A review of computer vision-based approaches for physical rehabilitation and assessment

The computer vision community has extensively researched the area of human motion analysis, which primarily focuses on pose estimation, activity recognition, pose or gesture recognition and so on. However for many applications, like monitoring of functional rehabilitation of patients with musculo sk...

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Published in:Multimedia systems 2022-02, Vol.28 (1), p.209-239
Main Authors: Debnath, Bappaditya, O’Brien, Mary, Yamaguchi, Motonori, Behera, Ardhendu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abnormalities
Activity recognition
Computer Communication Networks
Computer Graphics
Computer Science
Computer vision
Cryptology
Data Storage Representation
Evaluation
Gesture recognition
Human motion
Monitoring
Multimedia Information Systems
Operating Systems
Pose estimation
Regular Paper
Rehabilitation
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Summary:The computer vision community has extensively researched the area of human motion analysis, which primarily focuses on pose estimation, activity recognition, pose or gesture recognition and so on. However for many applications, like monitoring of functional rehabilitation of patients with musculo skeletal or physical impairments, the requirement is to comparatively evaluate human motion. In this survey, we capture important literature on vision-based monitoring and physical rehabilitation that focuses on comparative evaluation of human motion during the past two decades and discuss the state of current research in this area. Unlike other reviews in this area, which are written from a clinical objective, this article presents research in this area from a computer vision application perspective. We propose our own taxonomy of computer vision-based rehabilitation and assessment research which are further divided into sub-categories to capture novelties of each research. The review discusses the challenges of this domain due to the wide ranging human motion abnormalities and difficulty in automatically assessing those abnormalities. Finally, suggestions on the future direction of research are offered.
ISSN:0942-4962
1432-1882
DOI:10.1007/s00530-021-00815-4