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Vision-Language Models Show Promise in Judging Olympic Diving

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Researchers have explored the potential of vision-language models (VLMs) for assessing the quality of Olympic diving performances. A proposed framework leverages VLMs' semantic reasoning and phase-level sub-scores, combined with TF-IDF vectorization and ensemble learning, to predict final competition scores. While standalone VLMs showed limited correlation, the ensemble approach achieved a Spearman correlation of 0.67, indicating that VLM-generated explanations are valuable for sports performance evaluation. AI

IMPACT VLMs show potential as assistive tools for explainable and semi-automated sports performance evaluation.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing a new methodology for action quality assessment using VLMs. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Vision-Language Models Show Promise in Judging Olympic Diving

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Henry O. Velesaca, David Freire-Obregon, Luigi Miranda, Abel Reyes-Angulo ·

    Can Vision-Language Models Judge Olympic Diving? From Reasoning to Scores in Zero-Shot Action Quality Assessment

    arXiv:2609.19354v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated action quality assessment (AQA) in Olympic sports remains a challenging task due to the complexity of human motion and the subjectivity inherent in expert judging. This work evaluates the capability of open-source Vision…

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