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:2609.22619v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tracking recovery of walking function requires detecting meaningful gait change across rehabilitation sessions, yet objective 3D measurement remains co...
By Nethmi Jayasinghe, Mihir Parashar, Amit Ranjan Trivedi
The study presents a real‑time musculoskeletal surrogate for children with cerebral palsy, built from OpenSim parameters, joint kinematics, and muscle capacities. Using leave‑one‑subject‑out validation on nine pediatric gait recordings, the surrogate reproduces musculotendon lengths with high accuracy (R² ≈ 0.92–0.95, nRMSE < 8%) and achieves sub‑millisecond inference times, well below the 100 ms interactive‑rehabilitation target. A Monte Carlo credibility pilot reveals that small variations in anthropometry and muscle capacity lead to overconfident 90 % prediction intervals, highlighting the need for improved force modeling and uncertainty quantification.
By Mohammad Arif Ul Alam
The Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) is a widely-used upper limb outcome measure in neurorehabilitation, but its ordinal scoring is subjective and suffers from limited sensitivity and specificity. We evaluated whether artificial-intelligence (AI)-based markerless motion capture (MMC), embedded into ARAT assessments during clinical routine, accurately reconstructs upper limb movement and yields valid, objective kinematic metrics carrying clinically meaningful information beyond the ordinal score.
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
arXiv:2605. 15862v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding adaptive biomechanical systems requires distinguishing observable performance, static multivariate representation, longitudinal displacement, and internal approximation of observed change.
By Jacques Raynal, Pierre Slangen, Elsa Raynal, Jacques Margerit