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most citedFusing uncalibrated IMUs and handheld smartphone video to reconstruct knee kinematics

8 citations · 12 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CV2026

Cross-Model Distillation of a Human-Pose Foundation Model from Unannotated Infant Video for Markerless 3D Pose Estimation

R. James Cotton, Divya Joshi, Colleen Peyton

Spontaneous movement is one of the earliest windows onto an infant's neuromotor health, and structured clinical instruments that score it are validated early predictors of cerebral…

cs.CV2026

Biomechanical 3D Body: Self-Supervised Distillation of Biomechanical Pose from a 3D Body Foundation Model

R. James Cotton, J. D. Peiffer, Lucinda Williamson +2

State-of-the-art monocular body recovery methods predict mesh vertices and angles on the corresponding kinematic tree, but their outputs lack biomechanically defined joint angles t…

cs.CV2026

Markerless Motion Capture in Routine Clinical Upper Limb Assessments: Validity and Insights Beyond Ordinal Scoring

Tim Unger, Olivier Lambercy, Roger Gassert +3

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 a…

cs.CV2026

Biomechanics-aware Multi-view Markerless Motion Capture of Dexterous Hand Movements

Pouyan Firouzabadi, J. D. Peiffer, Kunal Shah +4

Markerless motion capture (MMC) techniques have been widely beneficial in biomechanical analysis of human movement; however, application to complex motions of the hand lags other m…

cs.CV2026

Markerless Motion Capture for Biomechanical Whole-Body Kinematic Estimation in Infants

Divya Joshi, J. D. Peiffer, Colleen Peyton +1

arly identification of motor impairment in infancy relies on expert visual assessment of spontaneous movement, motivating the development of automated, objective alternatives. One…

cs.CV2026

Monocular Biomechanical Tracking of Fingers with Inverse Kinematics to Foundation Models

R. James Cotton, Pouyan Firouzabadi, Wendy Murray

Accurate hand and finger tracking from video has significant clinical applications for monitoring activities of daily living and measuring range of motion, yet monocular video appr…

cs.CV2026

Monocular Markerless Motion Capture Enables Quantitative Assessment of Upper Extremity Reachable Workspace

Seth Donahue, J. D. Peiffer, R. Tyler Richardson +7

To validate a clinically accessible approach for quantifying the Upper Extremity Reachable Workspace (UERW) using a single (monocular) camera and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-drive…

cs.CV2026

Calibrated Uncertainty for Trustworthy Clinical Gait Analysis Using Probabilistic Multiview Markerless Motion Capture

Seth Donahue, Irina Djuraskovic, Kunal Shah +3

Video-based human movement analysis holds potential for movement assessment in clinical practice and research. However, the clinical implementation and trust of multi-view markerle…

cs.CV2025

Portable Biomechanics Laboratory: Clinically Accessible Movement Analysis from a Handheld Smartphone

J. D. Peiffer, Kunal Shah, Irina Djuraskovic +6

Movement directly reflects neurological and musculoskeletal health, yet objective biomechanical assessment is rarely available in routine care. We introduce Portable Biomechanics L…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Biomechanical Reconstruction with Confidence Intervals from Multiview Markerless Motion Capture

R. James Cotton, Fabian Sinz

Advances in multiview markerless motion capture (MMMC) promise high-quality movement analysis for clinical practice and research. While prior validation studies show MMMC performs…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Differentiable Biomechanics for Markerless Motion Capture in Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation: A Comparison with Optical Motion Capture

Tim Unger, Arash Sal Moslehian, J. D. Peiffer +5

Marker-based Optical Motion Capture (OMC) paired with biomechanical modeling is currently considered the most precise and accurate method for measuring human movement kinematics. H…

q-bio.QM2024★ 2 cited

A Causal Framework for Precision Rehabilitation

R. James Cotton, Bryant A. Seamon, Richard L. Segal +5

Precision rehabilitation offers the promise of an evidence-based approach for optimizing individual rehabilitation to improve long-term functional outcomes. Emerging techniques, in…

cs.CV2024★ 8 cited

Fusing uncalibrated IMUs and handheld smartphone video to reconstruct knee kinematics

J. D. Peiffer, Kunal Shah, Shawana Anarwala +2

Video and wearable sensor data provide complementary information about human movement. Video provides a holistic understanding of the entire body in the world while wearable sensor…

cs.CV2024

Platypose: Calibrated Zero-Shot Multi-Hypothesis 3D Human Motion Estimation

Paweł A. Pierzchlewicz, Caio O. da Silva, R. James Cotton +1

Single camera 3D pose estimation is an ill-defined problem due to inherent ambiguities from depth, occlusion or keypoint noise. Multi-hypothesis pose estimation accounts for this u…

cs.CV2024

Differentiable Biomechanics Unlocks Opportunities for Markerless Motion Capture

R. James Cotton

Recent developments have created differentiable physics simulators designed for machine learning pipelines that can be accelerated on a GPU. While these can simulate biomechanical…

cs.CV2024

Advancing Monocular Video-Based Gait Analysis Using Motion Imitation with Physics-Based Simulation

Nikolaos Smyrnakis, Tasos Karakostas, R. James Cotton

Gait analysis from videos obtained from a smartphone would open up many clinical opportunities for detecting and quantifying gait impairments. However, existing approaches for esti…

cs.CV2023

Dynamic Gaussian Splatting from Markerless Motion Capture can Reconstruct Infants Movements

R. James Cotton, Colleen Peyton

Easy access to precise 3D tracking of movement could benefit many aspects of rehabilitation. A challenge to achieving this goal is that while there are many datasets and pretrained…