GaitDynamics: A Foundation Model for Predicting Human Gait Dynamics
Data driven-models are a promising solution to quantify gait dynamics with less cost and time compared with traditional lab-based experiments.
Typical data-driven models are limited to a specific downstream task with fixed inputs and outputs. GaitDynamics is the first generative foundation model to quantify gait dynamics for different gait patterns. It is a flexible, scalable solution that is able
to predict both motions and forces for human walking and running with partial or no input data. Postdoctoral fellow Tian Tan and colleagues from the NIH-funded
Restore and
Mobilize Centers and the
Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance developed the model and have made it open-source.
Access GaitDynamics code
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Join a Workshop on Large-Scale Biomechanics at RehabWeek 2025
May 12-16, 2025, Chicago, IL, USA
The
Restore and
Mobilize Centers are running a workshop at RehabWeek, "OpenCap and AddBiomechanics: Tools for Large-Scale Biomechanics Studies.” Join the workshop
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hundreds of participants for movement screening, injury prevention, and monitoring rehabilitation.
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Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025
The
Reproducible Rehabilitation (ReproRehab) program
is an NIH-funded R25 research educational program designed to build a sustainable national workforce of rehabilitation researchers equipped with basic data science skills to improve reproducibility in research. Applications to become a ReproRehab fellow are
now open. ReproRehab fellows participate in:
(1) the in-person
Reproducible Rehabilitation Research Summit,
(2) a hands-on virtual bootcamp where rehabilitation researchers learn data science and open science skills to integrate into their own research
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OpenSim is supported by the
Mobilize Center,
an NIH Biomedical Technology Resource Center (grant P41 EB027060); the Restore Center,
an NIH-funded Medical Rehabilitation Research Resource Network Center (grant P2C HD101913); and the
Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
through the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation.
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