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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Posture Estimation from Tactile Signals Using a Masked Forward Diffusion Model.

Sanket Kachole, Bhagyashri Nayak, James Brouner, Ying Liu, Liucheng Guo, Dimitrios Makris

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Sanket KacholeSchool of Computer Science and Mathematics, Kingston University, London KT1 2EE, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1496-2070
Bhagyashri NayakSchool of Computer Science and Mathematics, Kingston University, London KT1 2EE, UK.
James BrounerDepartment of Applied and Human Sciences, Kingston University, London KT1 2EE, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7938-2803
Ying LiuTangi0 Ltd. (TG0), 73-75 Upper Richmond Road, London SW15 2SR, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2537-5429
Liucheng GuoTangi0 Ltd. (TG0), 73-75 Upper Richmond Road, London SW15 2SR, UK.ORCID 0009-0008-9419-4075
Dimitrios MakrisSchool of Computer Science and Mathematics, Kingston University, London KT1 2EE, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6170-0236

Funding

Innovate UK 10033778
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Utilizing tactile sensors embedded in intelligent mats is an attractive non-intrusive approach for human motion analysis. Interpreting tactile pressure 2D maps for accurate posture estimation poses significant challenges, such as dealing with data sparsity, noise interference, and the complexity of mapping pressure signals. Our approach introduces a novel dual-diffusion signal enhancement (DDSE) architecture that leverages tactile pressure measurements from an intelligent pressure mat for precise prediction of 3D body joint positions, using a diffusion model to enhance pressure data quality and a convolutional-transformer neural network architecture for accurate pose estimation. Additionally, we collected the pressure-to-posture inference technology (PPIT) dataset that relates pressure signals organized as a 2D array to Motion Capture data, and our proposed method has been rigorously evaluated on it, demonstrating superior accuracy in comparison to state-of-the-art methods.

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PostureTouchAlgorithmsDiffusionHumansNeural Networks, ComputerPressureconvolutional-transformer neural networkdiffusion modelsposture estimationtactile pressure maps

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PMID40871791
PMCPMC12389855

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