Awesome Action Quality Assessment (AQA)

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Survey list

Venue / Year	Title	Project / Code
	A Comprehensive Survey of Action Quality Assessment: Method and Benchmark (Survey, Benchmark)	🌐
	A Decade of Action Quality Assessment: Largest Systematic Survey of Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions (Survey)	🌐
	Vision-Based Human Action Quality Assessment: A Systematic Review (Survey)
	A Survey of Video-Based Action Quality Assessment (Survey)
	A Survey of Vision-Based Human Action Evaluation Methods (Survey)

Reference list (sorted by year → venue → title)

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Venue / Year	Title	Project / Code	New Dataset (modality)
	MCMOE: Completing Missing Modalities with Mixture of Experts for Incomplete Multimodal Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Incomplete Multi-Modal Learning)
	UIL-AQA: Uncertainty-Aware Clip-Level Interpretable Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Interpretable Feedback, Uncertainty, Long-Term AQA, Transformer)
	STAR Block: Adaptive spatio-temporal recalibration for action quality assessment (Sports)
	SkillNet: Human Actions Assessment via Human-AI Collaboration (Skill Assessment; Human-AI Collaboration)
	A Contrastive Video Language Multimodal Method for Teacher Action Quality Assessment (Skill Assessment; Multi-Modal AQA, Contrastive Learning, Teaching)		TAQA RGB
	TaiChi-AQA: A Dataset and Framework for Action Quality Assessment and Visual Analysis (Sports)		TaiChi-AQA RGB
	CaFlow: Enhancing Long-Term Action Quality Assessment with Causal Counterfactual Flow (Sports; Causality, Long-Term AQA)
	DanceFix: An Exploration in Group Dance Neatness Assessment through Fixing Abnormal Challenges of Human Pose (Skill Assessment; Dance, Multi-Modal AQA)		DNV RGB
	Human-Activity AGV Quality Assessment: A Benchmark Dataset and an Objective Evaluation Metric (Sports)		Human-AGVQA RGB
	BASKET: A Large-Scale Video Dataset for Fine-Grained Skill Estimation (Skill Assessment; Basketball)		BASKET RGB
	ExpertAF: Expert Actionable Feedback from Video (Sports; Interpretable Feedback, Multi-Modal AQA, Foundation Model)	🌐
	Language-Guided Audio-Visual Learning for Long-Term Sports Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Long-Term AQA)
	Achieving Procedure-Aware Instructional Video Correlation Learning under Weak Supervision from A Collaborative Perspective (Sports; Contrastive AQA)
	Learning Skill-Attributes for Transferable Assessment in Video (Skill Assessment; Multi-Modal AQA, Foundation Model)	🌐
	Action Quality Assessment Via Hierarchical Pose-Guided Multi-Stage Contrastive Regression (Sports; Contrastive AQA)		FineDiving-Pose RGB
	PHI: Bridging Domain Shift in Long-Term Action Quality Assessment Via Progressive Hierarchical Instruction (Sports; Domain Shift, Long-Term AQA)
	Human-Centric Fine-Grained Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Contrastive AQA)		AQA-7-HM RGB MTL-AQA-HM Mask
	A Teacher Action Quality Assessment Method Based on Label Constraint Strategy (Skill Assessment; Contrastive Learning, Teaching)		TTAQA RGB
	Decoupling Representations with Quantized Vectors for Semi-Supervised Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Semi-Supervised AQA)
	Adaptive Spatiotemporal Graph Transformer Network for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; GNN, Long-Term AQA)
	Pose-Guided Transformer for Fine-Grained Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Pose, Fine-Grained AQA)
	Rhythmer: Ranking-Based Skill Assessment with Rhythm-Aware Transformer (Skill Assessment; Ranking)
	Visual-Semantic Alignment Temporal Parsing for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA)
	Comprehensive Action Quality Assessment through Multi-Branch Modeling (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA)
	Quality-Guided Vision-Language Learning for Long-Term Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Long-Term AQA)
	Scaled Background Swap: Video Augmentation for Action Quality Assessment with Background Debiasing (Sports; Data Augmentation, Debiasing)
	Adaptive Frequency-Aware Network for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Baduanjin)		BDJ RGB
	Learning Referee Evaluation and Assessing Action Quality from Coarse to Fine in Diving Sport (Sports; Diving, Contrastive AQA)
	Interpretable Two-Stage Action Quality Assessment Via 3D Human Pose Estimation and Dynamic Feature Alignment (Sports; Interpretable Feedback, Pose, TaiChi)
	Scene-Aware Contrastive Regression for Multi-Person Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Contrastive AQA, Multi-Person AQA)		MELO RGB
	FLEX: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Multi-Action Dataset for Fitness Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Weight Lifting)	🌐	FLEX RGB
	Continual Action Quality Assessment Via Adaptive Manifold-Aligned Graph Regularization (Sports; Continual AQA)
	Fineskiing: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Skiing Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Interpretable Feedback)		FineSkiing RGB
	SkillSight: Efficient First-Person Skill Assessment with Gaze (Skill Assessment)	🌐
	Explainable Action Form Assessment by Exploiting Multimodal Chain-Of-Thoughts Reasoning (Sports; Interpretable Feedback, Foundation Model, Multi-Modal AQA)		CoT-AFA RGB
	Attention-Driven Multimodal Alignment for Long-Term Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Long-Term AQA)
	Finecausal: A Causal-Based Framework for Interpretable Fine-Grained Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Interpretable Feedback, Causality, Contrastive AQA)
	Vaqa-SS: Vision-Based Action Quality Assessment for Style-Based Skiing (Sports; Skiing)		Skiing-6 RGB
	Enhancing Long-Term Action Quality Assessment: A Dual-Modality Dataset and Causal Cross-Modal Framework for Trampoline Gymnastics (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Causality, Trampoline)	🌐	Trampoline-AQA RGB
	I3D-AE-LSTM: A 2-Stream Autoencoder for Action Quality Assessment Using A Newly Created Cricket Batsman Video Dataset (Sports; Cricket)		UJ-AQA-CricketVision RGB
	Collaborative Weakly Supervised Video Correlation Learning for Procedure-Aware Instructional Video Analysis (Sports; Instructional Video, Weak Supervision)
	Dancemvp: Self-Supervised Learning for Multi-Task Primitive-Based Dance Performance Assessment Via Transformer Text Prompting (Skill Assessment; Dance, Multi-Modal AQA)
	2M-AF: A Strong Multi-Modality Framework for Human Action Quality Assessment with Self-Supervised Representation Learning (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Self-Supervised)
	EgoExoLearn: A Dataset for Bridging Asynchronous Ego-And Exo-Centric View of Procedural Activities in Real World (Sports; Egocentric)		EgoExoLearn RGB
	FineParser: A Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Action Parser for Human-Centric Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Contrastive AQA)		FineDiving-HM
	Narrative Action Evaluation with Prompt-Guided Multimodal Interaction (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Narrative Action Evaluation, Video Captioning, MTL-AQA (re-annotated), FineGym (re-annotated))
	Cofinal: Enhancing Action Quality Assessment with Coarse-to-Fine Instruction Alignment (Sports; Instruction-Tuning, Domain Shift, Long-Term AQA)
	Procedure-Aware Action Quality Assessment: Datasets and Performance Evaluation (Sports)		FineDiving+ RGB
	GAIA: Rethinking Action Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Videos (Sports; AIGC AQA, Benchmark)		GAIA RGB
	LucidAction: A Hierarchical and Multi-Model Dataset for Comprehensive Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Multi-View, Curriculum Learning)		LucidAction RGB
	Multimodal Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Audio-Visual, Fusion)
	Self-Supervised Sub-Action Parsing Network for Semi-Supervised Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Semi-Supervised AQA)
	EGCN++: A New Fusion Strategy for Ensemble Learning in Skeleton-Based Rehabilitation Exercise Assessment (Healthcare; Rehabilitation, GCN)
	EgoExo-Fitness: Towards Egocentric and Exocentric Full-Body Action Understanding (Sports; Egocentric AQA)		EgoExo-Fitness RGB
	MAGR: Manifold-Aligned Graph Regularization for Continual Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Continual AQA, Benchmark)
	RICA2: Rubric-Informed, Calibrated Assessment of Actions (Skill Assessment; Interpretable Feedback, Uncertainty)	🌐
	Semi-Supervised Teacher-Reference-Student Architecture for Action Quality Assessment (Skill Assessment; Semi-Supervised AQA)
	Vision-Language Action Knowledge Learning for Semantic-Aware Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA)
	Multi-Stage Contrastive Regression for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Contrastive AQA, Multi-Stage Modeling)
	Which Is the Better Teacher Action? A New Ranking Model and Dataset (Skill Assessment; Ranking, Teaching)
	Continual Action Assessment Via Task-Consistent Score-Discriminative Feature Distribution Modeling (Sports; Continual AQA)
	Kinematic Diversity and Rhythmic Alignment in Choreographic Quality Transformers for Dance Quality Assessment (Skill Assessment; Dance, Multi-Modal AQA)		OptiTrack RGB
	Adaptive Stage-Aware Assessment Skill Transfer for Skill Determination (Skill Assessment; Skill Transfer)
	Interpretable Long-Term Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Interpretable Feedback, Long-Term AQA)
	An Attention-Based Adaptive Spatial--Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Long-Video Ergonomic Risk Assessment (Skill Assessment; Ergonomics, GCN)
	TechCoach: Towards Technical-Point-Aware Descriptive Action Coaching (Sports; Interpretable Feedback, Action Coaching, DescCoach)		EE4D-DescCoach RGB
	FineRehab: A Multi-Modality and Multi-Task Dataset for Rehabilitation Analysis (Healthcare; Multi-Modal AQA)	🌐	FineRehab RGB-D
	Hierarchical NeuroSymbolic Approach for Comprehensive and Explainable Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Interpretable Feedback, Neuro-Symbolic, Diving, Temporal Segmentation, Action Recognition)
	Two-Path Target-Aware Contrastive Regression for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Contrastive AQA)
	Auto-Encoding Score Distribution Regression for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Uncertainty)
	An Expert-Knowledge-Based Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleton-Based Physical Rehabilitation Exercises Assessment (Healthcare; Rehabilitation, GCN)
	Automatic Assessment of Upper Extremity Function and Mobile Application for Self-Administered Stroke Rehabilitation (Healthcare; Rehabilitation, Multi-Modal AQA)
	PECoP: Parameter Efficient Continual Pretraining for Action Quality Assessment (Skill Assessment; Continual AQA, Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning, Self-Supervised Pretraining, Domain Shift, Adapter)		PD4T RGB
	Skating-Mixer: Long-Term Sport Audio-Visual Modeling with Mlps (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Figure Skating)		FS1000 RGB
	A Figure Skating Jumping Dataset for Replay-Guided Action Quality Assessment (Sports)		RFSJ RGB
	Localization-Assisted Uncertainty Score Disentanglement Network for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Figure Skating)		FineFS RGB
	LOGO: A Long-Form Video Dataset for Group Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multi-Modal AQA, Long-Term AQA, Multi-Person AQA)		LOGO RGB
	Automatic Modelling for Interactive Action Assessment (Healthcare)
	Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Parsing Network for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Fine-Grained AQA)
	A Video-Based Augmented Reality System for Human-In-The-Loop Muscle Strength Assessment of Juvenile Dermatomyositis (Healthcare; Human-in-the-Loop)		JDM RGB
	Attention-Guided Deep Learning Framework for Movement Quality Assessment (Healthcare; Rehabilitation, Attention)
	Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Automated Multi-Modal Dance Performance Assessment (Skill Assessment; Multi-Modal AQA, Dance, Contrastive AQA)
	Sedskill: Surgical Events Driven Method for Skill Assessment from Thoracoscopic Surgical Videos (Skill Assessment; Surgical AQA, Event-Driven)		MVR RGB
	Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Networks for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; GCN Hierarchical Modeling)
	Learning Semantics-Guided Representations for Scoring Figure Skating (Sports; Figure Skating, Multi-Modal AQA)		OlympicFS RGB
	Portable Vision-Based Gait Assessment for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Using an Attention-Based Lightweight CNN (Healthcare; Gait Assessment, Rehabilitation)
	Improving Action Quality Assessment with Across-Staged Temporal Reasoning on Imbalanced Data (Sports; Diving, Temporal Reasoning)
	Label-Reconstruction-Based Pseudo-Subscore Learning for Action Quality Assessment in Sporting Events (Sports; Pseudo-Subscore)
	Multi-Skeleton Structures Graph Convolutional Network for Action Quality Assessment in Long Videos (Sports; Figure Skating, Skeleton AQA)
	A Contrastive Learning Network for Performance Metric and Assessment of Physical Rehabilitation Exercises (Healthcare; Rehabilitation, Contrastive AQA)
	A Skeleton-Based Rehabilitation Exercise Assessment System with Rotation Invariance (Healthcare; Rehabilitation, Rotation Invariance)
	FineDiving: A Fine-Grained Dataset for Procedure-Aware Action Quality Assessment (Sports)		FineDiving RGB
	Likert Scoring with Grade Decoupling for Long-Term Action Assessment (Sports; Long-Term AQA)
	EGCN: An Ensemble-Based Learning Framework for Exploring Effective Skeleton-Based Rehabilitation Exercise Assessment (Healthcare; Rehabilitation, Skeleton AQA, Ensemble)
	Adaptive Action Assessment (Sports; Adaptive AQA, Graph-Based AQA)
	Action Quality Assessment with Temporal Parsing Transformer (Sports; Transformer)
	Domain Knowledge-Informed Self-Supervised Representations for Workout Form Assessment (Sports; Self-Supervised AQA)		Fitness-AQA RGB
	Pairwise Contrastive Learning Network for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Contrastive AQA)
	Surgical Skill Assessment Via Video Semantic Aggregation (Skill Assessment; Surgical AQA, Semantic Aggregation)	🌐
	Video-Based Surgical Skills Assessment Using Long Term Tool Tracking (Skill Assessment; Surgical AQA)
	Semi-Supervised Action Quality Assessment with Self-Supervised Segment Feature Recovery (Sports; Semi-Supervised AQA)
	Skeleton-Based Deep Pose Feature Learning for Action Quality Assessment on Figure Skating Videos (Sports; Figure Skating, Pose-Based AQA)
	Skeleton-Based Action Quality Assessment Via Partially Connected LSTM with Triplet Losses (Sports; Tai Chi, Skeleton AQA)
	Tai Chi Action Quality Assessment and Visual Analysis with A Consumer RGB-D Camera (Sports; Tai Chi)		TaiChi-24 RGB-D
	Graph Convolutional Networks for Assessment of Physical Rehabilitation Exercises (Healthcare; Rehabilitation, Skeleton AQA)
	TSA-Net: Tube Self-Attention Network for Action Quality Assessment (Sports)		FR-FS RGB
	Aifit: Automatic 3D Human-Interpretable Feedback Models for Fitness Training (Healthcare; Interpretable Feedback, Multi-Modal AQA)		Fit3D RGB
	Towards Unified Surgical Skill Assessment (Skill Assessment)	🌐
	Group-Aware Contrastive Regression for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Contrastive AQA)
	Skeleton-Based Human Action Evaluation Using Graph Convolutional Network for Monitoring Alzheimer’s Progression (Healthcare; Rehabilitation, Alzheimer's)
	Action Quality Assessment Using Siamese Network-Based Deep Metric Learning (Sports; Siamese AQA, Metric Learning)
	Action Quality Assessment with Ignoring Scene Context (Sports; Adversarial AQA, Scene-Invariant AQA)
	Learning and Fusing Multiple Hidden Substages for Action Quality Assessment (Sports)
	Piano Skills Assessment (Skill Assessment; Piano, Multi-Modal AQA)		PISA RGB
	EAGLE-EYE: Extreme-Pose Action Grader Using Detail Bird's-Eye View (Sports; Figure Skating, Gymnastics, Multi-Stream AQA)
	Hybrid Dynamic-Static Context-Aware Attention Network for Action Assessment in Long Videos (Sports; Long-Term AQA)		Rhythmic Gymnastics RGB
	Uncertainty-Aware Score Distribution Learning for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Uncertainty, Multi-Modal Score)
	An Asymmetric Modeling for Action Assessment (Sports; Asymmetric Interaction)		TASD-2 RGB
	Towards Accurate and Interpretable Surgical Skill Assessment: A Video-Based Method Incorporating Recognized Surgical Gestures and Skill Levels (Skill Assessment; Interpretable Feedback, Surgical AQA)
	Efficient and Robust Skeleton-Based Quality Assessment and Abnormality Detection in Human Action Performance (Healthcare; Abnormality Detection)
	Assessing Action Quality Via Attentive Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Networks (Sports; Attention)
	A Deep Learning Framework for Assessing Physical Rehabilitation Exercises (Healthcare; Rehabilitation)
	The Pros and Cons: Rank-Aware Temporal Attention for Skill Determination in Long Videos (Skill Assessment; Ranking)	🌐	BEST RGB
	What and How Well You Performed? A Multitask Learning Approach to Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Multitask Learning, Diving)		MTL-AQA RGB
	Action Assessment by Joint Relation Graphs (Sports; Pose, Graph)
	Manipulation-Skill Assessment from Videos with Spatial Attention Network (Skill Assessment; Attention, Manipulation)
	Surgical Skill Assessment on In-Vivo Clinical Data Via the Clearness of Operating Field (Healthcare; Surgical AQA)
	Learning to Score Figure Skating Sport Videos (Sports; Figure Skating)		Fis-V RGB
	Scoringnet: Learning Key Fragment for Action Quality Assessment with Ranking Loss in Skilled Sports (Skill Assessment; Key Fragments)
	The Kimore Dataset: Kinematic Assessment of Movement and Clinical Scores for Remote Monitoring of Physical Rehabilitation (Healthcare)		KIMORE RGB-D
	Action Quality Assessment across Multiple Actions (Sports; Multi-Action Dataset)	🌐	AQA-7 RGB
	Who's Better? Who's Best? Pairwise Deep Ranking for Skill Determination (Skill Assessment; Ranking)
	S3D: Stacking Segmental P3D for Action Quality Assessment (Sports; Diving)
	Am I A Baller? Basketball Performance Assessment from First-Person Videos (Sports; Basketball, Egocentric AQA)
	Learning to Score Olympic Events (Sports; Diving, Vault, Figure Skating)
	Relative Hidden Markov Models for Video-Based Evaluation of Motion Skills in Surgical Training (Skill Assessment)
	Assessing the Quality of Actions (Sports; Diving, Vault)
	JHU-ISI Gesture and Skill Assessment Working Set (JIGSAWS): A Surgical Activity Dataset for Human Motion Modeling (Skill Assessment)	🌐	JIGSAWS RGB

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