Action Quality Assessment

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Action quality assessment studies how to judge the correctness, proficiency, or value of human actions, from rehabilitation exercises and sports techniques to tactical decisions in team games. Methods use video and pose sequences, temporal and phase-based modeling, self-supervised representations, multimodal fusion, and sometimes wearable sensors to predict scores, rank performers, or locate errors. Recent work also explores vision-language models and language-based feedback, but fine-grained judgments remain difficult for these models, and explanations need to be grounded in reliable visual or sensor evidence. A central challenge is making assessments robust to camera views, missing or noisy modalities, and differences between action types while keeping feedback interpretable and useful to human reviewers.

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  1. Strategic Multi-Agent Learning for Interpretable Action Valuation of All Players in Football

    Oct 5, 2026Kenjiro Ide, Taiga Someya, Kohei Kawaguchi +1Sequential Decision MakingInterpretability in RL

    Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. · Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. · Department of Economics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China. +1

  2. Impact of Patient Orientation in Single- and Multi-View Camera Environments for AI-based Rehabilitation Monitoring

    Sep 28, 2026Miriama Jánošová, Andreas Lang, Petra Budikova +13D Human Pose EstimationHuman Pose Estimation

    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic · TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany · VisionCraft, Brno, Czech Republic

  3. Skill Profiling with Attributable Reasoning (SPAR): A Wearable Analysis System for Boxing

    Sep 25, 2026Nibraas Khan, Hanchen David Wang, Enya Bullard +5Action Quality AssessmentSports Analytics

    Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA · Department of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA · Independent Researcher +2

  4. Can Vision-Language Models Judge Olympic Diving? From Reasoning to Scores in Zero-Shot Action Quality Assessment

    Sep 16, 2026Henry O. Velesaca, David Freire-Obregon, Luigi Miranda +1VLM EvaluationAction Quality Assessment

    ESPOL Polytechnic University, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador · Software Engineering Department, Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC-UGR), University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain · SIANI, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain +1

  5. MyoMechanix: Biomechanically-Grounded Compositional Skilled Activity Understanding and Coaching

    Aug 26, 2026Hao Yin, Paritosh Parmar, Lijun Gu +6Action Quality AssessmentMultimodal Understanding

    School of Biomedical Engineering (Suzhou), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China · Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China · Arexeni Research and Technologies Inc. +3

  6. Moving Beyond More Views: Redundancy-Aware Ego-Exo Fusion for Proficiency Estimation

    Aug 26, 2026Xu Dong, Wanqing Li, Anthony Adeyemi-Ejeye +1Action Quality AssessmentMulti-View Feature Fusion

    University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom · University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

  7. Markerless Pose Estimation for Resistance Training Technique Assessment

    Aug 25, 2026Joseph Turner, Jeff Clark, Nawid KeshtmandAction Quality AssessmentHuman Pose Estimation

    School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol, UK

  8. H-VAEP and H-xT: Valuing Offensive On-the-Ball Actions in Handball by Estimating Probabilities

    Aug 13, 2026Julius Broermann, Oliver Müller, Michael Döring +1Action Quality AssessmentSports Analytics

    Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany · SG Flensburg-Handewitt, Flensburg, Germany

  9. FitAQA: A Benchmark of Fitness Action Quality Assessment for Multimodal Large Language Models

    Aug 9, 2026Kaili Zheng, Kaiwen Wang, Xun Zhu +3Multimodal Large Language ModelsAction Quality Assessment

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University · Xinjiang Region Sports Science Research Center · College of AI, Tsinghua University +1

  10. PhaseAware: Interpretable Human-in-the-Loop Rehabilitation Scoring with Boundary Monitoring

    Jul 22, 2026Yankai Zheng, Yuhe Liu, Yuxin Ma +8Interpretable MLHuman-in-the-Loop Evaluation

    Department of Medical Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China · Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China · School of Future Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China +2

  11. MoAKE: Toward Unified All-in-One Action Quality Assessment via Mixture of Action Knowledge Experts

    Jul 22, 2026Huangbiao Xu, Huanqi Wu, Xiao Ke +3Mixture-of-Experts ModelsAction Quality Assessment

    Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Networking Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China · Engineering Research Center of Big Data Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou 350108, China · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

  12. Quality Action Assurance: Multimodal Verification of Examiner Claims in VR OSCEs

    Jul 21, 2026Harry Rogers, Sally Shiels, Ashley Tomlinson +5Claim VerificationAction Quality Assessment

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  13. Two-Stage Multi-Modal Fusion with Adaptive Alignment for Action Quality Assessment

    Jul 8, 2026Kanglei Zhou, Ruizhi Cai, Xinning Wang +4Multimodal RobustnessCross-Modal Alignment

    Dept. of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · State Key Lab of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing, China · Dept. of Rheumatology and Immunology, Children’s Hospital, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China

  14. Cross-view Multimodal Vision-Based Assessment Framework for Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Training

    Jun 26, 2026Francis Xiatian Zhang, Hao Yao, Shengxuan Chen +4Multimodal RobustnessHealthcare

    Department of Computer Science, Durham University, UK · Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, UK · Ningbo Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ningbo, China +2

  15. Latent Visual Diffusion Reasoning with Monte Carlo Tree Search

    Jun 26, 2026Xirui Teng, Nan Xi, Junsong YuanLatent Visual ReasoningVisually Grounded Reasoning

    Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China · Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, USA · University at Buffalo, Buffalo NY, USA

  16. MLCR: Multi-Level Cue Refinement for Long-Term Multimodal Action Quality Assessment

    May 9, 2026Qiqi Li, Pengfei Wang, Hongyu Chen +1Multimodal FusionAction Quality Assessment

    Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies (QAAS), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310007, China · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310007, China · School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310007, China +3

  17. Parameter-Efficient Multi-View Proficiency Estimation: From Discriminative Classification to Generative Feedback

    May 5, 2026Edoardo Bianchi, Antonio LiottaMulti-View LearningAction Quality Assessment

    Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

  18. LIMSSR: LLM-Driven Sequence-to-Score Reasoning under Training-Time Incomplete Multimodal Observations

    May 1, 2026Huangbiao Xu, Huanqi Wu, Xiao Ke +1Missing-Modality LearningMultimodal Reasoning

    Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Networking Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China · Engineering Research Center of Big Data Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou 350108, China · Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  19. Can Vision Language Models Judge Action Quality? An Empirical Evaluation

    Apr 9, 2026Miguel Monte e Freitas, Rui Henriques, Ricardo Rei +1Action Quality AssessmentVision-Language Models

    Sword Health · Instituto Superior T´ecnico, Universidade de Lisboa · INESC-ID

  20. How good was my shot? Quantifying Player Skill Level in Table Tennis

    Mar 26, 2026Akihiro Kubota, Tomoya Hasegawa, Ryo Kawahara +1Action Quality Assessment

    Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  21. BriMA: Bridged Modality Adaptation for Multi-Modal Continual Action Quality Assessment

    Feb 22, 2026Kanglei Zhou, Chang Li, Qingyi Pan +1Action Quality AssessmentMultimodal Robustness

    Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University · Department of Statistics and Data Science, Tsinghua University

  22. Continual Action Quality Assessment via Adaptive Manifold-Aligned Graph Regularization

    Oct 8, 2025Kanglei Zhou, Qingyi Pan, Xingxing Zhang +4Continual LearningAction Quality Assessment

    Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Department of Statistics and Data Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Institute for AI, BNRist Center, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint ML Center, THBI Lab, Tsinghua University +3

  23. Domain Knowledge-Informed Self-Supervised Representations for Workout Form Assessment

    Feb 28, 2022Paritosh Parmar, Amol Gharat, Helge RhodinContrastive LearningAction Quality Assessment

    University of British Columbia · FlexAI Inc.