arXiv:2606. 09842v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Applying Human Pose Estimation (HPE) in real world environments remains a challenging task, this paper explores and surveys real time HPE approaches and their limitations in sports analysis for individuals, alongside developing a practical lightweight prototype for real world testing and usage.
By Parth Agrawal, Ronit, Sagar Kumar, Aashish Bhambri
The study presents a vision‑language model pipeline that estimates dynamic, triaxial, bilateral external hand forces during manual material handling tasks using only RGB video and known box mass. By combining text‑guided ROI localization, pretrained vision‑transformer features, and transformer‑based temporal regression, the model achieved root mean square errors of about 4.7–5.6 N for horizontal and mediolateral forces and 10.6–11.0 N for vertical forces across various camera setups. The approach demonstrated that including the handled object as a second ROI and using multi‑camera capture improved peak‑force estimation, showing the feasibility of sensor‑free force estimation for occupational exposure assessment.
By Mohammad Sadra Rajabi, Aanuoluwapo Ojelade, Sunwook Kim, Maury A. Nussbaum
MuyBridge is an on-device system that estimates an athlete’s segmental center of mass (CoM) trajectory from a single phone camera video stream. It combines a compact 2D pose network with a distilled monocular depth network, fusing their outputs through anatomical and physical priors to produce metric CoM estimates without requiring 3D or task‑specific supervision. On the AthletePose3D dataset, MuyBridge achieves 33–41 mm vertical CoM error and 2.3–6.6 % absolute‑relative range error, delivering CoM estimates at 63 FPS on an iPhone 15 with asynchronous depth updates.
By Aidan Bradshaw, Marco Giordano, David Rode, Andreas Habersack, Elif Basokur, Annika Kruse, Markus Tilp, Michele Magno, Peter Wolf, Luca Benini, Christoph Leitner
External hand forces are important inputs to biomechanical analyses of occupational physical exposure and injury risk, yet continuous force measurements during manual material handling (MMH) typically...
arXiv:2608.24384v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Resistance training can be a high risk activity, and safe form is essential to avoiding injury. Laboratory-based movement analysis provides quantitiv...
By Joseph Turner, Jeff Clark, Nawid Keshtmand
Inertial sensors are moving into clothing, from sensorized sportswear to garments instrumented with hundreds of IMUs. Sewn into clothing, a sensor no longer moves rigidly with the body: loose fabric s...