arXiv:2507. 21018v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated assessment of human motion plays a vital role in rehabilitation, enabling objective evaluation of patient performance and progress.
By Ali Ismail-Fawaz, Maxime Devanne, Stefano Berretti, Jonathan Weber, Germain Forestier
arXiv:2202. 14019v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Maintaining proper form while exercising is important for preventing injuries and maximizing muscle mass gains.
By Paritosh Parmar, Amol Gharat, Helge Rhodin
arXiv:2607. 04842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Home-based physiotherapy is performed without supervision, which leads to incorrect execution and motivates systems that assess movement automatically from inertial measurement units (IMUs).
By Andreas Spilz, Heiko Oppel, Michael Munz
arXiv:2607. 09402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning models dependency on large-scale inertial datasets presents a significant bottleneck in inertial sensor-based classification tasks, such as human activity recognition and smartphone location recognition.
By Ofir Kruzel, Itzik Klien
arXiv:2607. 08725v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in 3D human pose estimation has made markerless recovery of skeletal motion increasingly accurate and scalable.
By Ayda Eghbalian, Kevin Desai
arXiv:2604.01997v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Gait analysis provides an objective characterization of locomotor function and is widely used to support diagnosis and rehabilitation monitoring ac...
By Elisa Motta, Marta Lorenzini, Clara Mouawad, Alberto Ranavolo, Mariano Serrao, Arash Ajoudani
The paper compares two leading motion‑imitation reinforcement learning pipelines—HyFyDy, which uses detailed musculotendon modeling, and MuJoCo, which focuses on computational speed. Using the same human motion‑capture and EMG data, both pipelines reproduce kinematics similarly, but HyFyDy’s muscle activation predictions align more closely with experimental EMG (RMSE 0.164, r = 0.4) than MuJoCo’s (RMSE 0.344, r = 0.11). The authors conclude that HyFyDy’s higher physiological realism makes it currently more suitable for musculoskeletal modeling, though both systems need further development for GPU‑parallelizable environments and robotic assistive‑device design.
By Ayah G. Ahmad, Claire E. Borden, Maegan Tucker
arXiv:2607. 18361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks have become a promising approach for IMU-based sensing, but their scalability is fundamentally limited by costly labeled data and poor robustness to heterogeneous devices, placements, and users.
By Yuyang Leng (Richard), Renyuan Liu (Richard), Shaohan Hu (Richard), Peijun Zhao (Richard), Chun-Fu Chen (Richard), Songqing Chen, Shuochao Yao
arXiv:2608.29928v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: State-of-the-art monocular body recovery methods predict mesh vertices and angles on the corresponding kinematic tree, but their outputs lack biomechan...
By R. James Cotton, J. D. Peiffer, Lucinda Williamson, John Leske, Georgios Pavlakos
PhysioAI introduces a clinical knowledge‑guided framework that injects structured physiotherapy knowledge into skeleton‑based action recognition models. By combining graph‑based spatiotemporal modeling with semantic anchors derived from a Clinical Knowledge Dictionary encoded via a frozen CLIP model, PhysioAI improves training of skeleton representations while requiring only skeleton inputs at inference. In subject‑disjoint evaluations, it outperforms existing methods on KiMoRe, Hard‑67, and UI‑PRMD benchmarks, achieving up to 99.03% accuracy on KiMoRe overall.
By Jie Cao, Euijoon Ahn, Anwar Hassan, Jinman Kim
arXiv:2607. 04820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoding hand kinematics from surface electromyography (EMG) is a core challenge in wearable biosignal processing with clinical relevance for prosthetic control and motor rehabilitation.
By Sofia Gilardini, Chenfei Ma, Kianoush Nazarpour
arXiv:2608. 15621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with self-administered wearables, such as at-home rehabilitation and exercise monitoring, often requires reattaching inertial measurement units (IMUs) across sessions.
By Seungyeol Baek, Yoonbyung Chai, Yonghyeon Lee, Sungjoon Choi, Sungho Suh