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arxiv: 2605.16419 · v1 · pith:XSA5AEXEnew · submitted 2026-05-14 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.RO

Agentic Pipeline for Self-Synchronized Multiview Joint Angle Monitoring in Uncalibrated Environments

Juncheng Yu , Lusi A , Haoxuan Xie , Weiming Wang This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CV cs.AIcs.RO
keywords kinematic monitoringmulti-view pose estimationmultimodal large language modelsjoint angle estimationuncalibrated environmentsspinal cord injurymarkerless motion captureagentic pipeline
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An agentic pipeline uses multimodal language models to synchronize two uncalibrated cameras and estimate joint angles for home-based rehabilitation monitoring.

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The paper establishes a method for multi-view joint angle monitoring that avoids hardware calibration and synchronization triggers by relying on multimodal large language models to align video streams and verify outputs automatically. It combines this with monocular 2D pose estimation and an agent-based mechanism to isolate the target subject even when other people or occlusions are present. A sympathetic reader would care because the approach targets daily kinematic tracking for spinal cord injury patients in ordinary home settings, where professional motion-capture systems are impractical. The system then converts the selected 2D poses into joint angles via explicit geometric optimization, producing results validated against a Vicon reference with mean absolute error of 5.97 degrees and Pearson correlation of 0.962.

Core claim

The central claim is that multimodal large language models can drive automatic video synchronization and agent-driven self-verification while an agent-based selection mechanism extracts consistent 2D poses from state-of-the-art monocular estimators, allowing geometric optimization to recover accurate joint angles from uncalibrated two-camera sequences even in the presence of multiple individuals and occlusions.

What carries the argument

The agentic pipeline that uses multimodal large language models to perform automatic video synchronization, self-verification, and target-subject selection before geometric optimization of joint angles.

If this is right

  • Patients can self-deploy the system for daily kinematic monitoring without professional calibration or hardware triggers.
  • Joint angles remain interpretable because they derive from explicit geometric modeling rather than black-box regression.
  • The pipeline maintains consistent subject tracking across views despite other people or temporary occlusions in the scene.
  • Performance reaches MAE of 5.97 degrees and Pearson correlation of 0.962 relative to laboratory-grade motion capture.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same synchronization and selection logic could be tested on longer daily recordings to assess drift over hours rather than short sessions.
  • Replacing one of the two cameras with a smartphone might further lower the barrier to home use while preserving the reported accuracy range.
  • Combining the geometric angle estimates with simple wearable sensors could provide a hybrid check that flags when visual tracking degrades.

Load-bearing premise

Multimodal large language models can reliably perform automatic synchronization, self-verification, and subject selection amid multiple people and occlusions in uncalibrated real-world videos.

What would settle it

Simultaneous recordings from two ordinary cameras and a Vicon system in a home scene containing multiple moving individuals and partial occlusions, where the pipeline's joint-angle outputs show mean absolute error substantially larger than 6 degrees or Pearson correlation below 0.9.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.16419 by Haoxuan Xie, Juncheng Yu, Lusi A, Weiming Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the proposed method. The input RGB frames are first fed into face recognition and anonymization modules to generate privacy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The joint angles from the proposed method and the golden standard from the Vicon system. The black line is the estimated joint angles from the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Representative example of the input and output of the MLLM-driven [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Kinematic monitoring plays a critical role in long-term rehabilitation for patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), where multi-view markerless motion capture methods have shown significant potential. However, owing to the reliance on calibration and the difficulty of achieving multi-view synchronization, their deployment in patient self-deployed environments remains challenging. In this work, we propose an agentic pipeline for self-synchronized multi-view joint angle monitoring in uncalibrated environments using two cameras without hardware triggers. The Multimodal large language models enable automatic video synchronization and agent-driven self-verification. State-of-the-art monocular 2D pose estimation models are employed to extract candidate poses, where an agent-based selection mechanism is then applied to automatically identify and track the target subject, thereby producing consistent 2D poses in the presence of multiple individuals and occlusions. Such 2D poses are optimized to estimate joint angles from uncalibrated multi-view pose sequences, ensuring interpretability through explicit geometric modeling. Validation against Vicon system demonstrated the strong performance, achieving an MAE of $5.97^\circ \pm 2.36^\circ$ and a Pearson correlation coefficient of $0.962 \pm 0.014$. The proposed method is expected to provide a practical, patient self-deployable system to perform daily kinematic monitoring in uncalibrated home environments.

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Referee Report

1 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces an agentic pipeline for self-synchronized multiview joint angle monitoring in uncalibrated environments using two cameras. It leverages multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for automatic video synchronization and agent-driven self-verification, employs state-of-the-art monocular 2D pose estimation with an agent-based selection to handle multiple individuals and occlusions, and uses geometric optimization for joint angle estimation. The approach is validated against a Vicon system, achieving an MAE of 5.97° ± 2.36° and a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.962 ± 0.014, with the goal of enabling practical daily kinematic monitoring for patients with spinal cord injury in home settings.

Significance. If the results hold, this work has significant potential to facilitate accessible, markerless motion capture for long-term rehabilitation monitoring without the need for specialized equipment or calibration. The explicit use of geometric modeling for angle estimation provides interpretability, and the validation against an independent external Vicon benchmark strengthens the claims while maintaining low circularity. Strengths include the quantitative metrics reported and the focus on real-world deployability. However, the effectiveness hinges on the reliability of the MLLM components in complex scenes, which warrants additional validation to fully realize the practical impact.

major comments (1)
  1. [§4 (Experiments and Validation)] §4 (Experiments and Validation): The central validation reports an MAE of 5.97° ± 2.36° and Pearson r = 0.962 ± 0.014 against Vicon, but this end-to-end metric is not accompanied by ablations or separate quantitative assessments of the MLLM-driven synchronization (e.g., temporal frame offset errors) or the agent-based subject selection (e.g., precision/recall in multi-person occluded videos). Since the abstract and methods tie the accuracy directly to these components, and failures here cannot necessarily be mitigated by the downstream optimization, this undermines confidence in the robustness for uncalibrated home environments with potential occlusions and multiple subjects.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The abstract provides limited detail on the specific implementation of the LLM synchronization, agent selection, and optimization steps, which would help readers assess the novelty and reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback and positive assessment of the work's potential for accessible rehabilitation monitoring. We address the major comment on validation below and have revised the manuscript to incorporate additional component-level assessments.

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  1. Referee: The central validation reports an MAE of 5.97° ± 2.36° and Pearson r = 0.962 ± 0.014 against Vicon, but this end-to-end metric is not accompanied by ablations or separate quantitative assessments of the MLLM-driven synchronization (e.g., temporal frame offset errors) or the agent-based subject selection (e.g., precision/recall in multi-person occluded videos). Since the abstract and methods tie the accuracy directly to these components, and failures here cannot necessarily be mitigated by the downstream optimization, this undermines confidence in the robustness for uncalibrated home environments with potential occlusions and multiple subjects.

    Authors: We agree that separate quantitative evaluations of the MLLM synchronization and agent-based subject selection would strengthen claims about robustness in multi-subject and occluded home settings. While the end-to-end Vicon comparison demonstrates overall pipeline performance under realistic conditions, we acknowledge that component-specific metrics provide clearer insight into failure modes. In the revised manuscript, we will add a new subsection in §4 reporting: (1) temporal offset errors for MLLM synchronization against manually annotated ground-truth frame alignments on a held-out video subset, and (2) precision, recall, and F1 scores for the agent-based subject selection on multi-person occluded test sequences. These additions will clarify the contribution of each stage without altering the core end-to-end results. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation uses independent external benchmark and explicit geometric modeling

full rationale

The paper derives joint angles via explicit geometric optimization on 2D poses extracted from monocular estimators, then validates the resulting angles directly against an independent Vicon motion-capture system (MAE 5.97° ± 2.36°, Pearson 0.962 ± 0.014). This external benchmark comparison and geometric formulation do not reduce any reported prediction to a fitted parameter or self-referential definition. No self-citation chains, ansatz smuggling, or renaming of known results appear as load-bearing steps in the abstract or described pipeline. The MLLM components for synchronization and subject selection are methodological inputs whose reliability is asserted but not derived tautologically from the final angle metrics.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The approach depends primarily on assumptions about the reliability of existing AI models rather than introducing new fitted parameters or postulated entities; no free parameters are explicitly described in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption State-of-the-art monocular 2D pose estimation models can extract candidate poses reliably even with multiple subjects and occlusions
    Invoked when describing extraction of 2D poses prior to agent-based selection.
  • domain assumption Multimodal large language models can perform automatic video synchronization and agent-driven self-verification without hardware triggers
    Central premise enabling the self-synchronized pipeline in uncalibrated environments.

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