A Point Cloud Transformer for Remote Monitoring and Automated Assessment of Physical Rehabilitation Exercises

Rehabilitation exercises are essential in restoring lost physical functions of patients suffering from various diseases (e.g., Parkinson's, back pain). Carrying out these rehabilitation exercises, often prescribed by health experts, is costly, unavailable, and requires expert supervision. The availability of RGBD images and movement/position data of joints along with expert annotation of exercise data has prompted the use of automatic assessment of the quality of rehabilitation exercises, which is cost-effective and can be carried out at home. However, existing approaches do not extract releva