Pose2Muscle is a pose-driven framework that estimates discrete muscle activity states without requiring surface electromyography (sEMG) during inference. It reformulates muscle estimation as a structured prediction problem, using multi-scale spatio-temporal attention and a directed acyclic graph-based decoder to capture motion patterns and maintain multiple candidate hypotheses. The authors introduce the PoseEMG-43 dataset, comprising 2,992 movement instances from 43 daily-life actions performed by 14 participants, and demonstrate that Pose2Muscle outperforms baseline methods with high accuracy and correlation metrics.
By Yuepeng Chen, Jiehong Shi, Kaili Zheng, Boyi Zhang, Chenyi Guo, Ji Wu, Xiangling Fu
MyoMechanix is a multimodal dataset and framework for action quality assessment that incorporates muscle activity and other physiological signals alongside visual data. It contains over 7,500 samples of 20 weight‑loaded actions from 38 subjects, with synchronized RGB video, 3D pose, sEMG, and additional signals. The accompanying Fitness Knowledge Graph structures expert annotations into relationships among actions, phases, key steps, errors, and corrective feedback, enabling compositional scoring and interpretable assessment through the CUBIST engine. The project also introduces MyoMechanix‑AQA, MyoMechanix‑VideoQA, and a novel MyoMechanix‑Video2EMG task, demonstrating that multimodal sensing and structured representations improve performance, interpretability, and error attribution.
By Hao Yin, Paritosh Parmar, Lijun Gu, Lin Xu, Tianxiao Guo, Xiujin Liu, Tianyou Zheng, Yang Zhang, Weiwei Fu
Muscle activity is fundamental to human movement, and understanding its patterns is critical for injury prevention and rehabilitation. Conventional muscle activity monitoring relies on specialized sen...
arXiv:2608. 08736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fitness Action Quality Assessment (AQA) is important for intelligent sports training, yet the capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in this setting remain underexplored.
By Kaili Zheng, Kaiwen Wang, Xun Zhu, Qingyuan Yang, Chenyi Guo, Ji Wu
arXiv:2609.35726v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Automated quality assessment of rehabilitation exercises relies heavily on accurate human pose estimation from video data. Although numerous RGB-ba...
By Miriama J\'ano\v{s}ov\'a, Andreas Lang, Petra Budikova, Jan Sedmidubsky
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.
By Andreas Spilz, Heiko Oppel, Michael Munz