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A Decade of Action Quality Assessment: Largest Systematic Survey of Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

arXiv 2502.02817 ↗First posted 5 Feb 2025cs.AI cs.CVcited by 7

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Abstract (arXiv)

Action Quality Assessment (AQA) -- the ability to quantify the quality of human motion, actions, or skill levels and provide feedback -- has far-reaching implications in areas such as low-cost physiotherapy, sports training, and workforce development. As such, it has become a critical field in computer vision & video understanding over the past decade. Significant progress has been made in AQA methodologies, datasets, & applications, yet a pressing need remains for a comprehensive synthesis of this rapidly evolving field. In this paper, we present a thorough survey of the AQA landscape, systematically reviewing over 200 research papers using the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews & meta-analyses (PRISMA) framework. We begin by covering foundational concepts & definitions, then move to general frameworks & performance metrics, & finally discuss the latest advances in methodologies & datasets. This survey provides a detailed analysis of research trends, performance comparisons, challenges, & future directions. Through this work, we aim to offer a valuable resource for both newcomers & experienced researchers, promoting further exploration & progress in AQA. Data are available at https://haoyin116.github.io/Survey_of_AQA/

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Citing papers per year: 2025: 2; 2026: 5.

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  1. 2025FLEX: A Largescale Multimodal, Multiview Dataset for Learning Structured Representations for Fitness Action Quality Assessmentcited by 1
  2. 2025A Topology-Aware Graph Convolutional Network for Human Pose Similarity and Action Quality Assessmentcited by 0
  3. 2026MLCR: Multi-Level Cue Refinement for Long-Term Multimodal Action Quality Assessmentcited by 0
  4. 2026Two-Stage Multi-Modal Fusion with Adaptive Alignment for Action Quality Assessmentcited by 0
  5. 2026Local Brushstroke Quality Assessment via Vision-Language Feedbackcited by 0
  6. 2026MyoMechanix: Biomechanically-Grounded Compositional Skilled Activity Understanding and Coachingcited by 0
  7. 2026Can Vision-Language Models Judge Olympic Diving? From Reasoning to Scores in Zero-Shot Action Quality Assessmentcited by 0