arXiv Computer Vision By Santhiya Rajan, Savio Cardoz

V-JEPA 2 Meets AQA: Phase-Based Scoring and Reference-Based Feedback for Mountain Biking

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The paper presents a system for assessing mountain‑bike jump quality using weak binary labels and candidate feedback. It processes 95 field‑recorded jump clips with frozen V‑JEPA 2 video features, pose and motion measurements, and a transformer to predict a binary score. The model achieves an AUROC of 0.768 and average precision of 0.812 in cross‑validation, but the results highlight limitations in rider‑independent scoring and reliable feedback.

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