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Dual-Path Region-Guided Attention Network for Ground Reaction Force and Moment Regression

Machine Learning 2025-12-05 v1 Signal Processing

Abstract

Accurate estimation of three-dimensional ground reaction forces and moments (GRFs/GRMs) is crucial for both biomechanics research and clinical rehabilitation evaluation. In this study, we focus on insole-based GRF/GRM estimation and further validate our approach on a public walking dataset. We propose a Dual-Path Region-Guided Attention Network that integrates anatomy-inspired spatial priors and temporal priors into a region-level attention mechanism, while a complementary path captures context from the full sensor field. The two paths are trained jointly and their outputs are combined to produce the final GRF/GRM predictions. Conclusions: Our model outperforms strong baseline models, including CNN and CNN-LSTM architectures on two datasets, achieving the lowest six-component average NRMSE of 5.78% on the insole dataset and 1.42% for the vertical ground reaction force on the public dataset. This demonstrates robust performance for ground reaction force and moment estimation.

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@article{arxiv.2512.05030,
  title  = {Dual-Path Region-Guided Attention Network for Ground Reaction Force and Moment Regression},
  author = {Xuan Li and Samuel Bello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05030},
  year   = {2025}
}