arXiv AI

Boosting Automatic Exercise Evaluation Through Musculoskeletal Simulation-Based IMU Data Augmentation

arXiv:2505. 24415v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated evaluation of movement quality can enhance physiotherapeutic treatment and sports training by providing objective, real-time feedback.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21

Beyond Kinematics: Benchmarking Simulation Fidelity for Muscle-Driven Imitation Learning

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 AI
Jul 22

Physical Self-Supervised Learning: IMU Sensing without Manual Labels

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 Computer Vision
Sep 14

PhysioAI: Clinical Knowledge-Guided Semantic Supervision for Skeleton-Based Physiotherapy Action Recognition

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