ViT‑L/14 visual tower using a class‑balanced corpus created by CLIP‑similarity‑guided subsampling and then applies stochastic weight averaging over the fine‑tuning trajectory. Trained on the IEEE SP Cup 2025 (DF‑Wild‑Cup) benchmark, the weight‑averaged model achieves 97.04 % accuracy, 98.64 % AU‑ROC and a 4.07 % equal error rate—outperforming the best published three‑backbone ensemble. The study shows that averaging stabilizes validation performance, prevents misranking on disjoint test sets, and that CLIP pre‑training, rather than ensembling, is the key driver of accuracy.
By Md. Nakib, Sudipto Sarkar, A. J. A. Jubayer Talukder, Mohammad Ariful Haque
arXiv:2607. 27565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pattern-recognition control promises a myoelectric prosthesis that responds to many intended gestures rather than one or two, but the promise has stayed in the laboratory.
By Jethro Odeyemi, W. J. Zhang