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
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:2608. 12145v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous rehabilitation systems must not only recognize human motion but also provide structured feedback to support users without continuous therapist supervision.
By Lara Pereira, Jo\~ao Ruivo Paulo, Pedro Santos, Paulo Peixoto
arXiv:2607. 02611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs) require continuous ergonomic assessments.
By Xuhan Zhang, Zhuangzhuang Dai, Luis J. Mans, Victor Chang
arXiv:2609.18406v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recovering 3D human body motion from video is important for applications such as rehabilitation assessment and sports performance evaluation. For prost...
By Yilin Wen, Kechuan Dong, Fumiya Suginaka, Ken Endo, Yusuke Sugano
Recovering 3D human body motion from video is important for applications such as rehabilitation assessment and sports performance evaluation. For prosthesis users, this requires capturing both natural...
This scoping review examined 117 studies on video-based markerless motion capture, most published from 2024 onward and focused on healthy adults walking in laboratories. The studies identified five main pipeline architectures, but most reported only raw joint angles without biomechanical refinement, achieving sagittal lower‑limb agreement of about 5–6°, which falls short of clinical acceptability. Validation of out‑of‑plane kinematics, kinetics, and performance in older or pathological populations was rare, and emerging computer‑vision techniques such as foundation‑model mesh recovery and differentiable inverse kinematics were largely absent from validated work.
By Florian Delaplace (LAMHESS, CHU), Elodie Piche (LAMHESS), Fr\'ed\'eric Chorin (IUF, LAMHESS), Raphael Zory (IUF, LAMHESS)
arXiv:2608. 19480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human pose estimation has advanced significantly due to the development of deep learning models, increased data availability, and improved computing resources.
By Luis F. Gomez, Julian Fierrez, Roberto Daza, Ruben Tolosana, Aythami Morales, Gonzalo Garrido, Javier Rueda, Enrique Navarro
arXiv:2609.09670v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Monocular pose estimation enables low-cost gait analysis but is sensitive to missing keypoints caused by occlusion, detection errors, or efficiency-dri...
By Shubham Jariwala
The study investigates how well a single consumer earbud IMU can estimate 3D body pose and whether adding foot IMUs improves accuracy. Using a multimodal capture pipeline with RGB‑D video, an AirPods head IMU, and Striv insole IMUs, the authors benchmark pose estimation across various motions and train recurrent models (IMUPoser and MobilePoser). Results show that a head IMU alone achieves 79.0 mm rigid‑MPJPE and 0.809 macro‑F1 for foot contact, while adding foot IMUs does not significantly improve pose and can even degrade performance due to insole orientation errors.
DirtyMoCap is a marker‑layout‑free framework that converts unordered, noisy optical motion capture markers into a fixed set of proxy anchors representing skeletal joints and body surface points. Using a recurrent sliding‑window architecture to track these anchors and a custom differentiable Gauss‑Newton solver to fit the SMPL‑H model, the method learns adaptive observation confidence, smoothness, and prior weights end‑to‑end. Experiments show that DirtyMoCap generalizes across arbitrary marker configurations, outperforms configuration‑specific baselines in joint and vertex accuracy, and achieves up to a 100× speedup over standard PyTorch implementations, enabling the creation of a temporally coherent Kung Fu motion dataset.
By Long Wang, Shuting Zhao, Shen Yan, Siyuan Yu, Xiaoben Li, Zeyu Cai, Yumeng Hou, Yuliang Xiu
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